Writing is hard work.
Don’t laugh.
Writers may not move mountains, literally, but we often do so with our minds. To be a successful writer, you need to write. To write, you need to conquer obstacles and writing blocks that arise. And you need to do that quickly.
USA Today bestselling author Kelly McClymer is here to help with her podcast Hack Your Muse. Find the right hack to bust your block and get back to writing without delay.
Transcript: Beth Barany
00:00 Welcome Muse Hackers, you’re listening to the Hack Your Muse podcast with Kelly McClymer. Our mission is to help you discover your muse, and write what you want, when you want, and how you want. Today’s guest is Beth Barany, an award-winning novelist, a master neurolinguistic programming practitioner, and a creativity coach for writers.
02:00 What even is a neurolinguistic programming practitioner?
04:30 What do you think of when you hear ‘writing muse’? The mystery, the big capital M.
06:55 When you sit down to write and you don’t write, how do you handle that?
13:10 Do you remember the first time you sat down and wrote something?
24:00 How vivid is what you want to write in your mind? Is it misty?
25:50 What’s your #1 go-to cat to get the writing done?
30:20 Find Beth Barany online. Find her on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @BethBarany, and at Bethbarany.com. To access her best resources, go to the writersfunzone.com blog.
If you love this podcast and want to support it with real dollars and cents, I have the perfect course for you on teachable. Meet Your Muse is a minicourse that will show you how to unleash the power of your muse while at the same time reining in some of her most creativity crushing bad habits. If you spend more time thinking about writing than actually writing, Meet Your Muse can help you turn that around. Once you’ve met your muse, you will have the keys to creating the most productive writing sessions ever, even if you only have 10 minutes a day to write.
Remember one page a day, 250 words, equals 364 pages (about 90,000 words). That could be two short books, or one good-sized book, or five or six or more short stories, articles, or blog posts. Isn’t that worth $20 in two hours or less of your time? The best perk, you will be supporting this podcast to continue seeking out the best muse hacking writers around and sharing that wisdom with you for free.
To sign up for Meet Your Muse, go to hack–your–muse.teachable.com/p/meet-your-muse. Thanks, see you next week!
ABOUT BETH BARANY
Beth Barany is an award-winning novelist, master neurolinguistic programming practitioner, and certified creativity coach for writers.
She specializes in helping writers experience clarity, so they can write, revise, and proudly publish their novels to the delight of their readers. Her courses are packed with useful hands-on information that you can implement right away.
Her latest book for authors, co-written with her husband, also a novelist and teacher, is Plan Your Novel Like A Pro: And Have Fun Doing It! and comes with a downloadable workbook and other goodies.
When she’s not helping writers, Beth writes magical tales of romance, mystery, and adventure that empower women and girls to be the heroes of their own lives.
Beth’s blog: WritersFunZone.com/blog
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