Creative Content Guy
Read on or watch the video! Writing’s hard, but your message is just as valuable and valid as anybody else’s. That blank page is the start of a journey. And if you’re writing a novel, or even a short story or script, that journey can be a long one. So we need to know where … Continue reading How to Beat the Blank Page!
You, as a writer, need certain tools. I’m going to share several golden nuggets with you that I’ve gleaned over the course of my career as a professional writer and editor. We’ll cover physical and emotional things, some practical techniques, and there’s at least one absolutely, must-have, non-negotiable essential. 1. Resilience So, you know that … Continue reading 7 Writing Tips You Must Know!
Read on, or watch the video! We all want to achieve things. Success in a career. A relationship. A nice car or an apartment, something like that. But often we’re afraid to set those kind of goals because we’re scared of failure. If we don’t have a goal, we can’t fail to reach it. But … Continue reading Achieve Your Goals!
Check out my latest video! Check out my YouTube Community.Visit my shop for products I use and recommend.Get my newsletter. I’m a published novelist, writer, editor and Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow with 30 years’ experience across business, fiction, other non-fiction, scriptwriting and education. If you’d like me to produce a video like this for … Continue reading How I use JOURNALING as a powerful PRODUCTIVITY Tool!
Writer, beware! Writing morning pages is very popular. Many people get a lot from it, me included. There are lots of videos and articles about morning pages, and they are overwhelmingly positive. But there is something you need to be aware of when writing morning pages to help maintain good mental health. The advice when … Continue reading The DANGERS of Morning Pages!
In the last article I explained how my desire for a plain text workflow that’s as simple and lean and efficient as plain text itself was making things complicated. Or at least, my overthinking was making things complicated. I thought I’d found a solution. Then the perfect plain text productivity app went and snook up … Continue reading My Plain Text Pantomime!
HELP! My graceful, plain text ballet is an elephant in a tutu I like simple, robust tools. That’s probably why I’m a plain text geek. I love the light, lean efficient nature of plain text. Maybe I’m a bit old school. Perhaps it’s because I’m a child of the 1970s and still firmly believe that … Continue reading Obsidian, iA Writer, Drafts, Ulysses… which? How?
I edit travel guides for a client. This is how I use Scrivener to ease each book through the process of working with authors to get a book to print! Read the full article on Medium.
Martin Sketchley 