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B is for Book Coach — 72 episodes
The Ocean Workbook: The Power of You
Should I Use AI to Write My Book?
The Heroism of Writing
The Ocean Workbook: Diving In
Check Your Posture—Prevent Future Book Pain
Finding Words that Belong
Magenta Books & Stories that Take Up Space
The Power of Noticing: An Author's View of His Final Project
The Ocean Workbook: Using the Table of Content
The Mess is Where the Magic Happens
Why Books Are Worth All...This
The Evolution of Publishing (Isn't What You Think)
The Ocean Workbook: The Table of Content
It's OK If 'It's Complicated'
All or Nothing (and What's in Between)
You Don't *Need* to Have a Book, Even When You're Feeling the Pull to Write
The Ocean Workbook: Reimagine Your Next Steps
Guided 5 Minute Outline: What's On the Other Side?
What a Year of Posting on Substack Taught Me
Willpower Alone Can't Carry Your Book
The Ocean Workbook: Your Idea
Guided 5 Minute Outline: Structuring for Complexity
How Productivity Steals Our Power
Sometimes, the Weeds Win
The Ocean Workbook: Your Reader
Guided 5 Minute Outline: Paper Has More Patience Than People
How to Beat Simon Sinek
How Obligation Overwhelm Steals Our Stories
The Ocean Workbook: Your Author-ity
Guided 5 Minute Outline: Morpheus Mode
Who's Allowed in Your Writer's Room?
What We Name, We Transform
The Ocean Workbook: The Project
Guided 5 Minute Outline (Which Is Rarely Just 5 Minutes)
What Showing Up Sounds Like
Making Peace with the Pause
The Ocean Workbook: Ethos and Process
Guided 5 Minute Outline: You Are the Pan
Writing on Hard Mode
You Don't Get to the Ocean by Accident
Describing Water to Squirrels
Guided 5 Minute Outline: Just Two Core Questions
Story Shapes, Colored Pencils, and the Truth in Our Bones
When the Work Refuses to Be Rushed
Vulnerability Cannot be Replicated
Guided 5 Minute Outline: Noticing Flow
Stuck Is Just Part of the Game
Beginnings Are Hard...So We're Not Going to Start There
This Project is a Metaphor for My Life
Guided 5 Minute Outline: Braiding Perspectives
The Difficulty of Digging
How to Take the Drama Out of Cutting and Rewriting Content
Where Attention Becomes Intention
Guided 5 Minute Outline: A Memoir Situation
When the Rules for Writing Are Worth Breaking
Give Your Inner Critic the Job They've Always Wanted
On Pelicans and Uncomfortably Relevant Writing Advice from World War II
Guided 5 Minute Outline: Mapping a Personal, Story-Driven Chapter
Feel the Feeling of the Pull to Write
Robots Don't Need You—People Do
The Author with All the Gifts
Guided 5 Minute Outline: General Nonfiction Chapter
The Question I’m Asked Most
Write to Your Reader's Turning Point
What Are You (Always) Writing About?
Comparison Isn't a Thief
Introducing: the 5 Minute Outline
Writing for Change
Why We Write
Books Don't Build Audiences
Your Journey Led You Here
Welcome to B is for Book Coach