by Micah Schwader | Feb 14, 2023 | Blog
On the first day of my first writing retreat, I faced several writers who had repeatedly tried to write a successful manuscript. They had come to see if I could help them where others had failed. My instruction was to throw out the old-school linear way of writing an...
by Micah Schwader | Feb 10, 2022 | Blog
While finding time to write came to be like having unplanned sex, the act of writing is more like making love. You cannot fake it. You must feel it. When I was writing the chapter “A Tale of Abundance” from the anthology book A Guide to Getting It:...
by Micah Schwader | Feb 10, 2022 | Blog
When I first started writing coaching, I had a client tell me that she treated her writing as if it was unplanned sex! When she needed to, she would sneak it in whenever she could. Every spare moment on weekends, after school, or instead of lunch, she would grab her...
by Micah Schwader | Aug 30, 2021 | Blog
One of my favorite authors is historical fiction writer Sharon Kay Penman (what a great name for a writer!). The historical period she writes about is the Middle Ages, and she creates incredible romantic stories using actual people and events. A truly remarkable...
by Micah Schwader | Aug 16, 2021 | Blog
If I were to ask you why you haven’t written a book, I’m guessing the most common answer would be that there doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day. There are people with children, businesses, extended families, and any other life picture you can imagine. Yet, they...
by Micah Schwader | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog
During a healing session years ago, the diagnosis I received was that I must begin to make all of my choices from openness and joy instead of fear. When I asked how to know when I was choosing from fear, the answer was, “It’s simple. When there is a struggle, there is...
by Micah Schwader | Jul 19, 2021 | Blog
Well-known furniture designer Charles Eames once said that he devoted only about one percent of his energy to conceiving a design; he spent the remaining ninety-nine percent holding onto the vision as the project developed. For a writer, holding on to the vision is...
by Micah Schwader | Jul 6, 2021 | Blog
During my first writing retreat, I worked with a new author who had signed up to be in a collaborative anthology book series that I created, edited, and published (for more information about writing in my latest anthology series, go to Awaken Your Creative Genius)....
by Micah Schwader | Jun 16, 2021 | Blog
A few years ago, I worked with a client who was writing about leadership from the heart versus the head. Unfortunately, his first draft was uninspired, dry, and boring. So on our coaching call, I asked, “Ed, what are you writing about?” He replied, “Leadership from...
by Micah Schwader | May 25, 2021 | Blog, Writing Coach
A few years ago, I found several journals I had lost track of and decided to read through some of them. I thought it would be an excellent way to see where I was when I wrote the entries and how far I had traveled in the intervening years. I was amazed by how much I...
