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Writer in the Making — 452 episodes

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Finish More Pages Without Writing Every Day

2

How to Find Time to Write When Your Schedule Is Already Full (with Lissa Figgins)

3

How to Keep Writing When Self-Doubt Comes Out of Nowhere

4

How to Keep Writing During the Holidays Without Burning Out

5

You and Novel November

6

Writing Feels Like a Luxury? Think Again

7

This Summer, Finish the Book That’s Been Waiting on You

8

You Budgeted for Everything But This

9

Summer Isn’t a Break from Your Book—It’s Your Breakthrough

10

Will I Show Up This Time?

11

The Courage to Start Again

12

Overcoming the “Busy Author” Myth

13

The Writing Career You Deserve

14

Why Now is the Only Time that Matters to Write

15

Writing Through the Lows: How to stay motivated even when creativity feels like a struggle.

16

Breaking Free from Bogged-Down Writing Days

17

How I Wrote Over 40,000 Words in 6 Weeks

18

Should I Dictate My Novel? How Dictation Can Transform Your Writing Process

19

How to Write Consistently (Even When Life Feels Like Chaos!)

20

Are You Really Ready to Write That Book?

21

Write Like a Pro—Even When Life Won’t Slow Down

22

Have You Decided Yet? Stop Waiting and Write with Purpose

23

Your Story Needs to Be Told—Here’s How to Make It Happen

24

Why You Haven’t Finished Your Book—And How to Fix It

25

Master Your Time & Write with Intention: A Beginner's Guide to No Time Writer

26

The Missing Piece in Your Writing Journey: Why a Tailored System Can Be the Game-Changer You Need

27

Bust the Myth: "I Don’t Have Time to Write"

28

Sneak Peek: Inside the No Time Writer Framework

29

Bust the Myth: Writers Don’t Need Hours to Be Productive

30

Your Mindset Matters More Than Your Schedule. Here’s Why

31

A Message from Your Unwritten Book (Final 2024 episode)

32

Master Your Schedule: 4 Tips to Make Time for Writing Without Sacrificing What Matters

33

Stop Settling: There's Hope for Your Writing Part 2

34

There's Hope for Your Writing: Finish Strong

35

Mac & Cheese and Writing: Ready to Stop Self-Sabotaging?

36

Editing During the Holidays: Should You Start or Wait?

37

Why the Holiday Season is the Perfect Time to Write

38

Should You Write During the Holidays?

39

Stop Waiting: Start Writing Now

40

Binging or Writing? Overcoming the Knowledge-Action Gap

41

Act Like Your Writing Matters: Last Chance to Claim Your $500 Voucher!

42

Writing Rituals: The Secret to Consistent Creativity (Even When Life's Busy!)

43

Why Writing Every Day Isn't a Must: How to Stay Consistent Without the Stress

44

Consistency vs. Inspiration: Why Waiting to Write Is Holding You Back

45

What Happens When You Finally Publish

46

Recommit to Your Writing: What to Do When You Miss a Day

47

Keys to Author Success: The 4 Pillars with Author & Book Coach Emma Dhesi

48

Embrace Your 'Selfish' Writing Goal: Make Writing a Priority

49

The Hidden Cost of Waiting: Why Your Writing Can't Wait

50

Reached Your Limit as a Writer? Time for a Change!

51

Conquer Your Writing Fears & Beat Imposter Syndrome

52

Last Call: Back to the Basics - Build a Bulletproof Writing Routine

53

Back to the Basics: Build a Bulletproof Writing Routine for 2024 Success

54

Master Your Writing Journey with Gabriela Pereira from DIY MFA

55

Why Less is More in Writing: Mastering Writing Consistency

56

The True Impact of Your Words

57

Choose Your Book Over Regrets

58

The Real Cost of Neglecting Your Writing

59

Why Your Story Deserves Your Time

60

Treat Your Writing Like a Business: Invest, Commit, and Succeed

61

Finish Summer Strong: Write Your First Draft Now

62

If Not Now, When? With Paula Judith Johnson: Overcoming the 'Perfect Time' Myth

63

How to Stay Disciplined and Write Consistently, No Matter What

64

Writing Beyond Yourself: The Power of Consistency

65

How to Stay Committed to Your Writing for the Long Haul

66

Overcome Fear of Failure: Building a Strong Writing Mindset

67

Author Reset: Overcome Writing Blocks and Boost Your Productivity

68

Author Reset: Break Through Mental Barriers

69

Be an Active Writer

70

Breaking the 'Stop and Go' Writing Cycle

71

How to Maintain Motivation and Energy for Writing

72

How to Start and Finish Unfinished Writing Projects

73

How to Write Consistently Minus the Overwhelm

74

Write for the Joy of Writing with Anne Montgomery

75

Micro Writing Sessions + Big News!

