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Episodes
HW 01-09 How Summer Changes the Writing Life
AKA: How to take a break. How to make the most of your summer, or of any time you’re able to take a break. Crazy as it seems, it can take courage, planning, and effort to rest - but it’s worth it. Just planning a...
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HW 01-08 Learn From Our Idiot Moves
Real stories we’re embarrassed by today - that seemed like such good ideas at the time. BUT we can learn from it, and laugh at ourselves, and use it to motivate ourselves, right? Brian's story of how NOT to get an...
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HW 01-07 Overwhelmed? How to Save Your Writing Life
Writing can take a lot out of you. How can you move forward and be creative when you feel like you’ve been doing things a certain way forever? How can you make the most of your writing energy? The answer: You need to...
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HW 01-06 Steal Our Genius Moves
Ideas we’ve tried for living and working that have turned into genius moves that help us as writers, and that that have made life easier, better, and more fulfilling. Steal ours or come up with your own! You never...
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HW 01-05 Should You Blog?
Should you blog? Is blogging dead? Can blogging help your goals as a writer? If so, how? How has blogging changed? What’s the best way to use a blog? If Emily and Myquillyn started a blog today, what would they do?...
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HW 01-04 Unlikely Writing Teachers
Here’s what we can learn from
unlikely writing teachers like Taylor Swift, Bob Marley, Stacy
London from ‘What Not to Wear,’ Lorne Michaels from SNL,
philosopher Marcus Aurelius, and more. Writing school is all...
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HW 01-03 Instagram for Writers
For the hope writer, Instagram
can be special - it’s another way to share your message and give
hope. But we need to think of it purposefully if we want to have
followers who engage with us and our message. How do you...
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HW 01-02 BONUS Pt 2 What I Wish I'd Known
Part 2 - Three first-time authors share what they wish they'd known before they wrote their first books - HopeWriters Deidra Riggs, Mary Carver, and Amber C Haines.
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HW 01-01 What I Wish I'd Known Before I Wrote My First Book (Pt 1)
Learn from our experience what we wish we’d know before we published our first books - the difference between blogging and book writing, how to have a professional attitude, overcoming endorsement fear, ideas for...
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Myquillyn's system for taking a break
Myquillyn shares her system to make the most of downtime and seasons of breaks
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Simply Tuesday
Emily's new book! Why we love small, slow, and ordinary.
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What only summer can teach me
School's out and summer takes over - and we love what it's taching
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