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Activated Authors is an online author community centered around principles of healthy productivity, community, and shared knowledge. Founded by international bestselling author, award-winning podcaster, and author coach, Daniel Willcocks, the group aims to help authors and creatives of all levels achieve their creative goals and thrive as part of a healthy, positive community.
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Friday Jan 31, 2020
Friday Jan 31, 2020
Katie Forrest is a busy wife and special needs parent, doing her best to juggle this with her work. She runs a boutique law firm, writes cosy mystery under a pen name and is obsessed with cacti. She loves solo-travelling, is a complete time management geek, and is the author of the new non-fiction book, Time Management for Writers
In this episode we go deep into:
- Katie’s new book, Time Management for Writers
- Importance of building habits
- Why sleep sucks
- How to overcome the burden of ‘doing everything’ and narrow your life down to the key things
- Setting boundaries with your loved ones to prioritise your writing
- Navigating difficult conversations with your partner
- Managing fiction and non-fiction projects around work
- Katie’s novel planning process
- Benefits of saying ‘yes’ to things
- How Katie prepares (or doesn’t) for speaking engagements
- Embracing entrepreneurship
- How Katie hones her craft before writing her books
- Managing a busy life and maximizing outputs.
Katie answers questions from Patrons:
- Harley Christensen: On time management... For those of us working from home and trying to make the most of our creative time, can you share some tips for setting and especially, reinforcing boundaries with our significant others who work outside the home in non-creative professions?
- Harley Christensen: Tell us more about this cacti obsession. As a transplant from the Pacific Northwest (U.S.) who currently lives in Arizona among the Saguaro, Pricky Pear, and has cactus flowers growing in her backyard, I am certainly curious/interested.
Find out more about Katie:
Time Management for Writers by Katie Forrest (FB Group)
Links from the show:
Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
Special thanks to:
Intro vocals: Persephone Rose
Show theme: Karl Hughes
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Thank you to my patrons:
David Hines
Harley Christensen
Jon Cronshaw
Jenn Mitchell
Innes Richens
Ian J Middleton
PT Hylton
Michael Anderle
Jerry Evanoff
Mark McClure
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