Hi everyone! It’s Friday. Every Friday I take the time to take stock of how I did in completing my goals for the week. Before I sat down to assess my week this morning, I went for a walk around the Avon River next to where I live. I couldn’t help but think…
Sticking to writing goals can be challenging when life gets busy. We always have too much to do every day. And there seems to be no time to just sit and write. What’s worse, we may be tired and stressed out by the time we start writing. This is especially the case if we work…
Do you reward yourself when you complete a writing task? Do you make your writing life interesting so that you will be motivated to complete your manuscripts? Setting up small rewards every time you finish a task is one way to motivate yourself to get some writing done, especially if it’s hard or you don’t…
No matter what kind of writer you want to become, there are ways for you to be most successful and reach your goals quicker. Life gets in the way for many writers. There is always more to be done than write. Yet, we have to commit to our daily writing in order to complete our…
Many of us have a hard time to write every day. We have a difficult time to even make some space for our writing. Yet, if we are serious about our writing, we must show up and write regularly. In other words, as the saying goes, writers write. Here are some tips to help you…
Spring is a season of growth, change, possibility, and renewal. Have you ever thought of using these ideas and plug them into your writing life? Spring can be such a great time to renewal and refresh your goals. Many of us have stale goals. They don’t seem to go anywhere, and they bore us. Even…
Over my many years of coaching writers, I have discovered that most writers fall into two different categories when it comes to their writing: they either do too much or too little. Either way, we can’t be productive. Writers who do too much will register for every online workshop they find to get better at…
This is a unique dramatic story that takes the reader through recesses of human angst and journeys to places where intrigue lie. It is a very different story, one of which I have never read before. Not only is it written in the third person, but the characters are drawn very unusually too. It makes…
It’s hard to believe, but we’re approaching the end of the first quarter. Did you get everything done that you promised yourself in the first quarter? If you haven’t, perhaps it’s time to become razor focused on completing your one or two main goals for the first quarter. You wouldn’t want to start your next…
There’s a lot of focus these days on meditation and mindfulness. We all seem to feel overwhelmed and unfocused. We tend to overdo it and overstress. We are overconnected on the internet and we overdo it every day. What if this mindless state was also negatively impacting our prayer life? How many of us come…