WRITING WELL: 3 Ways to Discover Your Next Big Book Idea

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WRITING WELL: 3 Ways to Discover Your Next Big Book Idea

Leader, thinker, changemaker, and cultural influencer, you’ve questioned the feeling but you can't shake it. This next book you are to write must be big and transformational. You’ve come into new way of being, and it’s causing you to see everything differently. The pieces are still coming together and the idea is at the tip of your pen, but you are feeling a bit stuck on how to tease it out. Let the answers to these three questions lead you to your next big book idea.

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The Well Writer's Cycle

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The Well Writer's Cycle

Beyond mastering their craft, every writer needs a healthy and sustainable writing practice that includes periods of inspiration (query, research, observation), expression (writing, sharing), and restoration (reflection, celebration, rest).

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5 Reason You Don't Want a Writing Coach

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5 Reason You Don't Want a Writing Coach

You’ve done OK by yourself. Sure, your book isn’t done, but once you really set aside the time and make the commitment, you could get it done if you really wanted to. The isolation of the writing life does not get to you at all. Friends and family may not understand the sacrifice you need to make to write your book, but you’ve got yourself and God.

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About Writing and Failure

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About Writing and Failure

If you struggle with overcoming hindrances to your writing and have not been able to break through and write anyhow, let me offer that it is OK to push back against them. Do not lay back as if failure is your lot. It is not.

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3 Ways the Pray Hear Write Practice Enhances Your Spiritual Writing Life

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3 Ways the Pray Hear Write Practice Enhances Your Spiritual Writing Life

Your spiritual life as a writer is more than just about how often you read the Bible, pray, and go to church. It’s also about how your whole internal life provides you the right environment to create what God has called you to create and how you will share what you create with others. Helping to develop this right environment, The Pray Hear Write practice enhances your spiritual and writing life in three significant ways.

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4 Ways to Approach Prayer for Your Writing

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4 Ways to Approach Prayer for Your Writing

This is about actively participating with the Spirit of God to assume the right heart posture. How you think and believe as you engage with God is important. So here are the heart postures that help me approach God about my writing.

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Embracing the Cycles and Seasons of Creativity

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Embracing the Cycles and Seasons of Creativity

As I cycle through what is required or what I am committed to as a CEO, a creator who leads and coaches other creators, a mom, a daughter, a sister, and a friend, the messages my mind, spirit, and body communicate back to me are writing a new set of rules.

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Maybe Means No

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Maybe Means No

I brought in the new year reading Kim Perell’s Jump. It was a perfectly timed read. In chapter 4, “The Power of Decision-Making,” she writes about the powerful bit of advice her mom gave her when she was dealing with indecision: “Maybe means no.” Your gut. Your intuition. Your Holy Spirit. Trust it. Trust Him. You know when you are not feeling open to the options in front of you. You know a no when you feel it.

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Work, Rest, Success, and the In-Between

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Work, Rest, Success, and the In-Between

Feeling soft brushes of distant sea breezes against my face and through my hair, I am thinking about all the work I have to do after a few back-to-back conferences and a business trip. On this dream-like, cloudy day in perpetually sunny Florida, I’m attempting to get back to the daily grind after succumbing to involuntary pressure to allow a few days to recoup from the last few weeks.

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Bloom and Grow: Lessons from Houseplants on the Writing Life

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Bloom and Grow: Lessons from Houseplants on the Writing Life

For months, I watched my giant peace lily sensation push out leaf after leaf. I was amazed, of course, at her rich foliage, but I knew that these plants produce beautiful blooms. Yet, after so long and no hint of a bloom, I had resigned that mine, while healthy and growing, may not be in the ideal conditions to flower.

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Compassion + Empathy: the superpowers of writing that resonates

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Compassion + Empathy: the superpowers of writing that resonates

While many first-time writers begin with wanting to tell their story, it’s not so much the story that is needed, but the connection to the story that informs a sense of awareness for one’s own needs, desires, and motivations are what connects them to others’ needs. This is what makes good writing…

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