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?
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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
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Sophie and Dream Authors share updates re progress on their various projects.
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How to deal with the ‘messy middle’ when planning your book; progress updates from Dream Authors; some impromptu live coaching!
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This week Sophie combined a Projects & Progress update (for a DA and for her own work) with a general DA webinar. Lots covered!
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‘Guilty Motivations’ and how to manage them and all about boundaries.
Welcome to Year 4 of The Dream Author Experience/Projects and Progress
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
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Sophie’s Projects and Progress/Experiential Results update; other Dream Authors’ updates; how to develop and deepen secondary characters; whether to remove the humour from a novel or leave it in; an explanation of how Literary Diagnostics works.
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Dream Authors and Sophie give updates on their Projects and Progress; Sophie talks about Brooke Castillo’s latest podcast episode, and the four areas in which it makes sense to think about ‘getting better’ in terms of your performance; how to stay sane while waiting to hear back from publishers; a Double Best Method analysis of a Dream Author’s decision; Sophie coaches a Dream Author who’s worried she’s not creative.
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What is the purpose of the Projects and Progress/Experiential Results calls? What they are, and how to approach them; choosing what to write:do you need to do another writing course?; Sophie’s plans, project-wise and experiential; how to prioritise and move forward?; how to make sure overwhelm doesn’t halt progress; choosing where to put your creative energy – into which project?; when an hour a day to write suddenly seems like not enough.