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02-06 What's On Your DON'T List?
Most people have a to do list. A DON’T list can be just as important. Writing is a deep work; your energy and time for writing is worth protecting. We’ll share the things we’ve chosen - on purpose - to NOT do to help...
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02-05 How To Make Money Writing
How is a part-time - or even full-time - income from your writing possible? You have more options than you realize. Here’s what’s worked for us, how we started, what we changed, and why. It’s an adventure - put your...
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02-04 What's Your One Most Important Thing?
When your writing life feels complicated, having One Most Important Thing to focus on can be sanity saving. What’s most important? Is it writing skill? A certain social media? Your platform? Your niche? It’s different...
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02-03 You Might Be a HopeWriter If
Your hopewriter calling is not just writing - it’s a calling to spread hope, to connect, and to be relentlessly helpful, without sacrificing your life and family. But, the writing life can have so many pieces,...
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02-02 How to Never Self-Promote Again
Here’s the end of that icky self-promotion feeling, the end of thinking that God should maybe market your writing without you. We long to get our message out, but we’re uncomfortable with what we think it requires. So...
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02-01 How to Find Time to Write
Thirty minutes to end that ‘I don’t have time to write’ feeling. You’ll change how you think about time, and get practical tips for gaining time to write. You’ll hear how to plan your writing time with your family,...
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HW 01-09 How Summer Changes the Writing Life
AKA: How to take a break. How to make the most of your summer, or of any time you’re able to take a break. Crazy as it seems, it can take courage, planning, and effort to rest - but it’s worth it. Just planning a...
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HW 01-08 Learn From Our Idiot Moves
Real stories we’re embarrassed by today - that seemed like such good ideas at the time. BUT we can learn from it, and laugh at ourselves, and use it to motivate ourselves, right? Brian's story of how NOT to get an...
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HW 01-07 Overwhelmed? How to Save Your Writing Life
Writing can take a lot out of you. How can you move forward and be creative when you feel like you’ve been doing things a certain way forever? How can you make the most of your writing energy? The answer: You need to...
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HW 01-06 Steal Our Genius Moves
Ideas we’ve tried for living and working that have turned into genius moves that help us as writers, and that that have made life easier, better, and more fulfilling. Steal ours or come up with your own! You never...
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HW 01-05 Should You Blog?
Should you blog? Is blogging dead? Can blogging help your goals as a writer? If so, how? How has blogging changed? What’s the best way to use a blog? If Emily and Myquillyn started a blog today, what would they do?...
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HW 01-04 Unlikely Writing Teachers
Here’s what we can learn from
unlikely writing teachers like Taylor Swift, Bob Marley, Stacy
London from ‘What Not to Wear,’ Lorne Michaels from SNL,
philosopher Marcus Aurelius, and more. Writing school is all...
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