Making A Leap of Faith & Wonder
Am I Being a Perfectionist With My Writing?
How Do I Find the Theme For My Script?
How Can I Stop Second-Guessing Myself as a Writer?
How Can I Step More Fully Into My Writer’s Identity?
How Can I Boost My Confidence & Stretch Farther as a Writer?
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to a reader about having confidence and stretching farther as a writer: “I think it's my confidence. I feel completely sure that I don't know...
How Can I Balance Writing with (a Busy) Life?
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to two readers in response to their submissions to a recent reader survey I conducted. Their comments and questions coalesced around balancing...
How Can I Deal With Distractions From Writing?
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to two readers in response to their submissions to a recent reader survey I conducted. Their comments and questions coalesced around dealing...
Why Am I Stalled With Writing?
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to a writer who’s commented about feeling like they’ve stalled around writing. "I’ve made so much progress with my draft but… I’ve just...
What Is the Purpose of Writing?
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to a few readers in one article, in response to their submissions to my recent survey about the classes, workshops, and programs I teach....
7 Strategies for Dealing with Procrastination and Self-Criticism
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to a writer about overcoming procrastination and dealing with self-criticism: “I need to overcome my procrastination. I am trying to write a...
The magic of “sideways drift” and longer writing days
When I first started writing fiction regularly (screenwriting, specifically), our first child was quite young — like 3 ½. I really had to "steal" time to make writing happen, mostly from my own...