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Joshua Pior

6 min

Why You Should Set Crazy Writing Goals (Without Sacrificing Your Sanity)

There’s more to believing the impossible than meets the eye. Crazy is a gateway to something far more realistic.

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Joshua Pior

4 min

Why Writers Are the Most Influential People in the World

You have power as an author that no other world leader will ever have. And you need to use it.

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Joshua Pior

7 min

How to Get Interested in Your Characters Again

The reason you're tired of your main character is probably not what you think. Here's a guaranteed way to make them likable again. (Really!)

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Joshua Pior

5 min

Stop Trying to Be Someone Else

Your weaknesses as a writer can't be solved by trying another writer's method. I tried, and it almost killed my work.

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Joshua Pior

5 min

Of Hats and Letters

By nature, caps are worn to shade the eyes. But his seemed to shade his soul.

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Joshua Pior

3 min

The Power of Writing Every Single Day

What if I told you that you could write a novel and fifty-two blog posts in just one year—and it's easier than you think?

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Joshua Pior

2 min

How Stories Actually Teach Us

Stories have held our interest for all of time ... but do you know what makes them so irresistible?

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Joshua Pior

4 min

How I Made a Daily Writing Habit (That Actually Works!)

Three cool tips to help you form a daily writing habit that sticks—today!

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Joshua Pior

6 min

How to Know if You Are Talented

There is usually incredible talent hiding behind certain well-known negative traits. What's your hidden gift?

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Joshua Pior

3 min

The Key to Staying Creative

When you are busy at work on a writing project, it can be easy to overlook this one simple key ... and it's dangerous to forget it.

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Joshua Pior

4 min

Confessions of an Ex-Pessimist

It's personal confession time. What changed me from a hardcore pessimist to a sold-out optimist?

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Joshua Pior

6 min

5 Ways to Make Your Own Inspiration

When you’re stuck for inspiration and you don’t know what to do, follow these five tips to get your creativity flowing again.

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Joshua Pior

4 min

The Secret to Getting Ideas

Turns out, there IS a magic formula to getting ideas for your story. And you're probably already doing the first step.

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Joshua Pior

3 min

How to Fight Burnout

Fatigue is very real, especially when you write every day—producing consistent content, but burning yourself out. The answer? Listening.

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Joshua Pior

3 min

Why We Need to Create

There's an inborn urge within all of us to create, express, design. Why?

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Joshua Pior

3 min

How to Beat Discouragement

I'll admit, sometimes I feel like I never finish what I start. But that feeling is a lie ... so why do we believe it? And how do we beat it?

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Joshua Pior

3 min

Are You Qualified to Write?

Have you ever wanted to do something you love, but then get cold feet? Here's some encouragement. You're not the only one.

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