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How I Became a Substack Bestseller
Three goals I've met this past year, how it changed my experience with writing this weekly newsletter, and how I decided to offer paid subscriptions
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Mary Carroll Moore
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Creating a Sustainable Writing Practice
An interview with New York Times bestselling author and @1000words creator Jami Attenberg
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A Different Way to Work with Writing Goals
Looking for qualities not quantities can shift your entire experience of goal setting
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Ta-Da! My New Novel and Its Beautiful Cover
With so many great cover choices, how do you decide? Choosing primary images based on theme, setting, main event, and message.
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Organizing Your Writing Life: Practice versus Perfect
Five elements for a sustainable writing habit
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Organizing Your Writing Life: Tools
The first of a three-part exploration of how successful writers stay organized so they can create better
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Freeing Yourself from Your Own Legacy as a Writer
How Do We Bust Past Unconscious Limits on Our Creativity?
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Entrainment: What You Hold Close, Creates Who You Are
An immutable law that cautions us to choose our influences--and our teachers--wisely. Something to consider, this new year.
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A Letter to the Inner Critic
How to stop the self-sabotage in your writing life this week--and forever!
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It's All Too Much! (Risk, That Is)
Recognizing and Balancing the Risk Quotient in Your Writing (and Your Life)
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Writing as the Ultimate Heart-Healer: Restoring a Sense of Wonder
How I use my writing life to keep my regular life sane--plus the joy of being a lifelong learner
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First Sunday Q&A: Working with a Structural Analysis Chart
I taught this chart for years, used it myself, and marveled at how it answered the most gnarly structure dilemmas in my writing
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