Reading time: 32 seconds If you’re a writer who hasn’t cracked your code, you’re not alone. It’s true for most writers. You need to identify your own unique combination of conditions, rituals, and triggers that opens the writing faucet and lets the words flow. Mine? Obvi, it starts with coffee, tea, and water at my desk... Two Pomodoros (25 min each, based on The Pomodoro Technique) Music playing (always) Read first, write second 4:30-8:00 AM (before the world wakes up) When I honor my code?...

Reading time: 26 seconds Writing is solo sport, kinda like marathon running. You sit. You type. You stare at the screen. Alone. I think that's one reason we feel like we're "blocked," the isolation doesn't lend itself to circulation (especially not of words). When I first started writing, I did not fancy myself a writer and didn't know there were other writes--just like me--trying to figure it all out. Man, was I excited to find them! (You know who you are!) I had a picture of what real...

Reading time: 26 seconds Want to know a secret? When I sit down to write, I'm not always "Honorée, tired human, multiple business owner, and dog servant, who didn't sleep great and has 47 things on her to-do list." Sometimes, I'm H-Money—my fierce, focused, word-slinging alter ego who doesn't have time for excuses. I know, it sounds ridiculous. But it works, and here's why: When you create an alter ego, you're essentially becoming your future self in that moment. You don't have to wait until...