How to Not Make Your Subscription Site More Complicated Than Necessary
There’s a rush right now for authors to create a subscription site, especially if they write erotic romance, erotica, or other works that are not welcome on Patreon or many other platforms. I am here for it! I am loving it! And I am cheering you on! The dust has...
How To Cultivate Subtlety When Writing With Purpose
When someone thinks of their life’s purpose, they imagine some big, bold undertaking, a passion project that reverberates for years after someone’s gone. And yet, our purpose, and especially the purpose we put into our writing, doesn’t have to have...
What Political Texts Taught Me About Author Newsletters
A common concern among authors is how often to send their newsletter. They want to keep readers informed, but they don’t want to bombard them. This goes hand-in-hand with the worries over how many times to post on social media. Again, authors don’t want to...Finding Sustainable Writing With Your Creative Neurotype
There’s a lot of talk in the publishing world today, at least in some quarters, about finding a sustainable way to create your author career. I’m all for that! I am one hundred percent behind sustainability as a path to being an author today. But in order...
Are you the consumer or what’s being sold?
The leading cause of enshittification of the internet is that the very people who use services like social media or crowdfunding platforms are now what’s being sold–not the service itself. We’ve gotten away from selling goods and products to selling...
When To Think About Your Author Mindset
Mindset is one of those things that people talk a lot about, but they don’t give a lot of specifics on. You have a lot to handle when you’re an independent author. When do you actually work on your mindset and is it something you need to focus on all the...
Episode 25: Examining Shame and the Neurodivergent Brain
This week I go a bit deeper into the blog posts I wrote reviewing the book How To Keep House While Drowning and my post about my procrastinated (but now finished!) yard project. I’ll break down the four things that are necessary for shame, why shame doesn’t always...
Feed Your Creativity By Changing Up What You Write
Is it okay to work on more than one project at once? That’s a common question I’m seeing in writing groups these days, whether it’s talking about novels, serials, or other forms of writing. There’s a common belief that you have to write one...