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Tend to Your Writing Dreams

No. 150.5 | By Christine Carron

This whole Goodjelly adventure started with a dream of helping writers create more confidence, ease, and flow on their writing journey. So in honor of the blog's 3-year anniversary, something a little different. 

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Tend to Your Writing Dreams

They keep you...

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Get More Writing Done Faster

No. 150.4 | By Christine Carron

One of the most powerful  actions you can take on behalf of your writing and your writing productivity is to be more intentional about how you design your writerly work. When you do, it is easier to get your writing done. Stress and struggle subside....

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7 Reasons to Get Lost on the Writing Adventure

No. 150.3 | By Christine Carron

A few days ago, I went to get a sandwich. The sandwich place is in the next town over. The normal way to get there takes me through a stretch of gnarly local traffic.

On a whim, I decided to get lost on purpose. (This was actually possible as I left my cell phone,...

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How to Cultivate Creative Confidence

No. 150.2 | By Christine Carron

I have been on a mission to improve my pushups this year. (Translation: To actually be able to do at least one solid, full-plank pushup.) I’ve made progress, but not as much as my ego would have preferred. 

The source of my struggles? My right shoulder....

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The 3 Writerly Compassions

No. 150.1 | By Christine Carron

How have you been kind to yourself and your writing this week?

The first time I stated that question aloud while teaching one of the reflection processes in Goodjelly’s Jam method, there was a collective laugh from the three writers in the...

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5 Writing Productivity "Force Multipliers"

No. 150 | By Christine Carron

One way to increase your writing productivity is to increase the number of writing productivity force multipliers you utilize. A writing productivity force multiplier is any tool, process, strategy, or tactic that helps you get your writing done with greater ease,...

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Have You Had Your Writing Tantrum Today?

No. 149 | By Christine Carron

Parker Richards opens his New York Times opinion piece, Down With Efficiency! (When We Get Around to It.), with this line: “We are no longer achieving an acceptable level of whimsy.” 

Hear, hear, Mr. Richards. And this dearth of whimsy is doubly...

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Bulk Up Your Writing Defensive Moves

No. 148 | By Christine Carron

In high school, I was both the varsity football team’s water girl and the drum major of the marching band. Fulfilling those roles required me to make quick changes behind the scoreboard both before and after halftimes. Despite my past proximity to the game, I...

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No Time For Craft Practice, Writer?

No. 147 | By Christine Carron

Are you getting as much craft practice in as you want? As much as you know would help you grow as a writer and achieve what you want on the page? If not, you are not alone.

Many writers want to have a regular craft practice but they also want to churn out their next...

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Ain't Got No Writerly Satisfaction?

No. 146 | By Christine Carron

When writers start working with me, I have them respond to a series of statements, indicating how true—or not true—each statement is for them. One of the statements asks if they are satisfied with their writing progress. 

Most writers disagree with...

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Nice Isn’t Nice for Your Writing Productivity

No. 145 | By Christine Carron

For me—and for Goodjelly—the three pillars of sustainable writing productivity are smart process, grounded power, and inner kindness. It never occurred to me to make the third pillar inner niceness.

Indeed, I’d never really thought deeply about the...

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The 2023 Goodjelly Writing Planning Compendium

No. 144 | By Christine Carron

It’s that time of year again. We are a skip, hop, and jump away from the final quarter of the year. That means even if you don’t consider yourself much of a planner, you are likely going to feel some energy pulling you to take stock, assess, and get into...

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