You can have lots of brilliant ideas, you can craft a golden phrase, but unless you can do all of that consistently, efficiently, and in the face of a largely indifferent world, you will struggle to get your book finished and published.
There are lots of psychological challenges involved in the writing life. Here are some thoughts on how to manage them:
- ‘From Pipedream to Publication’ – some useful takeaways
- A marathon of sprints
- Are you honest about your writing goals?
- Buzzing with creative back-to-school energy? Time for a plan…
- Choosing what to commit to
- Convention comedown and writer’s despair
- Coping with self-doubt during saggy middles
- Cultivating inspiration
- Editing, revising, redrafting – how to get out of the loop of doom (part 1)
- Eight low-cost ways to improve your editing skills
- Fairy tales and the lessons they offer writers
- Finding the willpower to finish the first draft
- How to avoid the new year’s resolutions blues
- How to find the right literary agent for your book and you
- How to find the time to write when you don’t have any time
- How to handle rejection
- How to overcome (or, at least, sneak past) writer’s block
- How to persuade yourself to write every day
- I’ll do it tomorrow
- On Fear