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Love these moments 🥰
October 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Remember that kid who dreamed of being a writer? She’s still here.
Join me for Lunch with the Writer You Used to Be—a two-hour writing workshop + lunch in Midtown Manhattan.
You’ll leave with a clear plan, real momentum, and new creative connections.
October 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Dorie Clark has given me many of lessons on her LinkedIn Learning classes and in her articles for Harvard Business Review, and last night she gave me a lesson in creative freedom.
September 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Freedom App takes away the choice to look at social media now or not, so you have the focus to write.

As part of the “Nix distractions” element of the FINISH Framework, we give it to all our coaching students.
September 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Enrollment closes Friday at 3 p.m.
2 seats left in The Finishing School for Writers.

This small group offers structure, accountability, and a community of writers who understand what it feels like to want this badly and finally do something about it.
September 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Bought a pair of nunchucks. Accidentally found a metaphor for writing.

They started as farming tools—meant to feed people.
Then life happened, and they became weapons.

Sound familiar? Our voice begins as something creative. Then gets repurposed to survive the world.
September 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
How long have you been circling your writing goals? Maybe it's time to stop trying to do it alone.

The Finishing School for Writers provides structure, support, and people who cheer you on and notice when you're not showing up.
September 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Rejection makes our brains panic. They have
As Alice Draper (host of My Rejection Story) told us:
"Our survival, historically, has depended on being accepted by our tribe. So we don't want to be rejected because that part of our brain thinks the risk is just as high to send a pitch and get rejected
September 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Cass came in my coaching program knowing how to write academically. What she wanted was to tell stories with authority and heart.

She did a round of coaching with me, then came back for more, and then signed up again.
September 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
She's won an Emmy, but she couldn't get her book out of her head... for seven years.

Then @ryanecunningham joined The Finishing School for Writers. She started showing up to our daily writing sessions, getting in community, and making plans in our goal-setting meetings.
September 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Have you ever truly given yourself the accountability, community, and structure you need to finish your work?

It took me years to gift this to myself, and only once I had it around me did I realize why I had wasted so much time languishing in drafts.
September 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🎁 Want 30 minutes of free 1:1 coaching?
I’m giving one session away during my free webinar Trauma Kitchen: Turning Struggles into Stories, on Wednesday, Sept 10 at 5 p.m. ET.
September 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🎁 Want 30 minutes of free 1:1 coaching?
I’m giving one session away during my free webinar Trauma Kitchen: Turning Struggles into Stories, on Wednesday, Sept 10 at 5 p.m. ET.
September 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Non-writers: "Oh, cool."

Writer friends: screaming, throwing confetti, plotting your book tour.

That first acceptance hits different when the people around you actually get it.
August 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Is an publication the end-all be-all? No

Are you still a writer even when you get rejections? Yes

Do I still shimmy when I get an acceptance? Hell yes.
August 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Keep on submitting writers.

#taylor #amwriting
August 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
POV: You finally have writer friends.

Which means:
👉 Misery has company during revision season.
👉 Joy has company when you hit submit.
👉 And you don’t have to explain why you’re crying over a paragraph.

Turns out, writing was never meant to be a solo sport.
August 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🚨 New post is up at Freelancing With Tim!

How do you go from pitching editors to having them text you assignments?

That’s what I’m breaking down in my latest piece: Beyond the pitch: How to get editors to come to *you*

Hint: it’s less “shark tank” and more “ice cream man.”
August 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
When my coaching student Callie got her first piece published, this was how it felt.

Now I want to know your story: what was the last accomplishment that made you cry?
August 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Thank you, Roxane Gay ❤️

This will keep me going for at least the next year

#writingcommunity
August 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
What does it mean to be a Powerhouse Writer?

Bethany McCamish is one! She and I keep hiring each other back and forth — she as my branding guru, me as her writing coach.
August 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I’m still glowing from this weekend 🤩 I won 2nd place in the Suitcase Awards at the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference.

This year’s theme, “Travel as a force for connection in turbulent times,” reminded me of a story I had brewing, which Don George described thusly:
August 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
7 years ago today, Welcome to the Writer’s Life came into the world.

It’s the book I wish I’d had when I was starting out, full of the habits, tools, and mindset shifts that turn “I want to write” into “I’m a writer.”

If you’ve been waiting for a sign to start, this is it.
August 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
On my third attempt, finally got into the Advanced Narrative Workshop at the Book Passage Travel Writer’s Conference. 🙌🏻

Yet another time I almost didn’t apply because I didn’t think I had anything that would get me in.

Don’t self-reject! Shoot your shot.

#WritingCommunity #TravelWriting
August 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🎉 7 years ago today!
August 14, 2018
I got to launch my book baby into the world.

Thank you to every reader, student, and fellow writer who’s kept this book alive and in conversation all these years.
August 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM