Writing Career Success Is An Inside Job: Take Yourself With You

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I tackle tough topics in The Writer’s Workout that most other writing teachers and coaches would not touch with a ten-foot blog post.

For example: your career, if you’re going to have one, is your job. Don’t look to others to take care of what is already your responsibility.

I have learned some big lessons throughout the course of a ten-year writing career about my role in other people’s creative processes. And in order to set a good example for my students, I have taken those lemons and I turned them into lemonade. (I ask them to do this all the time, so it seems only fair that I should do it too.) The results are in The Writer’s Workout.

I hope you will order the book and read it and get to work in a thoughtful, productive manner. If you can read this book all the way through without bopping yourself on the side of the head and saying, “Doink. Yup. I’ve done that,” or “Yes! I already do that–one less thing I have yet to learn,” let me know.

You don’t have to trade in the life you already have for someone else’s idea of what your writing career should look like.

You can just start carving out a writing career from right where you are in a calm, sane manner starting today.

And I hope you will.

Show us how it’s done.