I’ve been blogging since 2009. I’ve read thousands of blog posts and written hundreds myself. I’ve experimented with different formats and found a lot of success in my career thanks to the practice of blogging. If it wasn’t for my “blog,” I wouldn’t be living my dream of becoming an author and professional speaker. This…
On Writing
A collection of lessons, tools, and techniques on writing.
Write Every Day
Well, with some exceptions, I try to write every day, and it’s easier that way . . . And I try to stop—to end the day, knowing where I am going to pick up. So when I come back to sit down at my desk again, I don’t think, “Oh, now, what the devil do…
A 1% Better Writer
What if we approached each project asking ourselves: “How can I make this 1% better? This is a great growth mindset question. Today, if I were to sit down to work on my book and think about the ways I can make it 1% better, I would be more willing to put in the grunt…
Identify Your Blogging Villain
Steven Pressfield started a series on his blog titled “Start with the Villain.” I haven’t written any fiction yet, but it sounds like great advice. It got me thinking this morning. “Start with the villain” is great advice for non-fiction writing, too. In fact, Pressfield is well known for his incredible work of non-fiction in…
TK
You have to finish the first draft of your book as fast as you can. The challenge to finishing fast is that you can get stuck on something you need to come back to and research or rewrite. When you are racing to “The End,” you want to finish fast. Stopping to shift from “writing…
