Category Writing psychology
5 Ways to Achieve Writing Self-Confidence #amwriting
I’m still going through my old posts, and I’ve decided to clean up my history and delete posts that are no longer relevant (short-term sales, posts with links to sites that no longer exist etc.), so I’m still a mite busy. It’s also great coming across the evergreen posts that just beg to be shared […]
Writers, are you easily distracted? Try the ‘bubble’ technique.
I had one of those lightbulb moments about another sporting technique that can easily be applied to writing. One of the most difficult things for a performance athlete to learn is total focus. This means learning that while you must address the things that are within your sphere of control, you must equally well learn […]
Are you a healthy author?
I’ve noticed quite a lot of posts on this topic this year, and I think the subject deserves plenty of attention. Being an author is, for the most part, a sedentary occupation (not to mention solitary!) which can cause plenty of health issues. I chose today to talk about this because I was prompted by […]
Writers, how do you manage your time? Have you discovered the Pomodoro technique? #TimeManagement #amwriting
I shared this technique earlier on Marcia Meara’s blog, THE WRITE STUFF, while Marcia continues her clear up after the destruction visited upon her home by Hurricane Irma. I am not a full time writer. Like a lot of others, I have to fit my writing time around my full time business. And my business is […]
Reblog of ‘Muse: How Creativity Effects the Brain’ – Crime Writer Sue Coletta
A fascinating piece relating scientific research into how writers use their brains, and the startling differences between seasoned and novice writers. This form of reblog annoyingly only shows a couple of lines of the original post – do please click on the link to see more, it’s worth it. I think I might have […]
Adjustability – the secret to overcoming frustration #amwriting #authors
Adjustability – the secret to overcoming frustration. Once again drawing on sports psychology, this is a major concept that any sports person, and particularly riders like me, have to grasp, accept and enact. We all suffer setbacks. For athletes, it’s often injury (it certainly is with horses!), or it may be fitness or skill development […]
Do you think your #writing isn’t good enough? Dealing with your fears – Part 3
While it is definitely advisable to achieve a fair degree of knowledge of writing and publishing before you go ahead, if you are a writer who NEVER feels like your work is either good enough, or ready enough, then I advocate taking Hugh Laurie’s advice. There are so many ways you can self-sabotage your writing career, and […]
Do you think your #writing isn’t good enough? Dealing with your fears – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, which you can find here, I talked about the concept of POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE, a phrase much used in my normal working field of sports coaching, and how it can also be applied to writers to help overcome performance fears – in this case, performance as a writer, and as […]
Do you think your #writing isn’t good enough? Dealing with your fears (Part 1)
I just finished reading an issue of the UK writer’s magazine, Mslexia, a publication for women by women, in which a poll revealed that the vast majority of women writers do not submit work for publication due to fear – fear of rejection, or fear that their work is not good enough. Now I don’t know what […]
#Writers, what can you learn from modelling? #MondayBlogs #NLP
No, I don’t mean the catwalk type! This topic has been brewing in my mind for over a year, and when WordPress so kindly provided me with my handy dandy annual round up, it showed me that the most popular posts I’ve written are those on writing or publishing – as if there aren’t enough […]
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