Get Your Writing Done

Trevor Thrall
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Get Your Writing Done

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.

  1. OCT 18

    GYWD 32 What To Do When Your Plan Hits the Fan

    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 people don’t feel comfortable with what to do at that point. Do I give up? Do I pull some all nighters to make up ground?&...

    24 min

  2. JUN 1

    GWYD 31 Writing Like a Human

    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 place in the loop.In this episode I:Explain my human centric theory of AIDiscuss the limits of AI and why writers shou...

    47 min

  3. MAY 18

    GYWD 30 The Research Trap

    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 done enoughYou’ve just created a great plan, and doing research is in the plan, but when you start doing the resea...

    33 min

  4. APR 18

    GYWD 29 What is the Rock in Your Shoe?

    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 emotion. We consider how difficult it can be to recognize the real causes behind our rocks.Then we talk abo...

    38 min
  5. GYWD #28 Five Strategies for Finishing What You Start

    12/20/2023

    GYWD #28 Five Strategies for Finishing What You Start

    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 five concrete steps you can take to avoid them.For more information and tools for the productive writer, visit g...

    34 min
  6. GYWD #27: Mastering the Art of Slow Progress

    10/11/2023

    GYWD #27: Mastering the Art of Slow Progress

    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 of slow progress gets very little discussion these days, but I think it deserves a lot more. In today’s episode ...

    37 min
  7. GYWD 26: Five Strategies for Finding Focus When Life Gets Crazy

    08/30/2023

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

    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 finding focus that all happen before you sit down to write.Ezra Klein, "Beyond the 'Matrix' Theory of the...

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

    06/20/2023

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

    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 momentum was gone and you never got back on track? Or maybe you made plans to get to work early every morn...

    42 min
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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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  • Creator
    Trevor Thrall
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    32
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Get Your Writing Done
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    Get Your Writing Done

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