Experiential Results

When you feel powerless and disconnected; what to do if your writing feels performative; what to do when you think everything’s a mess and feel overwhelmed.

Sophie’s super-ambitious (and possibly insane!) latest Progress update; a Dream Author’s Progress and Projects/Experiential Results Update; the importance of Advantageous Thinking (when you feel as if your hard work might never pay off); how to stay positive when you’ve been waiting for ages for feedback; should you give up on a publisher when they’ve not got back to you within the promised time frame?; can you be bothered to improve your book?

Sophie’s progress/experiential update; a Dream Author’s progress/experiential update; polish or send?; what counts as ‘use of AI’ and will it put agents off?; ambition versus safety (and what if it isn’t a ‘versus’?)

How to move forward after a disappointing round of submissions; the Good Book/Immediate Hook Equation; updates from Dream Authors on their projects/Experiential Results; going easy on yourself versus setting ambitious goals? ; tackling the Dream Author workbooks?; should your book have an ambiguous ending?; how often should you mention important backstory events?

Projects and progress updates from some of us; when you keep making some progress, and then backing off; are you submitting to too many agents too soon?; how to stop feeling as if you’ve fallen short; why/how understanding the importance of Experiential Results makes it easier to achieve great ones; reverse-engineering a Double Best decision from your Dream Goal

New assignments for the New Year; new plans for the Dream Author Slack channel: Sophie’s thoughts, retrospectively, follow up on her ‘Ahead and Behind’ method; how to deal with anxiety and disappointment when things go wrong; the crucial difference between disappointment and discouragement

The advantages of Wrong Order Writing; the benefits of Try It and See; how to handle past and present timelines when you want to make the present day one more prominent; Ursula LeGuin’s daily schedule, and what we can learn from it; two podcast recommendations.

Progress, projects, updates, Sophie’s new way of writing which is *amazing* and much better than her old way, and coaching on: when we fear our next book will be a disappointment, and how to visit the worst case scenario in the future in order to disempower it.