How to Write a Book in Your Spare Time

This lesson is a crucial beginning point for any writer who struggles to value and use their artistic voice. We’ll look at some of the ways that past experiences of speaking up have influenced your ability to do so now.

This lesson highlights several ways to begin making physical, mental, and emotional space for your creative work.

This lesson addresses the need to distill your reason for writing in general or for writing this particular book. The more concentrated your why, the more powerful your motivation.

This lesson expands on some of the somatic language used in the course, offering practices to better connect your writing with your embodied experience.

What on earth do I do when I finally sit down at my computer? This lesson offers advice on addressing your fears and establishing practices that help you bring your whole self to the work.

In this lesson, we push back against the idea that “real” writers write every day. Writing is sustainable only when we acknowledge the cyclical nature of both life and creativity.

This is the lesson for writers who have begun the work and who need a little support when dealing with questions about outlining, structure, editing while writing, setting, characterization, and dialogue.

For writers exhausted by the creative output of a completed manuscript draft, this lesson offers advice about how to prioritize rest and recovery before approaching a second draft.

Is it possible to edit your own work? This lesson is for writers who have finished a first draft (and recovered) and who are ready to upgrade their manuscript.

This lesson is for writers wondering if and how they should connect with other writers.

In this lesson, I share a bit about my writing career and come to a realization about what writing has done for me.