Archives for March 2013

Listen to the audio (4:33) [audio:http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/authorcartel/Rule%201.4%20-%20core%20motivation.mp3] Download MP3 When did you first dream up the idea of being a writer? I first wanted to become a writer through reading. I remember reading a book that touched me so deeply that, seemingly for the first time, I felt understood, like I wasn’t alone. And then I […]

Listen to this lesson (3:54) [audio:http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/authorcartel/Rule%201.3%20-%20why%20share%20your%20story.mp3] Download MP3 We take words for granted, especially words like story and share that we’ve heard since children. These are the kinds of words I love looking up in the dictionary because the definitions always surprise me. For example, the word “story” means, “A narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader,” according to Dictionary.com. What […]

Listen to this lesson (0:47) [audio:http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/authorcartel/Rule%201.2%20-%20objective.mp3] Download MP3 Why are you taking this course? What do you want to get out of your writing at all? Are you trying to: A. Become a (traditionally) published author B. Be able to write full-time C. Publish an international best-seller D. Build a writing “career,” even if you […]

We all have different definitions of what “success” looks like for our writing, and before we talk more about how to cultivate success in our writing, it’s important that we talk about what success means to us. Which is why I invited one of my mentors, Keith Jennings, to share about his own wrestling with […]