In the first class of my interview series with Enneagram and story development expert Jeff Lyons (recordings no longer available), we talked about "The Secrets of the Enneagram Most Writers Are...
Using the Enneagram for Story Development
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The Power of the Enneagram
I've been a follower of the Enneagram since 1998. The Enneagram is a powerful system that is highly useful for understanding your personality and inner motivations. My work colleague told me about...
Bored with your writing project? Or terrified to face it?
One of the cleverest smokescreens in writing is creative apathy. This is the point with a project where you suddenly get bored or lose interest in your writing. It tends to crop up at key stages in...
Sci-Fi Circuit: Sci-Fi Storytelling, Part II — Structure & Budget
My conversation continues with screenwriter Chris Soth, this time about structure and budget as it relates to sci-fi, in part II of our interview.
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Reward yourself for writing
In my writing community, one of the things writers commonly bring up as a question is how to reward themselves for meeting their writing goals. We have a list of questions we answer on our site,...
Sci-Fi Circuit: Sci-Fi Storytelling, Part I — Story Type, Mistakes, & Big Ideas
I reached out to Chris Soth — a master of structure — to talk sci-fi and the mistakes he commonly sees sci-fi screenwriters making.
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This Writer’s Life: How 5 Minutes of Daily Writing Can Change Your Life
Writers who tend to join my writing community — and get the most out of it — often have both a deep call to write (whether they're doing it consistently or not) and a specific project they want to...
The stages of a writing project
Something that's helped me when taking on a longer writing project is understanding the natural ups and downs of the writing process. Now when I know I'm in an "up" or a "down", I don't take either...
Seeing it through to the end
So many writers I've spoken to recently are talking about finishing; many at that point of having just finished a major draft or putting the finishing touches on one. It got me to thinking about the...
Writing even when overwhelmed
As writers and creatives with a certain sensitivity to life, we can get easily overwhelmed, which can be paralyzing, deeply uncomfortable, and hard to break free from. Let's talk about why that...
Set your truth free
One of the struggles writers often face is the fear that comes up around sharing the truth through our work. It might be the truth about what we think or about who we are. Or perhaps it is about...
Two conversations about taking a day off from writing
Two inner conversations about taking the day off from writing, in which we explore the inner workings of the procrastinator and the recovered procrastinator. :) Observe. Conversation 1. The...