The Goodjelly Blog
No. 138 | By Christine Carron
In Aretha Franklin’s Respect, she uses the acronym TCB, or taking care of business. Goodjelly is about helping writers take care of business no matter the circumstances.
Even when we are in resistance. Perhaps especially when we’re in resistance, because...
No. 137 | By Christine Carron
At the end of last year, I decided to do some strategic thinking activities for Goodjelly. I wanted to take all the clarity I’d gained by walking the talk of this endeavor—both through the weekly blogging I’d done for two years and through welcoming...
No. 136 | By Christine Carron
It’s high summer and perhaps the last thing you are thinking about is what you are going to be doing in November. But come the day after Halloween, hundreds of thousands of writers around the globe will be participating in National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a.,...
No. 135 | By Christine Carron
I help writers get their writing done with greater ease and speed using three strategic levers: smart process, grounded power, and inner kindness. I always lead with smart process, as most writers have not been exposed to a holistic set of productivity...
No. 134 | By Christine Carron
This week I launched Goodjelly’s Youtube channel. (Wahoo!) The experience was a delightfully maddening reminder of something that I coach writers on all the time: that getting something started pretty much always takes longer than you think it will.
In honor of...
No. 133 | By Christine Carron
The plan was to write a 5-part blog series about AI and the writing adventure, but one post in—last week’s—and I’m done. The research got a bit too much. Too unsettling. The opinion intensity in many of the articles swung from songs of...
No. 132 | By Christine Carron
In one of my entrepreneurial groups, members are enthusiastically swapping prompts they’ve fed into ChatGPT in order to speed up content generation. Prompts to direct the tool to: brainstorm ideas, organize thoughts, draft marketing copy,...
No. 131 | By Christine Carron
For the bulk of my teenage years, I was on a mission to find a best friend. A true “kindred spirit.” I fully admit the somewhat rabid intensity of my undertaking was one hundred percent fueled by Anne’s adventures in and around Green Gables. I mean,...
No. 130 | By Christine Carron
I was knocked sideways last week in the most delightful way. It was one of those moments that grabs hold of you and makes you realize, “Wow, my life is cool.” I’m going to tell you what happened, but I need you to prepare yourself. I mean,...
No. 129 | By Christine Carron
I’ve been a process improvement consultant for decades. If you view process as dull and restrictive, you might think that sounds like a terribly boring career. Rest assured, I’ve found it fascinating. Here’s how I frame what I’ve...
No. 128 | By Christine Carron
In an entrepreneurial group I’m in, a woman shared that she had launched a sales campaign for a new program. That meant, among other things, she’d thought through the program itself, made the sales page, designed the email sequence, was promoting it on...
No. 127 | By Christine Carron
A tennis lesson for primary school kids was in progress on the community courts at a local park. Scads of six- and seven-year-olds were practicing forehands, running drills, and one boy kept swinging his left leg around whenever he took his turn. “This...
