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  • Things that are good for your brain 🧠

    Some things are just good for your brain.

    No matter what’s going on inside it, what illnesses or challenges or mental health issues we may have — some activities are magic.

    Like…Walking among trees. Moving your body. Human contact. Journalling.

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  • Doing a nice thing

    Sometimes I work the pole. Or the trapeze.

    Meaning, gutterface, that I practice and teach trapeze and pole dancing and it’s really good fun.

    One of the funnest parts, for me, is watching people go from “I can’t do this” to “I’m doing it I’m doing it” to “wow that looks amazing.”

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  • How to become a professional lurker 👀🙈

    According to Hootsuite, businesses spend about $1,600 on Facebook ads A MONTH!

    There are good, smart, and seemingly rich people out there paying Meta a mortgage payment to ensure they can keep their business at the forefront of everyone's minds.

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  • Abracadabra! 🪄✨

    One of the reasons people don’t write books

    (and I know this to be true because they tell me)

    is that the idea of writing a book is just Too Big.

    And I totally understand that; I’ve written several books and they are Very Big. But I write for a living; it’s literally what I do.

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  • I want to write my bloody first draft

    “You’re an author? That’s so cool!”

    “I self-published it, it’s not in Waterstones or anything,” I replied.

    I had this conversation — paraphrased, natch — a few years ago, just after I wrote my first book. I felt uncomfortable with the praise, like publishing it myself was pure vanity.

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  • Tantrums to Titles 👠

    Tantrums to Titles: that was the name of the talk I gave yesterday at Circle Networks Live24.

    I stood up in front of a couple of hundred people…

    Shared some of my favourite book writing wisdom…

    And was beyond delighted when so many people said their big takeaway from the day was that they wanted to write a book of their own!

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  • Googly eyes on the side of a caucasion hand

    Ever wondered if your book idea (or you) is too... weird?

    Like — you look at all the nonfiction and business books out there, and yours doesn’t seem to fit?

    Maybe your face doesn’t fit, or your voice seems too brash, or your story seems a bit too out there compared to others in your niche...

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  • Forget the word count and just write

    Writing isn’t a measuring exercise you know.

    Nobody cares that your book has 4,392 pages, Gerald.

    Actually, they do, and they probs won’t read it because that sounds like a CHORE.

    Look: whoever told you a nonfiction book has to have 300 pages and 90,000 words was WRONG.

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  • 8 weeks to turn “idea” into “manuscript” 💭 📖

    You see yet another “viral” post on LinkedIn or Instagram or wherever you choose to doomscroll in which someone says something so eyeball-grindingly obvious and shallow about your area of expertise you CANNOT EVEN and yet they’ve got 1,826 likes and 97 comments.

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  • What people THINK writing a book is like… 🌸 💀

    Come with me. Lemme lift the tablecloth and usher you into the den.

    Because you might be wondering: what’s it actually like to write a book?

    Well, tbh I don’t know what it’s like for you… but I can tell what it ISN’T like.

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