Projects & Progress

This week Sophie combined a Projects & Progress update (for a DA and for her own work) with a general DA webinar. Lots covered!

‘Guilty Motivations’ and how to manage them and all about boundaries.

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.

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.

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.

How to manage self-criticism, be a badass breadwinner (if you want to!) and how to make progress when your plans are a mess.

Sophie live coaches two Dream Authors; How to have the ‘Present Moment Lee Child’ experience!; Sophie’s thoughtword around making a movie – was it more/harder thoughtwork than usual?