Joan Dempsey on Revising with Confidence – The Writing Coach 038
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 38 of The Writing Coach, I speak with Joan Dempsey. Joan Dempsey, author of the forthcoming novel This Is How It…
Rachel Smets on Awakening Your Confidence – The Writing Coach 037
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 37 of The Writing Coach, I speak with Rachel Smets. Rachel is an author, speaker, and personal confidence coach dedicated to…
Karen Dimmick on Mind Hacks for Writers – The Writing Coach 035
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 35 of The Writing Coach, I speak with Karen Dimmick. Karen is a writer, reader, world-traveller, eternal student and passionate observer…
Susan Friedmann on How to Monetize Your Book – The Writing Coach 034
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 34 of The Writing Coach, I speak with Susan Friedmann. Susan is a Certified Speaking Professional and a veteran business and niche marketing…
5 Reasons You Failed to Win National Novel Writing Month (and What to Do about It)
To listen to this blog post in audio format, click the play button below: National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has come to a close for another year. A fraction of the writers (around 14%) who participated reached their goal of writing 50,000 words in 30 days. The vast majority of writers (the other 86%) failed…
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…
THIS is How a Writing Coach Walks His Talk
Listen to the audio version of this article here: Writing is hard. DAMN hard. As a writing coach, my job is to make it just a little bit easier by teaching you what I know. Every time I hit publish on a blog post or release a new podcast episode it’s with the intention of…
How to Prepare for National Novel Writing Month – The Writing Coach 030
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. Next month, thousands of writers from all around the world will attempt to write a novel in thirty days as part of National Novel…
Sarah Werner, Host of the Write Now Podcast – The Writing Coach 029
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 this episode, I speak with Sarah Werner. Sarah is a writer, a columnist for Forbes, and the host of Write Now, a popular podcast…
You Aren’t a Genius
You aren’t a genius. You weren’t born more talented or more intelligent than other writers out there. Words don’t flow from your pen magically. You aren’t a once-in-a-generation wunderkind. That’s okay. You know what the geniuses do? They kill themselves. Seriously. Like all the time. You and I weren’t born with the gifts of the…
