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148. When (& How) to Ask for a Deadline Extension
Your deadline is fast approaching, but you still have a lot of work left to do on your novel. Should you ask for more time or power through? What will your editor think if you need more time?
And if you DO decide you...
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147. Author Goal Setting: Reframed
Happy New Year! Have you set goals for the upcoming year yet? If so, there’s a good chance you made yourself a list of project to-dos rather than setting a goal that focuses on how you want to EXPERIENCE your author...
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146. Emotional Time Travel (Embodying Future Success)
Do you go after writerly milestones, expecting to feel happy when you meet them, only to find yourself disappointed and moving the goal post further away?Â
Do you feel emotionally disconnected from your work and then...
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145. Accepting Where You Are
When you tell yourself that you’re “behind” or that you “should be further along” (whether in your draft or in your career overall), you inadvertently make it harder to achieve your writing and publishing goals. In...
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144. Essential Skills for Debut Authors
As a debut author, you've worked for years (if not decades!) honing your writing and storytelling skills. Yet you're ALSO a beginner in so many ways. Editing under deadline, planning a book launch, and navigating the...
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143. Debut vs Mid-Career Agents with Dahlia Adler
It's normal to have multiple agents throughout your career. As you grow as an author, you need different things out of the author/agent relationship.
On today's podcast, Dahlia Adler (author of Home Field Advantage,...
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142. Feeling Bad & Doing It Anyway
The prioritization of a sustainable, joyful writing life doesn't mean that every writing session feels like rainbows shooting out of your fingertips. Sometimes, you feel bad (because of personal, writing, or...
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141. Trusting Your Process
If you struggle to trust your writing process–or you often doubt your ability to produce a novel despite a history of finished projects–this episode is for you.
You’ll learn how to look back at previous experiences to...
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140. Writing When the World’s on Fire
If world events (or personal challenges) have you feeling too stressed to write, this episode will help you find your way forward again. Isabel walks you through how to care for yourself in the immediate aftermath of...
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139. How to Be Resilient AF
With the devastating election results coming in today, I've pivoted this week's episode to a replay of my How to Be Resilient AF workshop. Resilience is going to be more important than ever, and while this training...
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138. Why It’s Hard to Be Happy
You did the thing! You sold your debut novel, earned out your advance, or finished a draft of a book you love. So… why don’t you feel happy? Why can’t you feel proud or excited about what you’ve done? Why are you...
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137. How to Increase Your Writing Stamina
If you want to write more often (or for longer periods of time), you need to build up your writing stamina.
Trying to go from no writing to daily 2-hour sessions is like a non-runner trying to run a marathon without...
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