There are a number of steps to take before you decide to publish a book, but we're going to zoom in on six today. These steps are key to helping you get clear on your publishing goals and also what steps to take before you move forward with publishing. Check them out below and begin to do a mental cross off of what you have finished and what you need to do next.

Let me be the first to warn you, the resistance in writing will be real. You will hit road blocks. You will be confronted by feelings and stories that rise up like resurrected ghosts. You will want to run away, hide, shut the whole project done. Please for the love of all that’s writing, don’t give in to that voice of resistance.

Everyone has what I call a writing personality, which makes how we approach the page unique to each one of us. You must honor your writing personality rather than trying to be someone you’re not. I am a big believer that the reason we struggle with writer’s block and imposter syndrome is because we do not understand who we are as a writer and creative

One of the most common questions I get from my writing clients is how do I get started on my book? Where do I even begin? I love this question so much, because like many questions there are often deeper questions underneath them.

As a 3/5 projector, Joan Didion was set up perfectly in her genre of investigative journalism. The martyr in her line three makes her endlessly learning through a cycle of trial and error, creating a fountain of wisdom through lived experience. The line five makes her the heretic, and is actually considered a creative rebel, perfect for someone wanting to break the rules for a story.

Transition. Even the word makes me fidgety in my seat. Why is transition so difficult, yet so meaningful? What about it brings up so many emotions? Perhaps, transition is a mirror to our nomadic spirit, bringing light to restlessness, avoidance, and the impulse to move on.

The Artist Date is meant to awaken something in you akin to how you would play as a child. Consider that, what did you love to do? Maybe that is launching point for you to begin.

Writing A Fiction Memoir. It sounds like a contradiction, right? To write a story that is both and not true simulaneously. This style of writing is becoming more and more popularized as auto-fiction or autobiographical fiction.

Virginia Woolf was a 4/6 splenic manifestor with an active artist channel. She was created to create and share with the world, and along the way disrupt the norm with her powerful storytelling. Her design set her up to be visionary and make an impact, as we know she did since she was one of the most renown 20th century authors and leaders in inspired feminism.

A key component of somatic writing is engaging the senses. This is powerful because it brings our body to the page, offering awareness and presence to the very moment. It is not uncommon to disconnect from the body because of ongoing stress or triggered trauma experiences.

“What would you write if you weren’t afraid?”

I remember the first time I read this question in Mary Karr’s book, The Art of Memoir, and I knew the answer immediately. I was suppose to write about my life, about trauma, about hurting, and ultimately about healing. Knowing that answer didn’t bring immediate action though, instead it brought avoidance.

Every time I hear someone say they’ve discovered their life’s calling, I wonder how they have arrived at this place with such certainty. There is a twinge of envy towards such a concrete statement, as well as irritation when it turns back to me as a gnawing question, ‘have you arrived yet?’

Human Design is a wonderful tool to understand ourselves better and how we best operate in the world. I wish I had known about this years ago as it has given me such validation as a writer, artist, and coach. You don’t have to feel lost, blocked, and confused– you can be clear and validated in your desire when you understand your unique design.

I’ve loved words since I was little. I would read them, write them, create sentences just to fit them into even if they didn’t make sense. These words were a nest I could crawl inside, hide, and yet be discovered by all at the same time.

I work with a lot of women writing memoir, which I believe is some of the bravest and hardest material we could write. Why? Well.. there is an art to writing memoir. Writer and memoir queen, Mary Karr believed it so much she even titled her book The Art of Memoir.