SPA Girls Podcast – EP438 – Overcoming Procrastination – with Kathryn Burnett
Mar06

SPA Girls Podcast – EP438 – Overcoming Procrastination – with Kathryn Burnett

Procrastination takes many forms for writers, and it holds us back from writing, publishing and promoting our work. We discuss how to get out of your own way with our guest today, Kathryn Burnett. Kathryn is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, author and writing coach who has worked in the television/film/arts industry for over 25 years.

“It’s never been easier to put your work into the world and yet many writers don’t write as productively as they’d like to. They have the best intentions in the world but find themselves distracted, anxious about their work and deeply unsatisfied with their progress.” Kathryn Burnett

Kathryn offers practical tips for us all to:

✔️ Identify the red flags of perfectionism

✔️ Uncover how you are procrastinating and then how to deal with this

✔️ Why self-reflection is so important – ask yourself “Why am I not prioritizing my writing at the moment?”

✔️ Time blocking

✔️ Wrestling with doubts and demons

Resources mentioned:

Kathryn’s non-fiction book for writers – Productive Writer Guidebook

Julia Cameron’s morning pages in The Artist’s Way

Reedsy’s free newsletter for writers

About Kathryn Burnett

Kathryn Burnett has been a working writer for over 25 years and truly understand the challenges that come with creative work. When she’s not writing, she runs craft workshops and programmes under the Beginner’s Guide Writing Workshops umbrella – and facilitate an awesome subscription-based group called The Writing Room.

Sign up to her newsletter for regular insights, tips and workshop updates at www.kathryn-burnett.com


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SPA Girls EP – 429 – How To Create Your Author Business Plan
Jan03

SPA Girls EP – 429 – How To Create Your Author Business Plan

Business Planning for authors isn’t too often discussed, but the minute you go from hobbyist writer to publishing-for-profit, congratulations! You’re now a business entrepreneur.

So what is a business plan? It’s the foundation of your business, a road map of your business structure, future projects, markets, earnings and expenses.

It sounds more complicated than it needs to be. With that in mind, we’ve put together a simple SPA Girls Business Plan template you can download for free from https://www.selfpublishingauthorspodcast.com/businessplan/

Completing this as you’re recovering from the holiday season could be just the ticket to kicking off your new year with a clear mind and solid goals.

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⭐ Join us at the $10 tier, and you’ll be invited to our private Self-Publishing Mastermind group for authors, where we discuss all things self-publishing, marketing and writing PLUS answer all your questions. Come on in and join us, we’d love to see you there!

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SPA Girls Podcast – EP427 – Our 12 Christmas Wishes for you!
Dec20

SPA Girls Podcast – EP427 – Our 12 Christmas Wishes for you!

We’re celebrating you, our wonderful listeners, in the SPA today by sharing our 12 Christmas Wishes for you and your self-publishing journey.

We want you to know how special to us. We’re so proud of this journey we’ve all embarked on and with what everyone has achieved. No matter where you are in the publishing process, it really is time to celebrate!

May your holiday be filled with love, joy, good food, fun, books and time to relax and recharge yourself. 🥰

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SPA Girls Podcast – EP423 – Turn Setbacks Into Success
Nov22

SPA Girls Podcast – EP423 – Turn Setbacks Into Success

Bumps on the publishing path are unwelcome yet inevitable and they can affect us in a variety of ways. So how can we reset ourselves when the wobbles and disappointment set in?

Today we’ve got a SPA Girls 6 – Step Guide to turning those setbacks into success:

  1. Embrace The Rain
  2. Reheat The Pasta
  3. Rapunzel It
  4. Be Like A Dog
  5. Jump Off The Cliff
  6. Be An Antelope, Not A Hyena

(For an explanation of these and how to use them, you need to listen or watch the episode!)

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SPA Girls Podcast – EP419 – The Best Mindset for Organisation and Productivity with Sarra Cannon
Oct24

SPA Girls Podcast – EP419 – The Best Mindset for Organisation and Productivity with Sarra Cannon

Self-publishing since 2010, Amazon top 100 best-selling Amazon author with 1 million books sold, Sarra writes magical contemporary fantasy novels with both teen and college aged characters (and lots of twists you’ll never see coming).

Do you feel like a hamster on a wheel?

Sarra talks to us about her solution to planning without all the heartache and leading us to be more joyful. “When we sit down to plan we see the perfect scenario. Then Life gets in the way.”

About Sarra Cannon:

Sarra Cannon writes magical contemporary fantasy novels with both teen and college aged characters (and lots of twists you’ll never see coming). Her novels often stem from her own experiences growing up in the small town of Hawkinsville, Georgia, where she learned that being popular always comes at a price and relationships are rarely as simple as they seem.

With over a million books sold, Sarra loves writing witchy books and connecting with fans.

You can connect with her on her author website here at SarraCannon.com

Click to visit Sarra’s Heartbreathings YouTube channel for authors, and Heartbreathings website with her courses for writers here

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SPA Girls Podcast – EP415 – How To Get Unstuck
Sep27

SPA Girls Podcast – EP415 – How To Get Unstuck

There are many ways we get stuck as authors.

Some ways you can get stuck is in the writing, editing, time management and making decisions areas.

Getting unstuck is much harder and yet easier than we think. Letting go of perceptions of our writing or our characters helped Trudi a great deal when she put off writing the last book in a series – for years!

Cheryl had to get past the fear of getting edits back and find a way to embrace the process to get them done.

For Shar, it’s being done with the book and accepting it. No one wants to put up sub-standard work and we all do our very best to make sure that happens, but agonizing over a book doesn’t move you forward.

We discuss how to do these things while facing fears and preconceptions, as well as the overwhelm of too many ideas and choices.

Some tools to help:

Plottr

Watching a program or reading a book that deals with plot holes or backstory that doesn’t feel forced, an info dump, or out of character.

The Last of US – recommended by Cheryl is a series that weaves in the backstory as part of each episode.

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