Picture this: you’re running late for a meeting with your supervisor. You spill half your coffee when the jerk in front of you slams on his brakes for seemingly no reason. When you arrive, breathless and sweating at your meeting spot you remember that it was changed at the last…

I swallowed hard, my pulse pounding in my throat. I wished suddenly and very hard that I’d never signed up for this. Why had I thought hiring a writing coach would help me? Soon my coach came on the line. Within the first few minutes of our discussion, my shoulders…

Are you a writer who hates marketing? Join the club. Not the “I’m too good for marketing and my writing is so precious I shouldn’t have to stoop to telling people about it” club. I’m talking more the “Marketing is a time-consuming and soul-sucking practice that I force myself to…

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay You’ve done the hard work: dedicated the hours, blood, sweat…

It’s three o'clock a.m., and you stare wide-eyed at the ceiling. Should you get up and do something? Lay there and try to fall back asleep? You toss and turn, trying not to think about the big meeting scheduled at nine sharp. Finally, you drift off. …

Hathai slumped in her chair, mind racing. Her team leader had said she was sure to get the promotion. But once again, she’d been passed over. “Why is it always me?” Hathai pecks furiously at her keyboard, trying to hold back the tears. …

I knew I was in trouble when walking past my office made a knot in my stomach. I’d circled burnout before. I had to figure out a way to get back on track. Fast. When you make your living from your words you don’t have time for things like writer’s…

Do you dream of leaving your job to write full-time? Want to get a big publishing contract and say au revoir to your 9–5? I hear you. I used to assume, wrongly, that I couldn’t be a decent writer unless I could dedicate all my time to it. The online…

When I was in the sixth grade, I weighed more than I do now, in my 40s. I wrote about my experience growing up as “the fat kid”. I plan to write another article about what it was like losing 60 pounds when I was 13. If You Grew Up Thin, You’re Missing This Key Weight-Related Insight As a mostly plant-based…