Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
Set Your Summer Writing Plans
It’s almost SUMMER! What’s the plan for your writing journey over the summer? There’s no write or wrong. 😉
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Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 3 min
Embrace Your Overflowing Bucket of Creativity
Embrace your overflowing bucket of ideas. This is not a leaky-roof bucket where you’re catching drips and must keep emptying it in order...
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 4 min
Focused Writing: Limit Online Distractions
Tools and habits to limit online distractions like social media, email, and “research” from sucking away your focused writing time.
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 3 min
Get to Know Your Ideal Reader
It’s hard to write a book for the masses, but it’s easy to speak to an individual. Knowing your Ideal Reader can help you write.
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 4 min
Develop Your Connection Plan (aka Marketing Plan)
Thinking of your marketing plan as a connection plan can make things easier. A connection plan starts with how you define success for...
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 3 min
Writing Prompts
A list of prompts to get you started. Some prompts are geared toward non-fiction, others for fiction.
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 3 min
Nurturing the Writer Within
What can you do today, tomorrow, later this week, or next month to nurture the writer within? Create a menu of delicious activities...
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 2 min
Get Ready to Go Mobile
At some point, you'll want to get some writing in when you're away from your usual space. What will you need to take your writing mobile?
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 3 min
Plan for Your What Ifs
Let’s do some ‘what if’ planning. If you are prepared for life to interrupt your writing but have a plan to deal with it and keep going,...
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 4 min
How much time do you need to write?
Add your getting started time + finishing up time + block of writing time together. Now grab your calendar and schedule in your next writing
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 2 min
The Organized Pen: Day 1 | Welcome
Start your writing journey today. Get tools, tips and strategies.
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 2 min
The Organized Pen: Day 2 | TIME
Find ways and grab opportunities to make your writing a priority in your life—whether it’s writing daily, twice a week, or one weekend a mon
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 2 min
The Organized Pen: Day 3 | SPACE
What will help you show up to write? What’s your writing space look like, sound like, feel like? What environment do you need?
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 3 min
The Organized Pen: Day 4 | INFORMATION
How you can get those brilliant ideas captured and safely collected.
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 2 min
The Organized Pen: Day 5 | EXTERNAL SUPPORT
Take an inventory of things and people that support or have supported your writing journey (or any of your dreams or goals).
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 3 min
The Organized Pen: Day 6 | INTERNAL SUPPORT
What’s your cue to set up to show up? Build your habit so that writing naturally follows.
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 2 min
The Organized Pen: Day 7 |Continue Your Writer’s Journey
What do you need to set up in order to show up and give your words a space to exist in this world?
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 1 min
Use Gateway Tasks to Get Started
Use gateway tasks every morning to get your brain warmed-up and ready to take on your priorities.
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 3 min
You have the Time, but do you have the Energy?
Getting things done is really about Energy management. It's about managing our energy levels (mental and physical, even emotional).
Shawndra Holmberg, CPO-CD
- 3 min
It May Not Be Procrastination
Stop assuming that you're procrastinating. Though there's no visible action, your wonderful creative mind has started the Creative Process
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