Become a Writer Today

Finding a mentor can help you become more creative and find success with your writing or art. This is a chapter from The Power of Creativity, available now on Audible.thepowerofcreativitybook.com--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/becomeawritertoday/messageSupport the showIf you enjoyed the show please leave a review on Apple. And if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter @BryanJCollinsThanks for listening!

James Clear is the New York Times best-selling author of Atomic Habits. He also coaches readers (and even writers) how to succeed in their personal and professional lives by reaping the rewards of smart daily decisions.In this podcast episode, he explains:How to use effective habits to write a book The value of writing just one page a dayHis process for coming up with book titles like Atomic HabitsHow writing two articles a week helped him build a business and write a New York Times best-selling bookSupport the showIf you enjoyed the show please leave a review on Apple. And if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter @BryanJCollinsThanks for listening!

Michael Jordan credits Howard H. White with supporting him throughout his 15-year career and helping him beyond the game of basketball.He's Nike's liaison for athletes such as Michael Jordan and Charles BarkleyWhite is also the author of the popular business book Believe to Achieve.In this interview, he explains:* How he wrote a popular business book * His process for setting big audacious goals* What he learnt from Michael JordanAnd lots more.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/becomeawritertoday/messageSupport the showIf you enjoyed the show please leave a review on Apple. And if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter @BryanJCollinsThanks for listening!

Meditation is a proven practice that can help writers and creative professionals find better ideas for their work too.After I wake up early, I typically meditate each morning for 10 or twenty minutes before sitting down to write. This practice can help you find better ideas for your fiction and non-fiction too.Just ask meditation coach Marianne McGuire.In this podcast episode, she explains:* The link between focusing on your breath and the blank page* How new writers can conquer feeling overwhelmed* A type of meditation practice that's perfect for writersAnd lots more.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/becomeawritertoday/messageSupport the showIf you enjoyed the show please leave a review on Apple. And if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter @BryanJCollinsThanks for listening!

Do you want to self-publish your non-fiction book?What services do you need to pay for when publishing your first book?I think you'll agree with me that there's a lot to self-publishing a book for the first time.These are just three of the questions I faced when I started self-publishing books.In this podcast, I’ll explain how to get your book ready for Amazon... today!Want more? Check out https://becomeawritertoday.com/cost-of-self-publishing/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/becomeawritertoday/messageSupport the showIf you enjoyed the show please leave a review on Apple. And if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter @BryanJCollinsThanks for listening!

Have you ever written a paragraph in your book, rewrote it, written another paragraph, and then went back and rewrote that too?And on and on and on…An hour goes by.You realise you haven't written anything at all. All you’ve done is rewrite the same part of your book.Ugh!For years, I wrote like this. I worked on my stories and ideas, and I spent hours tinkering with my sentences, moving the nouns around and looking for the right verbs. This is a terrible way to write, and in this podcast I'll explain why.Want more? Get my free self-editing checklist at https://becomeawritertoday.com/editing-checklist/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/becomeawritertoday/messageSupport the showIf you enjoyed the show please leave a review on Apple. And if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter @BryanJCollinsThanks for listening!

Over the years, I've tested dozens of digital productivity tools for setting goals and managing to-do lists. Although digital tools are useful, paper-based daily planners are becoming more popular. MiGoals is an example of an Australian company that sells these type of daily planners online.Co-founder Adam Jelic and his team created a series of daily planners and journals to help writers, entrepreneurs and creatives accomplish more each day. A former soccer player, Jelic started his business as a side-hustle in 2010, while working full-time selling photocopiers.Jelic felt motivated by the regarded Australian Football League Player, the late Jim Stynes, who encouraged people to get out of their comfort zone, face their fears, and do things that matter.So Jelic set a goal of leaving his full-time job to work at MiGoals full-time and support his family. But, how did Jelic turn this goal into reality?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/becomeawritertoday/messageSupport the showIf you enjoyed the show please leave a review on Apple. And if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter @BryanJCollinsThanks for listening!

When was the last time you had to deal with criticism?If you’ve worked with an editor, you’ll know how difficult it can be to deal with criticism.Working hard on an article only to get it back covered in red ink or with a request for a major rewrite isn’t a pleasant experience.But here’s the thing:It happens to every writer, and it’s part of the job.Failure and rejection are pit-stops along your journey to becoming a better writer.I know this from personal experience.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/becomeawritertoday/messageSupport the showIf you enjoyed the show please leave a review on Apple. And if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter @BryanJCollinsThanks for listening!

No matter what type of writer you are, setting a writing goal will help you succeed with your articles, stories and even books.In this episode, I will explain the different types of writing goals you can set and how you can track your goals. Recently I came across a great quote and a piece of advice by David Brooks who is an American writer who writes with the New York Times and other publications. He said: "Great creative minds think like artists but work like accountants." This is a fantastic piece of advice because yes, there's a time for exploring interesting ideas that you're intrigued by, but you also need to quantify what success for your writing looks like. Be honest with yourself. Ask: have you actually produced anything of merit?In other words, you need to be able to step back from your work and ask yourself, "Is this getting the job done?"--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/becomeawritertoday/messageSupport the showIf you enjoyed the show please leave a review on Apple. And if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter @BryanJCollinsThanks for listening!

Like many people, I spend way too much time thumbing through news feeds and clicking on intriguing Twitter headlines. Over the years, I've investigated various ways of reducing how long I spend staring at my feeds so I can focus more on work or unwinding come five o'clock. Today, I regularly use the app Pocket to save interesting articles I come across during the working day to my phone and read them later after I've worked through my to-do list.I wanted to discover more about how to create and write popular non-fiction articles. So I spoke to Nate Weiner, CEO of Pocket. I started by asking Nate why he created Pocket in the first place before getting into what makes for a remarkable article.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/becomeawritertoday/messageSupport the showIf you enjoyed the show please leave a review on Apple. And if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter @BryanJCollinsThanks for listening!