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Organizing the ADHD Writer Life with Paulette Perhach
Writer and coach Paulette Perhach discusses the importance of creating systems for focus and productivity, and demonstrates a digital tool developed to help writers manage their ideas, submissions, and deadlines.
The Art of Unique Voices: Lessons from the Editor of Autonomous Press with Nick Walker
Dr. Nick Walker, a noted queer futurist and co-creator of the urban fantasy web comic Weird Luck, draws on her experience at Autonomous Press to offer advice to aspiring writers.
A Mindful Approach to Writing: Settle Your Mind, Sharpen Your Story with Candace Coakley
Candace Coakley shows you how to integrate mindfulness and meditation techniques into your writing practices to overcome stress, enhance concentration, and deepen the storytelling process.
Writer’s Block & Doubt Demons with Samantha Skal
Samantha Skal, a book coach specializing in mystery, thriller, and suspense authors, offers strategies for overcoming writer’s block and imposter syndrome.
Exploring Your Genius Zone with Gay Hendricks
In this conversation with bestselling author Gay Hendricks, learn about your genius zone so you can overcome obstacles, deal with fear and criticism, and increase your creative persistence.
The Wild Why: On Creativity and Wonder with Laura Munson
Bestselling author Laura Munson talks about reconnecting with your innate wonder and rediscovering your curiosity, awe, and creativity to write easily and playfully.
Six Ways to Publicize Your Book with Laura Stanfill
Laura Stanfill, publisher of Forest Avenue Press, shares six free ways authors can bring attention to their books.
The Power of Writing in Community with Laura Davis
Bestselling author and writing teacher Laura Davis debunks the myth of the isolated writer and shows how writing in community can help writers explore their deepest truths and connect with others.
Real Writers Discuss Overcoming Obstacles
Real writers from the Pages & Platforms Happily Ever Author Club share their experience of overcoming obstacles to writing and marketing they’ve recently faced. Join Sarah Dinan, Courtney Harrell, Sue Dockstader, and Gretchen Cherington in this panel discussion.
Tortured Artist No More with Laura Munson
This 90-minute workshop will help you manage your empathy and filters to avoid artistic suffering. It will provide a balm, new awareness, and concrete takeaways.
Coaching on Obstacles with Jamie Rose & Sue Campbell
Join us for the eye-opening, live-recorded session where Jamie Rose and Sue Campbell coach real writers on a range of issues including procrastination, time management, fear and more.
Seth Godin on Writer’s Block
Bestselling author and thought leader Seth Godin welcomes you to the summit and talks you through addressing writer's block. In fact, he asserts there's no such thing as writer's block. He also talks about how to dance with imposter syndrome.
Learn more about Seth at sethgodin.com and pick up his books The Practice and The Song of Significance.
From Burnout to Breakthrough: Get Your Creativity Back on Track
Please join Sue Campbell for this conversation, where Nancy Stohlman walks us through the signs of creative burnout and how to break through and recover.
Nancy Stohlman is the author of six books, including After the Rapture, Madonna is a Velvet Cabaret of Oddities, The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, and more. Her work has been anthologized widely, appearing in the Norton Anthology, New Micro, Exceptionally Short Fiction, and The Best Small Fictions of 2019, as well as adapted for both stage and screen. She is a creative coach and a professor at the University of Colorado and holds workshops and writing retreats around the world.
Find out more at nancystohlman.com or flashfictionretreats.com.
Tools for Overcoming Procrastination
Join Jamie Rose and Sue Campbell for a discussion about powerful visualization tools that can help you overcome procrastination and writer’s block.
Jamie Rose enjoyed a five decade career as an actor before becoming a full-time coach and writer. A protege of Dr. Phil Stutz, the brilliant psychiatrist and the subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz, directed by Jonah Hill, she collaborates with Dr. Stutz on workshops and webinars, as well as maintaining a thriving, private coaching practice based on his work.
Her essays and articles have been published in magazines such as Coast, Actors Ink, and Huff post, and she's the author of Shut Up and Dance: The Joy of Letting Go of the Lead. She's currently working on a new book, Facing Madame X: How to Vanquish Negativity, Activate Your Feminine Power and Become Unstoppable, that will be published and released by Arcade Publishing in the fall of 2024.
For more information about Jamie and her coaching practice, go to jamierosecoaching.com.
How to Overcome Writer's Block (For Good)
Tiffany Grimes comes to speak to us about demystifying writer's block.
