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Kait Nolan on Dealing with Burnout and Writing During Stressful Times (Re-air)

50 min • 16 augusti 2022

Episode 132 / This week Jami and Sara are re-airing an early episode with Kait Nolan, who talks about getting through burnout and writing during stressful times--whether that stress is coming from your own personal situation or world events.

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Show notes:

  • Tips for marketing a series--grouping books and banking books for a rapid release
  • How expectations about productivity and major upsets in her personal life lead to burnout
  • Why burnout is becoming more common in the writing community 
  • How Kait sets goals to write a certain number of days per month instead of a certain number of words per day
  • Building in some grace into our schedules and adjusting our expectation
  • The tyranny of the “shoulds”
  • Recommendations for writing during trying times
  • How a “just for fun” project can help you when the world is crazy
  • What Kait has discovered isn’t worth her time and effort
  • How Kait went against the prevailing wisdom and didn’t use paid ads. Instead she built a career with paid newsletters and free forms of promos
  • Changes Kait has seen in her genres and h

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