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Why Do We Need So Much External Motivation?
How chasing reminders and hacks might keep us from the soul-level work of writing
 • Chelsea Bieker
Reimagining the Book Event
A simple format shift that brought ease, depth, and joy to the room!
 • Chelsea Bieker
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How to Facilitate an Author Event
So you've been asked to be "in conversation" with a writer about their book...
 • Chelsea Bieker
My Writer's Toolkit: Products that really have changed my life
Sometimes we just need to make the process a little easier.
 • Chelsea Bieker
Mothering Through the Lens of Loss
Writing in the wake of my mother's death, grief group, lessons on pub day...
 • Chelsea Bieker
Wait for Cake: A Conversation with Claudia Dey
Desired scenes, channeling, writing out of control states in the most controlled way.
 • Chelsea Bieker
I am panting
Burnout; energetically pulling back; only so many hours in a day; reading what I want
 • Chelsea Bieker
Seed or Weed? The Question That Changed How I Say Yes
On time, energy, and why some decisions rot your whole garden.
 • Chelsea Bieker
The most important shift I've ever made as a writer
Devotion & Discipline; a HUGE mascara update; oops I messed up my no-buy year but have hot recs to report. A novel that woke me UP.
 • Chelsea Bieker
Make Up Your Life
Make Up Your Life
Support for writers who want to build a sustainable, energetically aligned creative practice in the middle of real life.
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