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Why 2012 Was a Year Worth Celebrating: Top Posts & Other Highlights
Why We Need to Rediscover Wonder
Three Lessons on Creativity & Making Better Art (Plus a Book Giveaway!)
The Mayans Were Right About the End of the World
No Words (A Response to the Connecticut School Shooting)
Can Stories Really Change the World?
5 Lessons from the Early Days of Blogging
Do You Want to Create? Then Prepare for Pain
Let's Get Wrecked in Guatemala Together (Invitation to a Vision Trip)
10 Steps I Take to Begin Every Weekend
What Putting a Baby to Sleep Taught Me About Success
How to Crowd-fund Your Next Book: Free Video Training
The Online Writer's Guide to Cyber Monday
The Reason Your Marketing Is Utterly Failing
How to Tell Your Story without Boring Your Audience to Tears
When Fear Is Your Friend (and When It's Not)
The Artist Manifesto: Will You Create?
The Best Way to Get a Story to Spread: Give It Away
Yes, We DO Judge a Book By Its Cover
Five Ways to Build a Thriving Community
What E.T. Taught Me About My Life
An Insider's Secrets to Getting Published (Plus a Kindle Publishing Guide)
How to Become a Professional at Your Craft
Why Writers Write (Hint: It's Not for the Money)
5 Facts About Publishing That Could Change Your Writing Career
Learn How to Be a Writer with This Four-Part Audio Series
3 Steps to Creating a Beautiful Book Site for Less than $100
Every Writer Is a Mentor (Or Can Be)
Why You Need to Finally Face the Fear of Failure
What It Really Takes to Get Published: An Interview with Michael Hyatt
Six Reasons to Wreck Your Life for Good
How to Find the Fullness of Life
How to Be What You Do: Beyond the To Do List Interview
Interview with Jon Acuff: How to Be a Quitter
The Power of Being Present in an Age of Urgency
Does It Really Not Hurt to Ask?
Unsolicited Advice to My Teenage Self
The Best Writer I Never Knew (An Ode to My Grandfather)
What Everybody Ought to Know About Writing
The Trophy: An Essay About My Dad & Fatherhood
3 Truths About Tribes & Why We Need Them
Fail Faster (So You Can Become a Better Writer)
Why You Need a Small Army & How to Build One
How to Get People Excited About Anything You Write
How New Parenthood Is Slowly Making Me Crazy
The Writing Class You Never Had
My Morning Routine in 10 Simple Steps
The Unexpected Path to Finding Your Dream
My Personal Campaign to Defeat Fifty Shades of Grey
Can I Come Over to Your Place? (Introducing My Online Book Tour)
I'll Pay You $158 to Get Wrecked
A Call to Live the Life You're Afraid of (Wrecked Excerpt)
When It Feels Like Everything is Falling Apart
Warning: Writing Like This Will Make Your Readers Cry
How to Get Your Spouse to Support Your Dream
What Freddy Krueger Knows About Blogging That You Don't
Challenge: Share a Story You Don't Want to Tell
Overnight Success Ain't All It's Cracked Up to Be
Art Helps Us Deal with Suffering
Get More Followers By Breaking the Rules
How Do You Live Life Fully Alive?
Why Your Idea Isn't Spreading (The Salesman's Problem)
Why I'm Bribing You to Buy My New Book
How to Get Those Creative Juices Flowing
Join My Book Launch Team and Get Six Unique Opportunities
When We Stop Believing the Stories We Tell
One Paradigm-shifting Idea That Will Change the Way You Communicate
8 Tips for Waking Up Early & Conquering the Alarm Clock
The Essential Guide to (Not) Responding to Critics
The Tragic Mistake Most Bloggers Make
Great Writers Serve Their Readers
Why I Did the Unthinkable and Gave My eBook Away for Free
Until You Publish Your Work, You're Not in the Game
It's Time to Declutter Your Writing
Great Writers Share Others' Work
A Letter from a New Dad to His Son
The Boring Secret to Being Everywhere
Great Writers Connect with Other Writers
The Difference Between Starting & Building
Great Artists (and Writers) Steal
How Great Writers Prepare for Big Projects
My Son (Still Feels Weird to Say That)
A Great Writer Takes Initiative
Great Writers Believe in Themselves (So Should You)
The Declaration Every Great Writer Makes
Join Me for a 15-Day Writing Challenge
Start Treating Your Personal Heroes Like Peers
Stop Looking for Excuses to Not Be Awesome
6 Habits to Help You Write When You Don't Have the Time
What It Really Takes to Build a Platform in Today's Noisy World
Five Words That Will Change Your Life
Announcing the You Are a Writer Contest Winner!
