Creatively Blocked? You Have the Power to Free Yourself
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 6/5/2023 Theme, 8 of Swords. Swords is the element of Air in the realm of mind, thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, and communication. Eight is a number of movement, in this case, blocked movement. If you feel creatively blocked this week, remember that you have the power to free yourself. Trust […]
Breaking the Writing (or Creativity) Rules that Bind You–Time
“I don’t have enough time.” I hear this statement often as a creativity and book coach. How can you change it to “I have enough time…even if it’s not as much as I would like”? What, in your mind, is enough time to write or do your creative work? An hour? Several hours? A whole […]
5 Favorite Ways to Move Out of Stalled
I’m about to tell you something really embarrassing. For the last few months, I’ve been stalled on my manuscript. Yep, the book coach was floundering. I had 70,000 words written but couldn’t figure out what the next 10,000 or so had to be in order to get to the last 10,000. I knew what was […]
Are Your Tools Your Rules?
At the recent Writer’s Digest Annual Conference, Tim Grahl, author and book marketer for well-known authors like Dan Pink, spoke about building platform and connecting authentically with readers. He advised his listeners to not confuse the tools of social media with being the rules. I straightened in my seat when I heard that because several […]
How to Move Under, Over or Through Resistance
“Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance. As powerful as is our soul’s call to realization, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it.” ~ Steven Pressfield I have a confession… Several agents are interested in my current work-in-progress, a somewhat dark fantasy romance. You’d think I would have had […]