Posted on March 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of creative process advice to offer.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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Dodging the scarcity trap: Anne Janzer encourages her fellow authors to think about how allowing their ideas to be seen by more people during the writing process could actually enhance the final product, versus hiding it from a sense that it's vulnerable to theft (Jane Friedman).
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How I used hate mail to propel my book forward: Psychotherapist Amanda Ann Gregory realized that the content that caused the most reactions, even though they were often angry ones, was the content that most needed to be shared with the world (Women Writers, Women's Books).
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On flow state and doomscrolling: Liza Nash Taylor compares how she feels when she absorbs herself in a creative outlet of any kind, and what the science says about this, with when she's focusing on what others put out or do (Writer Unboxed).
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Intuition, journaling, and overcoming fear: Joanna Penn interviews Jacob Nordby, author of The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life, about his book and its applications for writers (The Creative Penn).
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When word count is the enemy: Greer Macallister shares three downsides of using total words as the exclusive way to measure your progress on a piece of writing (Writer Unboxed).
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