76

Prioritize your Writing

77

Overcome Writer’s Overwhelm

78

When Writing Feels Impossible

79

Dream Big: Planning Your Writing Legacy

80

RSVP for No Time Writer's 2nd Anniversary Event

81

Writing with Confidence

82

How Mastering Time Management Can Transform Your Career

83

Updates coming your way

84

How do you find time to write in your busy schedule?

85

Beat the Clock: 2024 Goal Setting for Busy Authors

86

Just show up

87

Have you rsvp’d yet?

88

Getting motivated to write

89

You don’t have to write everyday

90

3 Common Objections to No Time Writer

91

What’s the big vision of No Time Writer?

92

The Unshackled Writer Event!

93

Maximize your Focus: Focus Better as a Writer

94

Skyrocket Your Writing Productivity: The Ultimate Time Management Hack for Busy Writers

95

Master your Writing Routine: How to Create & Stick to a Writing Schedule

96

5 Must Have Tools to Empower Authors & Writers

97

5 ways writers can manage their time when working on multiple writing projects

98

5 reasons why setting realistic writing goals is essential

99

5 ways to organize & prioritize your writing time

100

5 ways to stay accountable with your writing

101

5 reasons customized schedules help you gain writing freedom (Plan your Novel)

102

Know your Writing Process with Guest Chris K. Jones

103

5 ways to take back control of your writing schedule

104

4 Reasons Weekly Plan Sheets Work (Plan your Novel) Part 1

105

My 5-Step Writing Process (Finish your First Draft)

106

4 Things to Dump as an Author

107

Plan out your writing in 2023 with Guest Stacy Juba

108

Plan your Novel with Plottr (Guest Troy Lambert)

109

2nd Sprinters Challenge

110

When your writing momentum slows down

111

Something incredible for authors!!!

112

3 Ways to Tap into your Author Identity

113

Blogs & Hangouts

114

Write 50K in a Month!

115

I’m going LIVE!

116

Write. Publish. Profit 5.0!

117

This is HUGE news for NTW!

118

I planned it and it still didn't work

119

Thank you & Announcements!

120

We’re on Facebook!

121

3% finish—my reaction

122

Cozy Mystery Update & Instagram

123

No Time Writer Training!

124

Are you coming to the summit?

125

Find your Next Reader Summit

126

Guess who? (Interview with Dave Chesson)

127

A No Time Writer Story

128

No Time Writer is HERE!

129

How to finally win Camp NaNoWriMo!

130

The #1 Thing you need to Finish your First Draft

131

Sound familiar writers?

132

No Time Write (New Online Course)

133

Preorder No Time Writer

134

Announcements & updates!

135

No Time to Write?

136

Style & Voice Summit!

137

Style & Voice: The Writers Summit 2022

138

Gathering Writer Data

139

Make Your Writing Come Alive

140

Promote any Book on BookBub

141

Last Chance Writers!

142

Writers Craft 3.0 is Back!

143

Have you heard?

144

The Wedding Report promo!

145

Post Book Launch Tips

146

Killer Runway is here!

147

What was the Hardest Part?

148

Daria’s Cybershop

149

Happy New Year & Updates

150

Killer Runway updates

151

10 Top Book Marketing Articles from BookBub in 2021

152

5 Fun Writing Exercises for Amazing Characters

153

BookBub Ads

154

Thanks for your support!

155

Have you heard of Wisdom?

156

Hurry! Only 12 Hours left before this Black/Cyber Monday deal ends for good!

157

The #1 Reason You Should Pick up Writters Craft 3.0 today!

158

Don’t Miss my #1 Black Friday sale for writers!

159

Writers & storycrafters. Everything. You. Need

160

Black Friday just came early this year!

161

Something Big is Coming!

162

New Look for Writer Merch and Courses!

163

Timelines, Timelines, Timelines

164

Hardcovers and Books2Read

165

3 Tips for your Author Newsletter

166

A Much Needed Break

167

Killer Runway is finished!

168

Updates & Announcements

169

Romance Writers’ Week

170

Increase Holiday Book Sales

171

Book Discovery Services Can Help You Find Readers

172

13 Mistakes First-Time Romance Authors Make

173

Updates & Killer Runway

174

BookBub—Authors on Social Media

175

What Mackenzie Needs is here!

