Why Your Content Strategy Should Match Your Personality (Not Someone Else’s)
There is a specific kind of tired that comes from executing someone else’s strategy for long enough.It is not the tired of working hard — that kind of tired has something satisfying underneath it, the ache of effort that went somewhere. This is a different kind. It is the tired of spending significant energy on […]
The Author Life Nobody Talks About (And Why Introverts Are Built for It)
Before I started writing seriously, my idea of an author’s life came almost entirely from the wrong sources.I had absorbed it from author panels at literary festivals, from the memoir sections of writing craft books, from profiles in magazines where writers talked about their work while photographed in beautiful libraries or at cluttered-but-charming desks with […]
What Thriving Quietly Actually Looks Like in Practice
Nobody tells you that success can feel lonely in a specific way when it does not match the shape you were told it would take.I had a moment a couple of years into building this, when things were genuinely going well by most measurable standards — the newsletter was growing, the writing was finding readers, […]
Marketing as an Introvert — What Works, What Doesn’t, and What to Stop Doing
I remember the exact moment I decided I was bad at marketing.I was sitting in the back row of a workshop about building your author platform. The facilitator was energetic and well-meaning and kept using phrases like “get out there” and “make some noise” and “you have to be willing to put yourself in front […]
Decluttering Your Mind Starts With Your Workspace
The worst writing period I can point to in recent memory was also the period when my desk was at its most chaotic.I do not think this was a coincidence. At the time I told myself the mess did not bother me, that I knew where everything was, that creative people worked in chaos and […]
How to Build a Writing System That Works When Motivation Doesn’t
The most productive writing period of my life happened during a stretch when I was also deeply unhappy. Not catastrophically so — nothing dramatic. Just the low-grade difficult of a season that had too much in it, where the personal and professional were both asking more than felt reasonable and the creative work was the […]
5 Things Organized Writers Do Before 9AM
I used to think morning routines were for people with a certain kind of discipline I did not possess. The ones I read about in books and productivity blogs involved things like cold plunges and forty-five minute meditations and journaling sessions that somehow produced three pages of insight before 6AM. They sounded less like routines […]