The Difference Between Art and Entertainment
You Are a Writer Contest Update
The Benefits of Building a Writing Platform
The Best Way to Network: Serving People
Why First Impressions Aren't Nearly as Important as We Think
Whatever You Do, Don't Be a Celebrity
How to Launch a Startup for $100
Why Your Ego Is Destroying Your Writing
25 Blogging Tips for Newbies and Veterans
When You're Scared to Death, Do Something Anyway
Lessons from the Life of Author William Gay
You Are a Writer: So Start Acting Like One (Now Available in Paperback!)
The Shocking Truth About Launching a Writing Career
Are People Meaner Online than in Real Life?
How to Find Your Life's Treasure
One Sure Sign You're a Professional
The Job of an Artist (& How I Use Pinterest)
How to Get a Free Copy of My Upcoming eBook
How the Law of Diminishing Returns Works with Communication
The Secret to Your Next Creative Breakthrough
The Hardest Part of Blogging is Getting Started
I'm Giving Away 12 Blogging Lessons for Free
Patience Is a Writer's Most Important Virtue
Writing Lessons from the Newsroom
The Most Important Publishing Platform
How to Be a Leader in an Age of Information Overload
So You've Built a Platform — Now What?
The Best Way to Begin a Writing Career
You Must Engage Your Creative Side
5 Reasons I Love My Kindle Touch
Why The Hunger Games Is the Future of Writing
How to Be Funny When You're Not
One Piece of Indispensable Writing Advice
The Secret to Getting Noticed: Write Something Dangerous
Struggle Is a Sure Sign You're Creating Art
We Cannot Grow Numb to the World's Pain
The Minimalist Secret to Productive Writing
Stuck in a Creative Funk? Try These 12 Tricks
What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do
The Secret to Influence Is This
Different Styles of Writing & Which Is Right for You
My Biggest Writing Struggle (What's Yours?)
The Best Way to Pursue Your Life's Work
The Happiness Project: Interview with Best-Selling Author Gretchen Rubin
A Writer's Biggest Barrier to Success
3 Lies to Face Before You Find Your Passion
Why Reading Nonfiction Won't Cut It for Your Creativity
The Incredible Impact of Words
The Productivity Secret of Professional Writers
The Problem with Online Friendship
What an Angry Flight Attendant Taught Me about Doing Meaningful Work
Why Writers Need to Read if They Want to Be Good
Sign Up for My Free Blogging Course
4 Lessons I Learned from Being Rejected by a Publisher
Don't Sell Books, Spread Ideas
The Best Way to Celebrate Valentine's Day
Good Idea. Now What? — An Interview with Charles Lee
Afraid to Publish Your Work? Here's the Solution...
How to Stop Spamming & Actually Get People to Listen to You
What Writers Can Learn from Chefs about Cooking Up Good Design
Being a Jack of All Trades Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be
The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing a Book that Doesn't Suck
The Key to Distraction-Free Writing
If You Want to Write to a Larger Audience, Be More Specific
Quit Screwing Around — It's Time to Write for Real
The Most Obvious (But Overlooked) Secret to Getting Published in a Magazine
Are You Satisfied? (That May Not Be Enough)
On Joe Paterno, Life, Art, & Legacy
Help Me Pick Out My New Book Cover
Finding Truth in Fiction: The Power of Creative Storytelling
Want to Be a Better Writer? Get a Peer Editor
The Many Weird & Wonderful Surprises of Marriage
How to Improve Your Writing In One Counter-Intuitive Way
You Don't Need a Plan to Change Your Life
The Difference Between Dreaming and Starting
The Most Neglected Writing Tip