Do you know what your story is really about?
What’s your story about? It seems pretty fundamental to writing. And yet… When I ask most people “What’s your story about?” they run through what happens, who people are and the twists in the story. They never tell me what’s the story about. That’s because I mean...
24 writing tech tools that will skyrocket your career
These are the writing tech tools I use every day to write, meet with clients, edit articles, work with editors and generally how I’m able to live in Argentina while writing and running an education business across the world. These writing tech tools are often rather...
Why you need to redefine these 5 useless words right now
You cannot write if you live your life by someone else’s definition of a word. When your words are not your own, you can’t tell your own story. It’s time to redefine these five words and change the way you see your work. Aggressive This is when...
3 Ways You Stop Yourself from Writing (& how to stop making excuses)
We writers are incredibly creative. Over the last two decades working with writers, I’ve heard just about every excuse for NOT writing you can imagine. They make sense at the time, but the problem with excuses is time passes and you don’t write. You need to stop...
Writing the first word (and why it’s so hard)
This post started as a blank page. I wrote the title first. When I came back to look at what I’d written, I forgot I hadn’t even written the first word beyond the title. Opened the file. There sat a blank page. Again. Ugh. Why is it so hard to write the first word?...About Leigh
I'm a writer and mentor currently living in Argentina. Want to know how I created my ideal writing life?
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