Chandler Bolt 7-Figure Writing Coach — The Writing Coach 041
Welcome to The Writing Coach. On this podcast, I speak with the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors that help writers and authors create their art, build their audience, and sell their work. In episode 41 of The Writing Coach, I speak with Chandler Bolt. Chandler is the best selling author of six books, including Book Launch and…
Reedsy Live – Training Video and Transcript
Reedsy is a very cool community that connects authors with freelance editors and designers. Earlier this month, I was invited to host a live training session on Reedsy’s Facebook page. I took the opportunity to talk about the importance of, and how to go about creating, a regular writing habit. Live streaming is always fun, and…
Life Will Always Get in the Way (& that’s Okay!)
As I type this, we’re one week into National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). If you’re lucky, things went great for you during this first week and you’re on-track to achieving your NaNo goals. For a vast majority of people, however, something happened that served as a set-back. If you’re in this later group, right now…
Debbie Drum on How to Get Book Reviews – The Writing Coach 32
Welcome to The Writing Coach. On this podcast, I speak with the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors that help writers and authors create their art, build their audience, and sell their work. In episode 32 of The Writing Coach, I speak with Debbie Drum. Debbie is an author and an expert in content creation, an…
Who Said it Would Be Easy?
Aspiring authors will say things to me like, “My writing isn’t coming along as easily as it should be.” They’ll say, “Something’s wrong: I’m just not having fun working on this book anymore.” Sometimes they’ll even take the lack of productivity or the absence of fun to mean they should stop writing. Stop writing? Woah,…
Why Writers Need to be Tightrope Walkers
I’ve never been a fan of “balance”. When I gave up on the government-recommended “balanced diet” and instead ate an unbalanced diet that consisted primarily of vegetables and meet, I lost weight, gained muscle, felt healthier, and performed athletically at a higher level. That’s just one example of why I’ve always believed obsessive focus and dedication is…
What’s Your “Voice of Fire”?
I’m lucky to live in Ottawa, Ontario, home of Canada’s National Art Gallery. In 1989 the newly opened Art Gallery purchased a work by abstract painter Barnett Newman titled, “Voice of Fire”. Originally created as a commission for Expo 67, a celebration of Canada’s centennial, the painting is 18 feet long and consists of three…
How to Write Faster: 5 Books to Speed Up Your Writing Productivity
In my recent article, How to Become a Freelance Writer, I argued that the faster a freelancer writer can produce work, the more money they will ultimately make. It’s not any different for fiction authors. The more books you write and publish, the more books you will sell, and the quicker you will build your author…
How to Turn Any Ebook into an Audiobook
I’m a huge fan of audiobooks. I spend two hours a day commuting to and from my day job, and audiobooks allow me to turn that otherwise wasted transit time into productive reading time. I try to cycle between a fiction book, a book on business, and a book on writer’s craft. Unfortunately, not every…
Why I’m Self-Publishing My Next Book
I’ve decided to self-publish my upcoming novel, M School. This will be my sixth self-published book. You might think the decision to go indie yet again was an easy one. It wasn’t. I seriously considered seeking an agent and publisher for this novel. Having gone the self-published route in the past, I’m going in with…
