Why “Geeking Out” Is the Key to Growing Your Audience
Often attracting an audience (aka building a platform) feels difficult because we misunderstand its purpose. We think it’s about: Sending an email or writing a blog post every week Coming up with something brilliant to say on a consistent basis Sharing about our writing journey regularly These are all things we may end up doing […]
A Powerful Thing to Remember When You’re Stuck
Recently I joined a gym. Well, I say a gym. It’s actually a nearby high school’s fitness center that’s much cheaper than other gyms and is just 7 minutes from my house. I joined because I want to train for my first Olympic-distance triathlon, and I need a place both to swim and to cycle […]
Best Books for Writers on Craft, Creativity, Marketing, and More!
Reading the right books can help you become a better, more successful writer, but where to start!? I’ve been an avid reader of books for writers a long time now, and it’s a topic I’ve written about in the past. But as I keep reading more books in this genre, I expand and refine my […]
Get Solid Endorsements for Your Book with This 5-Step Process
As readers we’ve likely relied on endorsements for own book choices, so we get how important they are. Endorsements serve as third-party votes of confidence for your book. They lend credibility and reliability to what you’ve written. So, how do you get them? In this article I’m going to share five steps that just about […]
6 Middle-of-the-Year Questions to Achieve End-of-Year Success
We think a lot about beginnings and endings. Beginnings often come with a rush of excitement that tends to overwhelm the also attendant anxiety. Endings are when we look back. We celebrate the wins, course-correct for losses, and look to a new beginning. Endings come with a sense of closure and finality. But what about […]
How a writer started and quickly grew his audience . . . in East Africa!
A little while back I saw this post in the BookCamp Facebook group: This caught my attention, so I reached out to George to hear more of his story. It turns out, George, his wife, and four children live in Burundi, a very poor country in East Africa just south of Rwanda. They’re missionaries who […]
How to Write Blog Posts That Expand Your Audience
Blogging is a great way for writers to build an audience, but how do you get people to pay attention to your posts? There’s nothing more demoralizing than working for hours on a post only to hear crickets after hitting “publish.” Having blogged professionally for five years now, I’d like to offer my top seven […]
My Top 10 Takeaways from *Write Better* by Andrew Le Peau
Do you know about the book Write Better: A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality by Andrew T. Le Peau? I recently led the BookCamp community through this book and strongly recommend it to any writer. Below I offer my top 10 takeaways from Write Better: 1. When you start, don’t worry about where to start. […]
Get Rid of Writer’s Block Once and for All!
I rarely get eater’s block. If I want something to eat, it doesn’t take long to satisfy the urge. That’s because my family keeps a grocery list. Whenever or just before we run out of an item, we write it on the list. Then once or twice a week, one of us goes out to […]
Your Obvious Path to a Larger Audience
A couple weeks ago I took my son downhill skiing for the first time. Everything went really well, and after five hours of skiing, the perfect way to cap off our adventure, I thought, would be two piping hot cups of hot chocolate. After returning our equipment, I asked one of the rental staff employees, […]