The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. Almost) eleven years ago, in Sept 2011, I left my day job to become a full-time author-entrepreneur. As I discuss in How to Write a Novel , I am a discovery writer. More in my future of creativity articles and resources.].

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

How can we use AI tools in our creative and business processes while still keeping our humanity at the core of our books? She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. What is the AI-Assisted Artisan Author? She has sold almost a million books across 169 countries and 5 languages.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After many years of people saying, “AI can never be creative, AI could never write fiction (i.e. How can we use the tools to achieve our creative purpose in an ethical manner, and understand that we need to curate, edit, and take responsibility for any usage? Do you know how many times Amazon has been ‘flooded’ with spam books?

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 13, 2023

How can you let your creative dark horse run? When I became a writer, these two horses drove me once more. How could you let your dark horse run creatively? But take heart, Creative. What is the Shadow — and why explore your Shadow side? I’m grateful to have her! Questions: What are the key aspects of your white horse?

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The Creative Penn

JULY 14, 2024

Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn KimBoo York is the author of romance, fantasy, and nonfiction, as well as a productivity coach, and a podcaster at The Author Alchemist and Around the Writer's Table. So I did eventually get published by a small indie publisher in 2011. So welcome, KimBoo. Joanna: I love this.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 21, 2024

How can we use AI tools to enhance and improve our creative process? How can we double down on being human by writing what we are passionate about, while still using generative AI to help fulfil our creative vision? So I basically worked in software development and network management until 2011. Then I got into writing.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. She's also the founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors, a professional speaker and creative coach. You mentioned it before, that your creative non-fiction books, you put years into these.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I can’t think of any superpower that would be more useful for content marketers than to have a sneak preview of all the important developments, trends, technologies, and key disruptors that will impact our strategic and creative decisions over the next 12 months. It will reinforce quality and creativity in content more than ever.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Joanne: So I've always written and made up stories, like most writers, really. Then I began publishing chapters of it on a blog back in, I think, about 2011. Early in 2012, after I got my first Kindle and read about self-publishing in the writers magazines that I used to buy, I decided to take the plunge.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

Joseph: Okay, well, you know how superheroes have origin stories, I have a very strange writer origin story. I had finished reading something, a thriller by a fairly popular thriller writer at the time, and absolutely hated it. But I know you as an indie writer. I wrote my first novel in college to win a case of beer.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 16, 2024

What are some of the common fears that writers face? In the intro, How to avoid indie author scams [ ALLi ; Writer Beware ]; Financial strategies and mindset [ Self Publishing Advice ]; Apple Intelligence at WWDC [ The Verge ; Marketing against the Grain]; “Not a chef, but an emotion creator.”

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 17, 2024

Granted, some of those “Medium” searches could be for the TV show of the same name that starred Patricia Arquette from 2005 through 2011. Writers who stepped away for a season, but are making a comeback. Yesterday, you were just you — a talented, attractive writer living in obscurity. Nonetheless, its growth is impressive.

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Fat Joe

JULY 21, 2023

You can scale your content creation without leaving your in-house writer like a caffeinated squirrel, frantically typing away in a desperate attempt to beat looming deadlines. Here’s why: Expand Production Capacity Back in 2011, the average blog post was around 300-500 words. That’s where content outsourcing comes in.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

By using sensory words to evoke the sense of sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell; smart and attractive writers just like you are able to make their words burst to life in their reader’s mind. In a 2011 study published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , experts found that our brains process “tangible” (i.e.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Today, we're talking about her first non-fiction book for authors, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well. Today, we're talking about her first non-fiction book for authors, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In the intro, the author income survey [ALLi ]; publishing clauses to avoid [ Writer Unboxed ; Writer Beware ]; copyright registration for AI-assisted comic Zarya of the Dawn [ Process Mechanics ]; tips for writing with AI [ Self Publishing Show ]; my Sudowrite tutorial. And diving into social media during that time, it was Myspace.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 11, 2011

As a writer, you will get the mean reds. How do you take your interests, your personal stories, and use them as creative fuel? These writers produce fantastic content, but it’s the small personal touches that serve as bait to hook readers in. In order for you to succeed as a writer, YOU need to have a vision.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

In 2011, it raised over $6 million to study the landscape of how to create “human-free stories” (such an oxymoron to say). Narrative Science “rents” Quill mostly to financial clients for whom it can create 10- to 15-page financial reports in a matter of moments (what would take a writer possibly weeks to put together).

