by Cathy Yardley | Writing Life
You know your author brand. Now what? Remember last week, when we talked about author branding being an introduction? When you introduce yourself to someone, you don’t regurgitate your whole life story in minute detail with footnotes and color commentary. You...
by Cathy Yardley | Writing Life
How do you keep writing? So… how are you doing? In the past week, especially if you live in the U.S., things have been… chaotic, to say the least. For some of us, there is an active despair. Demoralization, depression, rage, grief, all there in a...
by Cathy Yardley | Writing Life
We acknowledged that we were in burnout. We stopped the immediate downward spiral, finishing the stress cycles. We worked on identifying what was keeping us in quickstand. From there, we triaged as much as we could out of our schedules, slashing away at commitments...
by Cathy Yardley | Business, Writing Life
The problem with burnout is you’ve taken all available personal resources, to the point where you have nothing left. Unfortunately, the demand for resources is still chugging along, and odds are good you are either trying to meet demand (or even increasing...
by Cathy Yardley | Writing Life
BURNOUT: The struggle is real. I’ve had what has been called “writer’s block” many times over my career. What I only recently realized is: what we call writer’s block is, quite often, burnout. Which is probably why some people experience it, and others don’t (and...
