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40. Writing for the Long Haul with Annie Downs
Annie Downs shares how to be a writer for the long haul, and how failure has helped her be successful. She’s definitely in it for the long haul. She’s written multiple books in the last 10-12 years - one of them has...
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39. Writing Memoir with Marion Roach Smith
How do you write for readers who don’t know you or care about your story? What’s in it for them? Marion Roach Smith has written and taught about memoir for over 20 years. She says, “Memoir is not about you and it’s...
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03-07 How To Capture and Organize All Your Awesome Writing Ideas
It’s easy to have a million ideas. But what do you do with them? Where do you keep them? How do you organize them? How do you know if your ideas add up to anything valuable? How do you know if it’s a book or -...
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03-06 Plan Your Perfect Writing Day
How do you write consistently in the middle of the unpredictability and responsibilities of your everyday life? Managing yourself - knowing how to use your time as a writer, and running your own writing days - is a...
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03-05 Ian Cron - Enneagram for Writers
Let’s get to know our writing strengths! “The Road Back to You” author Ian Cron helps us see how the Enneagram personality assessment can help us better take advantage of our strengths, help us understand our built-in...
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03-04 Book Launch Secrets Google Won't Tell You
If writing a book is important to you, sooner or later you’ll find yourself confronting a book launch. You need more than tips you find on google - you need to know how you can launch a book yet remain a human being...
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03-03 How to Know When to Change Course
So you’ve been writing for awhile but you feel like you’re not really growing an audience, like nobody really cares. Should you change what you write about? And what would you change to? How can you get to where you...
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03-02 How to Find the Perfect Writing Mentor
Thinking you need a writing mentor is way easier than actually finding one. And there are questions you may not have considered: Are you even ready to be mentored? Are you already being mentored without realizing it?...
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03-01 The Million Dollar Email Question
You’d never guess it’s controversial but it is. Once a month in the Hope*Writers Facebook group a friendly debate pops up about the best way to let readers know you’ve written a new blog post. What do you do when the...
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02-09 Logan Wolfram - Don't Let Your Voice Get Lost
What’s it like to be busy and successful at doing good things that are some people’s dreams, but that come with an unknown cost? Logan was chief steward and curator of the Allume conference for four years. Then she...
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02-08 Ann Voskamp - Inside the Writer's Heart
Ann Voskamp shares: what practical writing time looks like for her; how she makes writing a low pressure spiritual discipline; writers she loves and how they influence her writing; the disadvantages and overwhelming...
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02-07 Q&A's Live from the H*W Workshop
How to get more readers. How to start an online writing encouragement group. How blogging and book writing go together. Ideas for helpful books and courses. And more!
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