Get Your Writing Done

Oct 18 2024 32 ep. 38 mins 13

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The Get Your Writing Done podcast is hosted by Trevor Thrall, Ph.D., author of The 12 Week Year for Writers. Every week we dive deep on strategies and tools to help writers be their most productive selves.

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GYWD 32 What To Do When Your Plan Hits the Fan

Oct 18 2024 24 mins

It happens to all of us: you make a beautiful plan, you’re pumped and ready to go. Then life happens, things go sideways, and you suddenly find yourself weeks behind. If you don’t do something drastic, you aren’t going to hit your goals.What the heck do you do now?For most of us, our plans need significant adjustment midstream more often than not. The problem is that most peo

GWYD 31 Writing Like a Human

Jun 01 2024 47 mins

We’re all getting the message every day. Generative AI is changing the world at warp speed. Every week reveals new possibilities for working more efficiently. Nothing will be the same. A robot is going to cook all your hamburgers and fries. No one will have a job within 10 years. And writers will go the way of the dodo.To that I say: raspberry sound. Humans will always have a pla

GYWD 30 The Research Trap

May 18 2024 32 mins

Do any of the following scenarios sound familiar?You know you need to do some research for your book, but you have no idea where to startYou want to write a book about a new topic, or a novel that takes place in a new setting perhaps, but you are so worried that you won’t sound authoritative or convincing enough, so you spend months doing research, never sure whether you’ve don

GYWD 29 What is the Rock in Your Shoe?

Apr 18 2024 37 mins

Is there a rock in your shoe keeping you from writing? I don't just mean a garden variety obstacle, I'm talking about a major productivity or dream killer. Is there something that needs to change for you to reach your goals?In today's episode, we discuss The Rock and the Response. We talk about how the obvious layer of the rock almost hides a more important inner layer of dangerous

GYWD #28 Five Strategies for Finishing What You Start

Dec 19 2023 33 mins

Everywhere I look I see workshops promising to help you get a fast start to 2024. And that’s great! But here’s the thing: how many times have you or someone you know got off to a quick start on a new writing project but never quite finished it? That’s why this episode is all about Starting to Finish. We'll talk about five common reasons people don't finish their writing and f

GYWD #27: Mastering the Art of Slow Progress

Oct 10 2023 36 mins

Do you ever hear yourself saying these sorts of things?- I don’t have enough time to write- I don’t have enough energy to keep going to the end- I am so demoralized at how slow this is going- I’m losing my enthusiasm for this writing project I’ve been at it so longIf you find yourself in one of these situations, you need to become a master of making slow progress. This idea

GYWD 26: Five Strategies for Finding Focus When Life Gets Crazy

Aug 29 2023 36 mins

Did you know that the average person spends just 47 seconds before switching from looking at one screen/window on their computer to looking at another? Or that it takes 25 minutes to regain focus after an interruption? Staying focused in the best of times is a brutal task. Staying focused when life gets crazy is that much harder.In this episode we'll talk about five strategies for

GYWD 25: Showing Up to Write (Why We Don't, How We Can)

Jun 19 2023 42 mins

Have you ever had one of those periods where you just couldn’t write consistently? Maybe your schedule was too chaotic. Maybe you got super busy at work. Or maybe you found yourself looking at the clock and seeing it was time to write but you wound up finding something else to do? Maybe you were going great guns but then went on vacation and when you came back you found that your

GYWD #24: Aligning Your Writer Rhythms with Writing Reality

Mar 12 2023 26 mins

Did you ever have a writing project where everything just clicked? I mean, from the beginning when you had the idea to the finished product, everything just went great, and quickly? And on the other hand, did you ever have a writing project that did nothing but give you trouble, from the day you started it until the day you finished it, or just dropped it? I've had my share of both

GYWD 23: Tools of the Trade with Scrivener for Dummies Author Gwen Hernandez

Jan 26 2022 40 mins

If you write fiction (and even if you don't), my guess is that you use, have used, or are thinking about using Scrivener, one of the most popular writing apps on the planet. If you are thinking about it, or need some help making the most of Scrivener, this week's guest is the person to ask for help. Gwen Hernandez is an engineer turned author. She writes the popular Men of Steele s