Wherever you are on your book writing adventure, you’ll find what you need here…
What to do if you’re just starting out on your Author Adventure: planning, preparation, and dealing with your Inner Dickhead
Find a daffodil and look at it. Look at it until you remember how beautiful the world can be.
Stand in the sunshine and let the sun soak into your face, until you remember that there are more people who want the world to be kind and gentle than those who want to spread fear.
Then, pull your socks up, buckaroo, and get writing.
You’re a writer. You are, or you wouldn’t be here reading this.
So I have a question for you today: how do you feel about big tech AI companies stealing your work?
If you’re in the UK, please read on — then take action.
My face is one giant grin right now because I’m reading the reviews coming in from yesterday’s Find Your Funnybone microworkshop.
Julia’s starts with:
“The “find your funny bone” workshop had all the elements of a perfect workshop…”
Do you know what your most powerful weapon is in fighting the current rise of fascist ideas and literally saving the world?
It’s your brain. Your voice. Your ideas.
The words you use and how you put them together to subvert and combat misinformation, cruelty, and outright lies.
3 pieces of writing advice you may want to put in the bin — and what to try instead…
Have you ever created something and then just thought it’s the best thing you’ve ever done?
That's sort of how I feel about MicroBook Magic.
Back in November 2022, when the world was starting to get back to normal after all the Covid lockdowns, I realised something was changing.
Beauty lies in the gaps. In the imperfections.
Because the imperfections are what makes life interesting.
The way the trapeze spins slightly faster than you were anticipating, so your movement quality changes almost imperceptibly and surprisingly, and your face makes a different shape to the one you were planning — but it works.
One of my MicroBook Magicians asked me this week — what if I don’t feel like planning today? What if I just want to dive right in? I want to write write write but I know I need to research some stuff!
And to that I say: HURRAH!
Fill yer boots, because there is no wrong way to write a book.
Progress is never linear.
It never takes us in a straight line from bad to good to excellent.
It’s a wiggle.
I’d like to think the wiggle trends upwards but we have to give it time to do that. Two data points aren’t enough, because that gives us the illusion of a straight line but it’s not, really.
When literally everyone with a megaphone on social media tells us we must be authentic, our true and unedited selves, or we’ll fail at business, life, and the 100m relay, try this instead:
Don’t.
Nobody wants our 100% true and unedited and authentic selves.
Sometimes I get so many big feelings I worry that I actually will explode.
Like on Tuesday this week after my MicroBook Magic live call.
It’s structured so that my clients can send me their writing and ask for specific feedback, or ask questions.
I am currently obsessed with the TV show New Amsterdam.
It’s fabulous brain-out beautiful people in unlikely storylines telly.
But it also gets me thinking about perspectives, and how we badly need stories from people who don’t look, sound or live like us.
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