“Is it good?”…“Just tell me what to fix.” These are often the ways we’ve learned to ask for feedback on our writing. Yet, neither of these requests are very helpful when writing your book. In this week’s episode, I break down 4 powerful types of writing feedback to ask based on the stage of writing you…

When we are writing, we are often sharing things we’ve said before or written before. We are writing things we teach over and over. We write stories and experiences that we’ve shared before. Then, when we go to revise and edit our words, it can be difficult to really “see” whether our words are landing…

We’ve all heard the phrase “show don’t tell.” But what do we really mean by it? In this episode, I share: a brief history of the phrase how the heck it became so popular the myth around this technique that we often miss as writer how to apply this to non-fiction writing You’ll walk away…

If you have ever wondered how to even get started with your writing, then this episode is going to demystify and debunk some of the common ways we’ve learned to start a piece of writing. In this episode you’ll learn: how starting at the “beginning” keeps you stuck a powerful technique called “focused free writing”…

Do you struggle with time management? How about managing your time to write your book? Today’s special guest is Richie Norton, award-winning author and serial entrepreneur, whose latest book Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results With the Power of Time Tipping will give you a whole new perspective on (un)managing your time….

I always talk about the power of sharing your words with the world in a book. In this episode, I switch gears and talk about how writing can be a tool to process heavy sh*t you may be experiencing anytime. If you are like me, the recent events of Roe vs Wade and other social,…

Many of us think our writing needs to take readers somewhere, and needs to help them think or feel a certain way. In this episode of The Written Compass, I share how this thinking can easily keep you stuck and not writing… the very opposite of your book writing goals! I provide you with some…

When you think of punctuation, do you roll your eyes and sigh? Do you just see it as a necessary part of writing? Whatever your views and relationship with punctuation, this episode is going to give you a new perspective! I love to think of punctuation as a road map for your readers. In this…

“I know I need to build a platform before I publish.” Have you made this statement before? I had a recent client talk about this as the one thing that was keeping her from really getting into writing her book. So, I decided to create an episode that breaks down: What an author platform is?…

In this episode, I am joined by my former colleague and current book editor, Dr. Kemeshia Swanson. Dr. Swanson is an amazing college professor of English, focusing on her love of literature. She and I discussed lots of different things from her early memory of writing a letter to her parents at a young age expressing…