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3 Ways to Beat Writer’s Block When You Have a Deadline and Zero Ideas
No ideas, no motivation, deadline looming — here are 3 concrete strategies for getting words on the page when your writer’s block is at its worst: the dartboard method, writing sprints, and freewriting.
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Catherine Forrest
Oct 236 min read


How to Set Writing Goals You Can Actually Measure (and Know When You've Hit Them)
"Write more" is not a goal. Here's how to set meaningful, measurable writing goals across quality, quantity, productivity, and budget—and how to tell the difference between what you control and what you don't.
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Catherine Forrest
Oct 28 min read


5 Editing Tools That Make My Editorial Practice Actually Work (And Where to Get Them)
These are the editing tools I use every day in my own practice — a working editor's honest recommendations, from the desk I work at to the gear that keeps me going.
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Catherine Forrest
Sep 235 min read


How to Write Every Day Even When You Can’t
Writing is a skill built through study and practice — not inspiration. Here's how to gamify your writing habit, set achievable goals, and keep yourself writing even when you'd rather do anything else.
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Catherine Forrest
Aug 148 min read


Writing Productivity Helpers
Four tools to organize your writing projects and stay productive: Notion for project tracking, Pacemaker for writing schedules, 750 Words for daily habit-building, and Focuswriter for distraction-free writing sessions.
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Catherine Forrest
Aug 128 min read


The Sunk-Cost Fallacy for Writers
The time you spent on the manuscript that isn't working is already gone whether you quit or not. The only question is what you spend next.
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Catherine Forrest
Aug 79 min read


How to Start a Writing Group
Everything you need to start a writing group that actually sticks — format, frequency, finding members, and the digital tools that keep it running. From a writer who's been doing it since 2016.
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Catherine Forrest
Jul 308 min read


I Built the Writing Tracker I Couldn't Find
ScribeTrack is a mobile app built by a writer, for writers, to track writing progress and calculate real writing data for authors.
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Catherine Forrest
Jul 305 min read


You Can’t Optimize Your Way Out of Bad Inputs (But You Can Fix Them Upstream)
Authors aren’t an external variable. They’re our front end. Optimize upstream or keep paying for it downstream.
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Catherine Forrest
May 14 min read
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