Category Archives: Writing Challenges
Memoir Writing #2: How I Stopped Resisting the Calling to Write a Memoir (and You Can, Too)
Life always presents compelling reasons not to write your book. Time. Responsibilities. Family. Your job as a writer is to say yes, and write your book anyway. Continue reading
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One Simple Step to Shift Writing Overwhelm Into Writing Ease
When you start writing a book or come back to a writing after a hiatus, do you jump right in or does writing feel daunting or overwhelming? Bring yourself into the present. Continue reading
I’m back. Read what happened…
I wrote in my post that I’ve been on a grand medical odyssey. That mind/body/spirit journey took me away from writing, teaching, working with clients and much of “life as I know it,” starting in late October until now. The … Continue reading
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The Best Way to Start Writing a Book
Many would-be authors don’t write their book because they do not know how to start. They think they need to outline or write from beginning to end. Think again. Here is the secret. Continue reading
Following Your Calling to Write: An Interview with Gregg Levoy, author of Callings
A calling to write is an urging from the deep self telling you the life course correction to make to align with your purpose. It’s a message to change your life. Continue reading
Join the Writing Gratitude Challenge
Imagine my shock as I was writing my book the other day when after years of using gratitude as a practice in my life, I realized how seldom I used it for writing the book. I have now created a writing gratitude challenge to celebrate what I value about writing. Want to join me? Continue reading
How Long Does It Take To Write A Book? Part 2 of The Lure of the Book in One Week Club
With all the emphasis in our world on writing books fast, writers can feel bad, guilty if they can’t or don’t complete a book in three months or one year. Continue reading
Writing Books That Transform Lives Interactive Online Writing Workshop
The Writing Books That Transform Lives interactive eCourse with Alissa Lukara begins Monday, March 5. And to receive the early registration offer, you need to sign up by Thursday, March 1. This online writing workshop supports you to jumpstart your … Continue reading
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What Do You and Meryl Streep Have in Common as Artists? Read on . . .
Self-doubt. Most writers face it at some point – then repeat visit it throughout their writing journeys.
You know this voice. It may whisper or rant words like:
–My writing is not good enough. Not universal enough. No one is interested in my perspective. My story is too ordinary. Too extraordinary. Too controversial. Not controversial enough. No one will believe it.
Welcome to the world of the writer – of most creative people. Heck. Of most people. Self-doubt comes with the territory of being human. Before you publish your book, articles, poems or essays. Even after you are an established author.
I have come to see it as one of the writing rites of passages every writer and creative person faces at some level – no matter how successful you are. On an Oprah Winfrey interview with Meryl Streep, Meryl admitted she experiences self-doubt
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