Start Here: My Story Index & Archive
The best and most recent of what I’ve written on Medium.
My Top 5 Most Popular Articles of All Time:
12 Ambient Noise Generators for Creative Work
How Music Affects Your Brain (Plus 11 Artists To Listen To At Work)
The Importance Of Slowing Down
Content Archive (In Order of Oldest to Newest):
10 Lofi Music Playlists For Productivity And Motivation
Be Kind To Yourself: 15 Signs And Habits To Use Every Day
How I Get Things Done When I’m Depressed (From a Person With Clinical Depression)
You Have My Permission To Stop Trying To Be Your Best Self
4 Easy Lifestyle Changes That Added More Writing Hours to My Day
How Being Lazy Made Me Better At My Job
Why You Should Set Deadlines For Your Creative Writing (+4 Kinds to Set)
A Conversation With Your Ideal Reader: An Easy Way to Get High-Quality Writing Ideas
5 Alternatives For Writers Who Hate Writing Outlines
The Life You Want is Inside You
How Can You Automatically Improve Your Writing? Use These 3 Tools
How to Fall in Love With Writing Again
Why We’re Drawn to Round Profile Pictures (And How to Make One on Medium)
Every Job Search Resource I Could Find ( And One I Made)
How I Easily Published 4,000 Words in One Week
Answering the 15 Questions You’re Afraid to Ask Your Artsy Friend
I’m Deleting My 46,500-Word Novel And I’ve Never Felt More Free
The Case for Not Planning Your Content: 5 Improvements I Saw Immediately
Do You Really Need a Website? What I Learned From 4 Failed Blogs
This 10-Second Writing Hack Will Improve Your Transitions
7 Signs of Personal Growth That Are More Positive Than They Feel
The Myth of Prolific Alcoholic Writers
Everyone, But Especially Women, Should Get Better at This Kind of Writing
Can We Talk About the Problem with Writing Workshops in 2022?
Patience is a Skill Every Writer Needs
4 Lessons ‘Maid’ Taught Me About Plot and Character Development
How to Stand Out in a Sea of Writers
8 Digital Magazine Subscription Services That’ll Save You Money in 2021
The Hard Truth About The Excuses We Tell Ourselves
3 Hidden Medium Features Every Writer Should Know
It’s Completely Acceptable to Set Boundaries For Your Creative Work
How I Get on Big Publications While Writing Every Day
It’s Not Fair! How to be Happy for Other Writers Instead of Jealous
How I Accomplish in 20 Hours What Used to Take 40
9 Things to Be Thankful For No Matter What’s Going On
How I Get Through All My Emails, Every Single Day
You Don’t Need to Get Lucky, You Need to Get Serious
How to Come Up With Ideas on a No-Idea Day
Your Idea Isn’t New But You Can Make It Good
Read Time and Word Count: A Quick Reference
It Took Me 20 Years to Realize I Was Having Panic Attacks
How I Get Publications to Add Me as a Writer
This Writing Style is Completely Underrated
The Worst Thing That Can Happen to a Writer Happened to Me
The Completely Unremarkable Way I Earned 300 Followers in a Month and Hit The 1K Mark
I’m Not Rich, But I’m Successful
The UX of This App is 10X Better Than Evernote
I Wish I Never Heard This Piece of Goal-Setting Advice
The Schedule Hack I Use to Make Time For All My Projects
My Formula for Generating 80 Topic Ideas Every Week
The Simple Calendar That Helps Me Publish Content Every Day
How I Get Motivated to Write Every Day
I Published Every Day for Nearly 50 Days — Why I’m Quitting Now
Side Hustle Story: I Made Over $500 My First Month as a Dog Walker
You Won’t Be a Good Writer in Your 20s
I Was Given The Gift of Depression
The Powerful Creative Process That Helps Me Write Short Fiction Consistently
Further Evidence That Daily Publishing Doesn’t Pay Off
7 Lessons From a Really Hard Week
Why There’s No Such Thing as a Writer Anymore