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B is for Book Coach — 68 episodes

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Title
1

Check Your Posture—Prevent Future Book Pain

2

Finding Words that Belong

3

Magenta Books & Stories that Take Up Space

4

The Power of Noticing: An Author's View of His Final Project

5

The Ocean Workbook: Using the Table of Content

6

The Mess is Where the Magic Happens

7

Why Books Are Worth All...This

8

The Evolution of Publishing (Isn't What You Think)

9

The Ocean Workbook: The Table of Content

10

It's OK If 'It's Complicated'

11

All or Nothing (and What's in Between)

12

You Don't *Need* to Have a Book, Even When You're Feeling the Pull to Write

13

The Ocean Workbook: Reimagine Your Next Steps

14

Guided 5 Minute Outline: What's On the Other Side?

15

What a Year of Posting on Substack Taught Me

16

Willpower Alone Can't Carry Your Book

17

The Ocean Workbook: Your Idea

18

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Structuring for Complexity

19

How Productivity Steals Our Power

20

Sometimes, the Weeds Win

21

The Ocean Workbook: Your Reader

22

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Paper Has More Patience Than People

23

How to Beat Simon Sinek

24

How Obligation Overwhelm Steals Our Stories

25

The Ocean Workbook: Your Author-ity

26

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Morpheus Mode

27

Who's Allowed in Your Writer's Room?

28

What We Name, We Transform

29

The Ocean Workbook: The Project

30

Guided 5 Minute Outline (Which Is Rarely Just 5 Minutes)

31

What Showing Up Sounds Like

32

Making Peace with the Pause

33

The Ocean Workbook: Ethos and Process

34

Guided 5 Minute Outline: You Are the Pan

35

Writing on Hard Mode

36

You Don't Get to the Ocean by Accident

37

Describing Water to Squirrels

38

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Just Two Core Questions

39

Story Shapes, Colored Pencils, and the Truth in Our Bones

40

When the Work Refuses to Be Rushed

41

Vulnerability Cannot be Replicated

42

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Noticing Flow

43

Stuck Is Just Part of the Game

44

Beginnings Are Hard...So We're Not Going to Start There

45

This Project is a Metaphor for My Life

46

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Braiding Perspectives

47

The Difficulty of Digging

48

How to Take the Drama Out of Cutting and Rewriting Content

49

Where Attention Becomes Intention

50

Guided 5 Minute Outline: A Memoir Situation

51

When the Rules for Writing Are Worth Breaking

52

Give Your Inner Critic the Job They've Always Wanted

53

On Pelicans and Uncomfortably Relevant Writing Advice from World War II

54

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Mapping a Personal, Story-Driven Chapter

55

Feel the Feeling of the Pull to Write

56

Robots Don't Need You—People Do

57

The Author with All the Gifts

58

Guided 5 Minute Outline: General Nonfiction Chapter

59

The Question I’m Asked Most

60

Write to Your Reader's Turning Point

61

What Are You (Always) Writing About?

62

Comparison Isn't a Thief

63

Introducing: the 5 Minute Outline

64

Writing for Change

65

Why We Write

66

Books Don't Build Audiences

67

Your Journey Led You Here

68

Welcome to B is for Book Coach