What Are You Willing to Leave Unfinished?
Today’s guest post is coming from Jen Cross, author of Writing Ourselves Whole: Using the Power of Your Own Creativity to Recover and Heal from Sexual Trauma. Jen is a brilliant writer who’s led transformative writing workshops through her organization Writing Ourselves Whole since 2002. I am so honored Jen took the time to share […]
Writing Progress Does NOT Always Equal Word Count
This week’s guest post is coming to you from a fellow writing coach, Anna-Marie O’Brien. Anna-Marie describes herself as a “little bit OCD+ADD+ESP and an INFJ.” And I can tell you from experience that she’s easily one of the most intuitive people I’ve ever met. If you’re looking for someone to help get you unstuck […]
Writers and Self-Judgment: Why It Happens and How to Fight It
Out of the entire world population, writers are the harshest on themselves when it comes to self-judgment. No, I haven’t done a study or anything, but it wouldn’t surprise me if this was true. Based on the emails I get from writers, and the blog posts I read written by writers, I can see clearly […]
Writers with Imposter Syndrome: You Are Not Alone
You are such a fraud. As a writer, how many times have you heard your inner critic say that to you whenever someone compliments your work? What if your work comes up for an award or you get an awesome review from a total stranger? How about the times you hear that phrase just because […]
What It’s Like to Be a Female Author Who Writes Transgressive Fiction
Every time I tell someone I write transgressive fiction the first question I get is, “What’s transgressive fiction?” If we’re talking in person, I explain it as best I can (usually not very well). But if we’re emailing I send them the definition cut and pasted from Wikipedia: Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature […]