Your Daily Writing Habit

Your Daily Writing Habit

In Your Daily Writing Habit Christine "Ink" Whitmarsh shares her expert writing secrets so YOU can write (and finish!) a book that changes lives! Christine's mission is to inspire and help as many people as possible to share their stories and life lessons in book form, thereby transforming the lives of others. Christine, a celebrity ghostwriter, bestselling author, and book coach, is the owner of The Ink Agency, a professional book services agency serving clients worldwide since 2003 (formerly Christine Ink - Writing With Impact). The Ink Agency helps authors write, publish and promote extraordinary books that drive powerful brands. Over the course of her 18 years as a professional writer, Christine, a "creative scientist" by nature, has mastered the process of developing, writing and COMPLETING top quality books.

Episodes

June 1, 2023 3 mins

Here’s today’s quote: “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again there is no use in reading it at all.” -Oscar Wilde

Labels without a story attached are magnets for misunderstanding. Here's what I mean...

 

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Here today on Your Daily Writing Habit to talk about The Wall of Awful and how it impacts authors with ADHD is an internationally recognized expert on the subject, Brendan Mahan.

 

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Brendan Mahan, M.Ed., MS., is the host of the ADHD Essentials Podcast, an internationally recognized expert on ADHD/Executive Function, anxiety, and neurodiverse parenting.  He is a highl...

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Today’s quote and today’s episode are on in the same. Here is a short piece from a recent Seth Godin daily email newsletter...

 

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May 29, 2023 4 mins

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” -Fernando Pessoa

This week’s mindset Monday tip!

 

Speaking of... have you seen the YDWH habits cartoon?

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May 28, 2023 5 mins

This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: - Writing About Your Life: A Journey Into the Past by William Zinsser.

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 “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

This weekend's introspective writing prompt!

 

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“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” ― Mary Holloway

5 tips to stay sane (and productive) while pitching your book to agents and publishers.

 

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“When the sun is shining

Our job as professionals is to show up and do the work. Not simply respond to incoming or do the chores, but to create and innovate.

And yet, some days feel more conducive than others. There are moments when it simply flows.

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“I ask you though, in listening to what I say, to remember that all advice can only be a product of the man who gives it. What is truth to one may be disaster to another. I do not see life through your eyes, nor you through mine. If I were to attempt to give you specific advice, it would be too much like the blind leading the blind.”

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“Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.” -Margot Robbie

 

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“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

-Lemony Snicket

 

Be sure and share today's episode with the new college grad in your life!

 

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Gr...

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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”

-B. F. Skinner

 

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May 19, 2023 4 mins

“You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain. ”― Jefferson Smith

 

What about you? What questions do you have for me about writing and finishing writing an awesome book? Please send them to me here:

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"We don't make mistakes -- we just have happy accidents." -Bob Ross

 

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“American intellectuals, when they appear in European accounts, are assumed to be mere representatives of some Western archetype of the quote unquote noble savage or sock puppets, used as plausible alibis to an author, who might otherwise get into trouble for presenting subversive ideas (deism, for example, or rational ma...

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“Versatility is an extra string to a player's bow.” -Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

 

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“Discontent is the nagging of the imagination. Discontent is evidence that your imagination has not given up on you. It is still pressing, swelling, trying to get your attention by whispering: "Not this.” ― Glennon Doyle

This week's Mindset Monday question!

 

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