176

What Mackenzie Needs

177

Update with Those We Love in Blue

178

BookBaby Article

179

Are you coming?

180

Thank you!!!

181

Photo Bombed releases tomorrow!

182

Did you get Photo Bombed?

183

Photo Bombed releases May 25th

184

Photo Bombed details!

185

An announcement about Photo Bombed!

186

Free Resources for Writers

187

How to Self Revise Mind-Blowing Novels

188

Book Revising 101

189

It’s Back!

190

Book Editing 101

191

Photo Bombed is done!

192

Almost there!

193

FictionFive Contest with Critique Match

194

Progress on Photo Bombed

195

30 Ways Authors use Videos to Engage Readers

196

LIVE with Me!

197

How to Lengthen Your Novel

198

A Winter Storm I’ll Never Forget

199

I’m Writing Two Books at the Same Time

200

Latest Merch Store Additions!

201

Do you have a writing schedule?

202

Can You Believe It?

203

A Blog Post I Wanted to Share

204

Pep Talk—You’ve Got What it Takes

205

Mapping out My Goals

206

Wishing You a Happy New Year

207

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays

208

I Found this Interesting

209

Free Resources for Writers

210

It’s Story Time

211

It’s the last day!

212

My First Online Christmas Party

213

2020 Christmas Giveaway and more!

214

Grateful

215

In Case You Need a Cheerleader!

216

Updates and Encourgagement

217

Build Your Own Podcast

218

Another Webinar!

219

C.P.S. Checklist (WIM Plus +)

220

The Story behind WIM Plus+

221

My First Webinar!

222

WIM Plus +

223

SelfPub Conference 2020

224

CritiqueMatch

225

Thank you: The Wedding Report

226

New Release: The Wedding Report

227

A Free Short Story

228

The Unexpected Character: The Wedding Report

229

My favorite scene: The Wedding Report

230

Thank You!

231

Reflections on my Birthday!

232

Thinking of Zoe

233

Photo Bombed & Thinking of Zoe!

234

Thinking of Zoe & Those We Love in Blue

235

Hit the Betseller list?

236

COVID-19 and your Book

237

My First Cozy Mystery

238

Growing your Newsletter

239

Thinking of Zoe: an update!

240

Other Genres

241

Experience as a Judge

242

Christmas Therapy is here!

243

Experiences of a Black Writer

244

Tips from a Volunteer Judge

245

The Wedding Report, Thinking of Zoe, & FictionFive contest!

246

My First Contest as a Judge!

247

Thinking of Zoe is finished!

248

For Juneteenth

249

Christmas Therapy & continuing the conversation

250

Let’s Meet at the Bridge

251

Thank You from a Black Author

252

Ever done a Presale?

253

Revive an Old Writing Project

254

Still Writing...

255

Camp NaNoWriMo update

256

Anything for Noelle

257

Progress with Thinking of Zoe

258

The Unfinished Novel

259

Authors going Virtual

260

Camp NaNoWriMo April 2020

261

Authors helping Authors

262

Thinking of Zoe—Book 3

263

Anything for Noelle is finished!

264

Write a Pageturner (2)

265

Write a Pageturner

266

Meet the Cast—Anything for Noelle

267

Christmas Connection: Thank you!

268

Revisiting Imposter Syndrome

269

Christmas Connection is here!

270

Structuring Scenes

271

Big Announcement!

272

Behind the Scenes: Christmas Therapy

273

Christmas Connection Update

274

Christmas Therapy is coming!

275

Tips on Social Media

276

Character wounds—part 2

277

Happy New Year!

278

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

279

Character wounds

280

Save the Cat—The Princess Bride (Act 3)

281

Save the Cat—The Princess Bride (Act 2)

282

Happy Thanksgiving!

283

Save the Cat—The Princess Bride (Act 1)

284

Romance Rehab

285

Pep Talk—The Dripping Faucet

286

New Novella!

287

Plotting Your Novel—Save the Cat

288

Don’t be afraid to take risks

289

Revising some more

290

Are you doing Camp Nano?

291

Romance Summit Takeaway

292

Romance Writers Craft Summit

293

First Round of Revisions

294

More Writer’s Guides

295

Hallmark Review—An Unforgettable Christmas

296

We’re Close

297

Hallmark Review—A Royal Christmas Wish

298

Reader Magnet?

299

Hallmark Review—A Gingerbread Romance

300

Hallmark Review—Out of the Picture

301

Revising (Part 5)

302

Revising (Part 4)

303

In case you were wondering

304

Pep Talk—Your Writer’s Voice

305

Thanks for the support!

