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From The Surprising Power of Asking for Help with Jennie Nash
Seeking assistance is a powerful move, not a sign of weakness! Author Accelerator founder and CEO Jenny Nash provides guidance on finding the right type of help at various stages of the writing process.
Writing With Neurodivergence and Mental Health Gabriela Pereira
DIY MFA’s Gabriela Pereira reveals strategies for maintaining creative productivity while managing mental health, chronic illness, or neurodivergence challenges.
Rediscovering Creativity After Motherhood with Josee Smith
Indie author and book coach Josee Smith discusses the impact of motherhood on her creative process and shares her ideas for maintaining a writing practice amidst a busy schedule.
Writing While Juggling All the Things with Sara Gentry
Sara Gentry, a math PhD turned certified book coach, discusses the challenges of balancing writing with other life responsibilities.
How to Be a Writer When You Have a Chronic Illness with Sandra Postma
Sondra Postma emphasizes the unique perspectives that chronic illness brings to writing, advocating for Spoonies to embrace their identities as writers and take their place in the literary community.
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.