‘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.
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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.
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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.
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How to manage self-criticism, be a badass breadwinner (if you want to!) and how to make progress when your plans are a mess.
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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?
Guest Speaker – Bec Evans
How to stay resilient while developing, writing and submitting your books; how to choose between ideas; should you stay with your agent when you don’t fancy sending them your new book, even though they’re lovely?; Sophie interviews Bec Evans, author of ‘Written’ – a brilliant book about productivity for writers.