Tiffany is a writer, book coach, and author web designer, whose mission is to amplify marginalized voices through unflinching and inclusive book coaching and design.
Tiffany is the founder of Burgeon Design and Editorial, and hosts The Art of Self-Editing, a free writing community; "Revision Alchemy," an online editing course for fiction and memoir writers; and The Burgeon Mastermind," a six month writing collective.
She earned her MFA from Hamline University, and her writing has been published in Meat for Tea: The Valley Review; Microfiction Monday Magazine; The Fiction Pool, Ruminate Magazine; Feels Blind Literary; and Herstry. She currently lives in Salem, Oregon with her cats.
UNBLOCKED: How to Tell a Different Story
In this conversation, Anne Hawley is pleased to welcome L. L. Kirchner and her program Unblocked: How to Tell a Different Story. LL is an award winning screenwriter and the author of two memoirs, including her brand new one, Blissful Thinking: A Memoir of Overcoming the Wellness Revolution.
She's a book critic, essayist, and reporter. LL, or Lisa, as she is sometimes known, was a story coach for The Moth. This is a New York City nonprofit group that presents storytelling events, and that's going to come into our conversation here in a few minutes.
As a live on-air guest with the Home Shopping Network, she coaches people one-on-one on public speaking.
Her newest memoir was just released in October 2023: Blissful Thinking: A Memoir of Overcoming the Wellness Revolution.
Join her mailing list at llkirchner.com.
The Story You Tell Yourself
Grab and pen and paper as join Sue Campbell walks you through how to persist with your writing career through the story you tell yourself. We’ll unpack the harmful stories you’ve been telling yourself, how to loosen their grip, and how to tell yourself a new story that can get you to your goals.
Sue Campbell is an author, mindset coach and book marketer who has helped hundreds of writers, from newbies to bestsellers, transform their inhibitive mindset around marketing and realize their full potential as authors. Her clients have exponentially increased their email lists and book sales, landed articles in prestigious publications such as The New York Times, done guest spots on popular podcasts and more.
She is also a certified life coach through the Life Coach School. Learn more about her at http://pagesandplatforms.com.
Addressing Imposter Syndrome (and more)
Join national best-selling author and writing coach Jennifer Louden and Sue Campbell in conversation about how to neutralize imposter syndrome, manage fear by supporting your nervous system so you can calm down and write, writing with neurodiversity and more.
JEN LOUDEN wanted to be Harriet the Spy when she was eight, an enlightened master when she was twelve, and a brilliant comedy writer when she was twenty-two. She penned her first bestseller, The Woman’s Comfort Book in 1992. She’s the author of eight additional books including The Woman’s Retreat Book and Why Bother? She has coached writers since 2001 because she struggled so mightily to become a successful author. She;s currently writing a contemporary fantasy with a cli-fi angle.
Empowering Marginalized Voices
Please join award-winning author Kesha Ajose-Fisher in conversation with Sue Campbell about how writers from traditionally marginalized groups can stay true to their writing voice and get their stories into the world.
Kesha Ajose Fisher was born in Chicago and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. She now lives in Oregon with her family. Kesha's debut collection of fictional stories, No God Like the Mother, focuses on the lives and realities of women who've been tasked with holding up the sky all the while the world whispers, "You're doing it wrong." No God Like the Mother won the 2020 Oregon book award for fiction and the Phoenix Literary Magazine's Editors' Choice Award for short fiction. It was rereleased in 2023 by Forest Avenue Press. Her writing has been published in several online and print collections and in such publications as Multicultural Familia magazine and the Alchemy Literary magazine, and twice in Beyond Black and White magazine. Kesha is committed to fighting for social justice and her dedication to this cause can be seen in everything she does. She works in social services, is a vocal advocate for immigrants and refugees, and she champions equality and education while opposing the poverty that plagues humanity.
Writing With ADHD: The Tools, Not Rules, Approach
Rachelle Ramirez shares a simple, three-step model for determining which "expert" writing rules and advice will work best for you.
Rachelle is a developmental editor, master's level counselor, certified ADHD coach, one of the world’s foremost experts on Story Types, and co-host of The Happily Ever Author Club and the Write Anyway Summit. She co-wrote The Pages and Platforms Guide to Story and numerous online masterclasses for writers with fellow developmental editor, Anne Hawley. Rachelle's forthcoming book is The ADHD Writer: From Frustrated to Focused to Finished. Learn more about Rachelle and her developmental editing services at rachelleramirez.com.