New Book: The Writing Craft Playbook, Vol. 1

I'm 4 days away from my law final, and I can see a light at the end of the tunnel!!! Anyway, huge thank you to those on my YouTube Community Tab who voted on my new lead magnet for the Author Level Up mailing list. I've neglected my mailing list for too long and I...

My Process of Creating Content Faster

I write a lot of content quickly. But am I doing it quickly enough? Are there areas where I can improve? I’m always asking these questions…it’s how I’m wired. I reviewed all of the content I create and looked for ways to be more efficient. The Writer’s Journey podcast...

My 2020 Strategy (Part 2)

In my last post, I talked about my 2020 strategy: to develop sustainable income and staying power. I discussed all the reasons why authors should be concerned about the future in my last post, so read that if you haven't already. Today, I'm covering the supporting...

Mostly Healed

Recovered from my illness. Whatever it was, it wasn't fun. I've always said that you just have to take a break and take care of yourself. That's exactly what I did and I feel 1000% better as a result. Spent most of the weekend reading law cases and editing Author...

Got My Butt Kicked Today

As you will learn on this week’s episode of the Writer’s Journey, I am officially sick. I recorded the episode feeling a little off-kilter. By the time I was uploading it, I had chills so bad I could hardly speak. Not my day, especially when I have to prepare for law...

Ideas Are Currency

My biggest problem in life is that I have a lot of ideas. On any given day, I have dozens of ideas related to the writing life, usually in the form of solutions to help writers with problems. I am not kidding. It is a serious problem, sometimes making it hard for me...

Rapid Empathy

I'm working on a new book project that I can't share too much about yet. But it is requiring me to create a proposal. That's what nonfiction writers do when they have a book idea: write a book proposal and present it to the publisher. (I'm not pursuing a publishing...

Starting an Experiment

For the last few weeks, I've been posting daily social media videos and daily YouTube community posts. They have gone over very well. The vids will continue on my socials so no worries about that. However, starting today, I am centralizing my posts to my new Author...

Been Doing Some Thing Watching

Everyone knows what people watching is, but have you heard of thing watching? A few years back I had this weird idea to study inanimate objects exactly like people. For example, I decided to pay attention to doors. For an entire weekend, everywhere I went I looked at...