As always, most of my posts are usually notes I like referencing from time to time and figure, if it helped me, it might help others and so here it is. While browsing Chapters, I came across this interesting card deck: Calm Prompt Cards | The School of Life (not an affiliate link, just ended …
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In honor of Preptober, below is a list of solutions to the major problems writers face while drafting: Choose one story. Working on one story cuts down on the time needed to refocus and makes it easier to achieve depth. To choose the right story, freefall write (i.e., stream of conscious) your thoughts on all …
How to write your entire novel in a mind mapping app.
I don't know about you, but I stop in my tracks when I come across a decision I can’t make. Writing is a series of decisions. For a 'writer' as indecisive as me, that’s quite the hairy pickle. What’s weird is that when I’m telling a story to a friend or family member, it flows. …
I've always been the one to hustle, thinking if I worked hard enough I would never be for lack of options. And I never was. But then I became someone with too MANY options along with a curse of indecisiveness.To top it off, I was stressed out all the time. I didn't think life could be led a different way. …
Stephen Guise is the founder of Deep Existence, a blog about self-development, and the writer of Mini Habits, a book about his personal philosophy on how to get things done (with research that backs up some of his arguments). I found the book to be a pretty good starting point for personal development and so without …
Perfectionism, insecurities, failures and success. It's at the core of everything. It's something that you can't ever look fully in the face because that's when it knows you'll win and it won't let that happen. So fear will do everything in its power to keep you down on the ground or facing away from it. Sometimes this …
If you're like me, you've had issues that range from fear of failure to fixed mindedness (yep, those are things that I will probably repeat on numerous occasions until the end of time...or at least until I rid myself of them; apologies in advance). I find that those issues fall under the broad banner of "being an anxiety-ridden …
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Two ways you can combat perfectionist tendencies.
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