The Goodjelly Blog
No. 161 | By Christine Carron
Imagine you have to (get to) eat a pizza. A big pizza. Do you pick up the whole pizza and start chowing down? No. You pick up one slice. Do you eat the whole slice at once? No. You take one bite at a time.
It’s impossible to eat a pizza in one bite. Even trying to eat...
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, conf...
No. 141 | By Christine Carron
Stinginess is an unwillingness to spend and a lack of generosity. “Inner Stinginess” is the phrase I coined for the tendency I’ve noticed in myself and other writers that adds an edge of harshness to how we run our writing adventures.
For example, we experience inner ...
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., NaNoWriM...
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, if an orphan girl c...
No. 126 | By Christine Carron
I think a lot about how to make progress. Arguably that focus started when I was ten when, to defray the costs of my dance lessons, I started serving as an assistant to my local dance teacher, helping instruct the “little kids.” In high school, college, and graduate sc...
No. 121 | By Christine Carron
Prioritization is a key skill to master if you want more ease and flow on your writing adventure. It helps you steer clear of burnout, boosts your motivation, and allows you to take charge of your creative process on a deeper level. It strengthens your mindset by decre...
No. 116 | By Christine Carron
Here is the origin story of Goodjelly. I was at a Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators national conference in New York City and was sitting in the main ballroom between sessions, honoring my introvert soul by taking a decompression break. Most of the room ...
No. 111 | By Christine Carron
This is the fifth and final post in the Goodjelly Moves series. Each of the five Moves represents a core quality or energy needed to ace the writing adventure. The Moves framework conveys the reality that productivity is, like the seasons, cyclical—requiring both activ...
No. 105 | By Christine Carron
Completing an annual celebration is a way to frame a year of writing in a positive, powerful way. According to Canadian-American psychologist Albert Bandura, the acknowledgement of past accomplishments is one source of self-efficacy. [1] Since self-efficacy relates to ...
No. 100 | By Christine Carron
In The Way of Goodjelly masterclass, I teach a strategic blueprint for the writing adventure that has three key pillars, or resolutions. Land your Jam, which is all about using smart process to add ease and flow to your writing adventure. Own your Oomph, which is about...
By Christine Carron
Today is National Encouragement Day. Find a writer, or writers, and lay some encouragement on them. Consider it your Goodjelly move of the day.Â
Goodjelly’s not-so-stealth mission is to teach writers how to unleash their writing progress. How? By teaching them the same process ...