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

How can we shift our mindset to thinking about a long-term creative career? To invest in something that is outside the norm of what we are “supposed to be doing” I think is really valuable, both for keeping us engaged and creative, and also pushing the envelope on something that might be the next big thing.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

How can you reframe the direct author business model to take advantage of creative possibilities for different kinds of products and long-term marketing? So I started my first creative business in 2004. Do you think you're much more of a visual person than a lot of the text-based writers? So welcome to the show, Russell.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 7, 2024

The discussion covers Penn’s background in theology, influences from authors like Clive Cussler and Dan Brown, and her journey from a corporate job to becoming a full-time writer. She also writes nonfiction for authors as Joanna Penn and is the host of The Creative Penn Podcast. So Joanna, it's so great to have you on.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It's interesting because you're a discovery writer, I'm a discovery writer, and I just felt the same as you. Look at The Creative Penn. We're writers. Joanna: So you're a more mature writer, which I hope you don't mind me saying, but you also mentioned before about maybe wanting to work less. What do you think?

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Thompson was the creator of Gonzo Journalism – or as he called himself, “the doctor of journalism” – and the writer of the infamous books Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga , and The Rum Diary. Verbs are the most important words writers will ever use.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 9, 2023

And I think as I've grown up and become a writer, it's just the adult version of talking to yourself in lots of ways. Because look, to be honest, this is the creative process, right? But that wasn't till about 2011 it really started to accelerate this interest in her. I was always talking to myself as a child.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2018

Clients can view and interact with shared dashboards, collaboration tabs, and reports, while staff — e.g., writers or social media managers — can alternate between open and closed conversations. Since its 2011 launch, Scoop.it! Another great feature of Pinterest is that it can boost creativity when it comes to your content ideas.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 13, 2012

Writer’s block. Destroy them, and you’ve freed yourself from the psychological traps of writer’s block forever. Your writing becomes effortless, ideas flow from a fountain of creativity and words come easily, on demand. How do you cure writer’s block? The minds of writers are rife with fear.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2012

For many writers, getting stuck in a phase of writer’s block can seem like the worse experience imaginable. Here I am, a supposed writer, and I can’t come up with anything to write. How can I even call myself a writer if I am struggling like this? It’s a very necessary part of the trade, those moments of doubt.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2012

So what’s the writer who has a message to share with the world to do? Not because I wanted to be a business writer, but because I wanted to be heard. In a world where there are too many messages, too many writers, too many people demanding our time, we have all learned to filter out what’s non-essential.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

When I chat with marketers about their teams, the biggest cry I hear is for someone to create the content: often writers, but also videographers, podcasters, etc. Of course, not all writers (or any type of content creators) are created equal. Like writers, designers often excel in different areas. Content creation.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 5, 2012

True confession now: On my first draft, I don’t even try to be a good writer. So if you’re an AW (amateur writer, i.e., you don’t write for a living), you should be encouraged, because you can take the pressure off yourself when you sit down to write. Many writers hit the keyboard for set periods of time. ” Write for time.

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Men With Pens

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Tons of professional writers offer consultations (in person, online, or by phone), e-courses, lectures, tutoring, coaching, conference presentations, and workshops in places as diverse as their own living rooms and large auditoriums. “Teaching” comes in any package you’re creative enough to invent. Establish Expertise.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

He’s also an unlikely candidate for a writer’s hero. If you’re trying to forge a niche for yourself as a writer, then you could definitely learn a few lessons from this scurvy pirate. As a writer, don’t settle for being merely good. Listen, Ye Landlubbers! Be THE Best. The man put lit matches in his hair.

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Men With Pens

MAY 31, 2011

Too often, we writers fob reviews off as easy content. After all, someone else has done the creative work – it’s simply our job to judge it. And being loud, opinionated writers, we’re quite fond of judging. A review tests the writer’s skill at persuasion and description. Discuss the wider picture.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

Ryan Holiday is a writer and media strategist. Here are a few of my favourites: How Creatives Should Negotiate via Tim Ferris. He is a prolific writer and content curator and shares so many useful resources via his Twitter account. The site has since become one of the premiere destinations on the web for writers.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2011

As writers, we rely on our unique ability to convey the visual world in words. I’m Steff, a legally blind writer and blogger. As a writer, you can’t be half-assed, you can’t be wishy-washy. As writers, we’re eternally curious. You think you’re writing project is hard? Welcome to my world.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 18, 2011

You know that writers need to read to improve their writing skills. It means finding out exactly what other writers do. If you want to improve your skills as a writer, you need to be able to figure out why you liked this or that – and what made it work. So let me show you how to be a better writer, starting with structure.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

You might love the idea of writing an in-depth essay that analyzes two obscure writers, but if your readers want quick and easy tips they can apply to their own lives, they’re going to tune out. This gets your creativity flowing, and it lets you capture what’s on your mind. How can you tell the difference? Planning is essential.

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