Since we’ve been talking about being stuck lately, and given the events of the last week (month, year, decade), I haven’t been able to write much either, I wanted to share a quick exercise that I used to do with my writer’s group when I didn’t know what to write. When I first started actively…
I’ve been watching Drive to Survive the last few days while I’m catching up on emails and doing admin work, and I. Have. Thoughts. First is: Anyone with Strengths that like to be the “best”… I so get why you like this sport and this series so much. It reminds me of how I felt…
We had a question in the Strengths for Writers Facebook group about tricking our Futuristic into accomplishing that future, and I shared something there that I wanted to share here. As a high Futuristic/Strategic, I do something I call “One Thing Today.” Given that my goal is X (or my hope of what I want…
As we finished up the BeccaCon21 conference, I shared something at the very end that I want to share here. On my refrigerator, I have a picture of my favorite person in the world. My grandma. She’s with two of her best friends, plus me and my best friend from high school (who is the…
We had a great question in the SFW FB group today that I answered and I wanted to expand just a little on it as we are heading into the fall, where a lot of us will have a heavier writing schedule after kids go back to school. The question was about struggling with critique.…
Every day, Becca gets new emails or comments asking “what happens if I…” And while she might answer a question in one place, not everyone sees it. So “Dear Becca” was created to answer some of the coaching questions Becca gets publically, in order to help everyone. The “Dear Becca” weekly coaching column is available…
Because so many have been asking, and because I think I’m gonna want to have a record of this when I’m done, I’ll post my Covid “diary” here. It’s 2021 and I’m feeling much better now. But here were my thoughts when I had Covid in 2020. Day One (Wednesday, December 2, 2020) Temp: 99.5…
One of the conversations I’ve been having a lot lately is about how long it takes for success to happen, sometimes. We ask the questions, “am I sure I’m doing this right?” and “why is it not happening for me?” and “what am I doing wrong?” like success is an expected thing. Not that we…
This is the final (for now, to be fair) episode of the Writer’s Block series. I thought the last episode would be the final, but as we’ve been discussing the series in staff, I realized that there’s still one more thing I have to say about Writer’s Block. On some level, we have to assume…
You know me (#Strategic / #Arranger), and I’m always looking for ways to save us all time, and I can’t believe it has taken me so long to find Book Brush. I first heard about it last year at NINC and, honestly, I thought it was a fad. I was already using Canva. I figured…