Hints, Hooks & Payoffs

Hints, Hooks & Payoffs

The Dreaded Info Dump   Imagine you’re at a party, where you don’t know anyone. (Apologies if you’re an introvert like me, where “being at a party where you don’t know anyone” ranks right up there with “skydiving” or “being hunted for sport” on the list of things...
How personal?

How personal?

How personal should your stories be? This occasionally comes up when I’m working with my coaching clients. For reasons they might not be able to identify, they will feel that their stories are stale, or their endings are safe. (Often, they’re not wrong.) I’ve talked...
3 Things to Know

3 Things to Know

There are three things you should know to be a successful writer.   That may seem facile, clickbait for writing courses and coaches. But it really does boil down to three things: What’s your goal? What’s your writer archetype? What’s your process? They are...
Tap into Psyche

Tap into Psyche

WELCOME TO THE ID. The Oxford dictionary defines the id as “the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest.” In a nutshell, the id is all about subconscious instincts, drives, desires. We might not think about them, but...
Assumptions & Requirements

Assumptions & Requirements

  We discussed looking at your goals, asking yourself what you wanted, why you wanted it, and then the last bit: what do you think you’ll need to do to get it. The thing is, often times what we think we need to do, and what we actually need to do, are not...