306

Pep Talk—Consistency

307

Revising (Part 3)

308

Take Your Time

309

Revising (Part 2)

310

Revising (Part 1)

311

Read any good books lately?

312

Tips for your Book launch

313

It’s Okay

314

Bookfunnel

315

Celebrate where you are

316

Camp is over! How did you do?

317

The Final Countdown

318

The Home Stretch

319

Camp Nano—Hitting the Wall

320

Pep Talk—The Comparison Game (2)

321

Writing Dialogue

322

Plot Twists

323

Camp Nano Week 2 progress—12K!

324

Pep Talk—The Comparison Game

325

Camp Nano—Freedom with my Outline

326

Thank you—Match-Made Christmas!

327

Book Launch Time!!!

328

Hallmark Book Review

329

Author Confessions: Book launch

330

Camp NaNoWriMo is back!!

331

One week left!

332

Writing Short Stories?

333

July Camp NanoWriMo

334

How to Write from your Outline

335

Author Confessions: It’ll Come

336

Behind the Scenes of Match-Made Christmas

337

How did Booksprout do?

338

Pep Talk—Discouragement

339

The Bundle

340

Story Origin Update

341

Hallmark? What?

342

Story Origin

343

One or the Other

344

Meet the Cast: Wish for Love

345

Pep Talk—Confidence as a Writer

346

Change of Plans

347

Sometimes you need to think

348

Guest Blogging

349

Pep Talk—Dealing with Rejection

350

Sparingly

351

Past or present tense?

352

Confessions of an Author: My 100th Episode!!!

353

Stay coachable

354

Are you repeating yourself?

355

Blog Tours

356

We have another guest!

357

You May Need a Pen

358

Fear of Failure/Success

359

More Tips for your Author Newsletter

360

Underwriter Tips

361

I have a Newsletter!

362

The Write Track

363

Bad Reviews

364

When Should You Start Marketing?

365

WIP—Wish for Love

366

It’s a New Month! What now?

367

How Many Drafts Do I Need?

368

That Feeling You Get

369

Writing Camp: What Did I Learn?

370

Staying Focused

371

Are you Querying?

372

Pacing your story—part 2

373

Stop Procrastinating

374

Camp NaNoWriMo Update

375

The Waiting Game

376

Long or short book?

377

Writing 13K in 4 days

378

Pacing your story—part 1

379

WIP—Christmas Therapy

380

My Writing Sprints

381

A Mailing List?

382

How many words per chapter?

383

Should I Write in Sprints?

384

How I Write

385

Should I Fast Draft?

386

The Story behind Match-Made Christmas

387

Sizing your Paperback

388

The Middle

389

Just Don’t

390

Paperbacks? Ebooks? Both?

391

Launching your Book

392

Christmas & Paperbacks in July!

393

Can I Do it Alone?

394

Should I Be Exclusive?

395

Sifting through Feedback

396

Should I Do a Giveaway?

397

Camp NaNoWriMo

398

Our First Guest!

399

Never give up

400

I’m Stuck Now What?

401

Your Social Media Platform

402

Book Reviews

403

First person vs third person narrative

404

The Normal World

405

Necessity or Splurge?

406

Dealing with Writer’s Block

407

Just Get it Written

408

Do I need both?

409

Still looking for beta readers?

410

How do you know?

411

Story Map

412

If I knew then what I know now

413

When is my book over?

414

Booksprout update!

415

Booksprout?

416

Critique Match??

417

Imposter Syndrome

418

No Head-Hopping

419

SelfPubCon2019

420

What makes a great book?

421

Revising, Revising, Revising

422

Breakup with Backstory

423

Critique Partners—part 3

424

Self Publishing Conference 2019

425

Looking for Beta Readers?

426

What the hook? Part 2

427

Critique partners—part 2

428

Pricing my book

429

Self Publishing

430

yWriter???

431

To Outline or not to Outline?

432

Symbols and Motifs

433

What the Hook?

434

How do I approach cover design?

435

Getting to know your characters

436

What’s Wattpad?

437

One Stop—Part 3

438

One Stop?

439

Hit the Send Button—part 2

440

Hit the Send Button

441

Music and Prose

442

Backstory

443

When should I publish my book?

444

My Writing Process

445

Professional Editing

446

Scenes

447

Character Arcs

448

Writer’s Guides

449

Showing and telling?

450

Critique Partners

451

A little about me

452

Writer in the Making (Trailer)