The Keep Writing Podcast

When we start a new year, we want to get right to the action. Well, let me ask you: How is that working for you? My guess is, not well, or at least, not consistently well.   To create something new with your belief plan and your habit goal (from episodes 92 and 93), you need a results plan for what you’re going to create! You can believe with all your heart to see new results, but when there...

How do you think you will feel when you finish your book? Joyful? Excited? Accomplished? Satisfied?   Here’s the truth: those feelings will not be automatic. You must create that emotion from a thought. And if you can do it when the book is finished, you can do it now! In this episode, I’m going to teach you how you can use the emotion you plan to feel later as your motivational drive to get...

Let’s write a lot of books in 2022, what do you say? I believe we can do it. And why wouldn’t we? It has never been easier to get a book into readers’ hands. In fact, if you choose self-publishing, your book could be available by the end of the year. Your book is possible!   In this episode, I will teach you how to make a goal and map it out in five steps: Seek God Set an Outcome Goal Set a H...

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Did you know your words are seeds that will create results in your life? Listen to find out the ways you may be sabotaging yourself. To watch the video version of this episode on my YouTube channel, click here . The post 81: Words Create the Path We Take appeared first on Nika Maples .

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In this episode, I read an excerpt from Hunting Hope : “The speed of my answer surprised me when someone recently asked, “What’s next for you?” “Obedience,” I answered. “That’s always what’s next for me.” Maybe I have finally learned that any other plan won’t work. Obedience is my plan. Obedience was the plan for most of the tide-changers in the Bible. This year I made a little project of marking...

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Is the pursuit of perfection holding you back? I’ve found that many people hesitate to do anything if they aren’t sure that it is going to turn out perfectly. Maybe one solution for perfection paralysis is simply making an attempt. I’ll explain what I mean through an excerpt from my book, Everyday Genesis: “When I taught English in public schools, sometimes students would complain if they didn’t f...

I bet it feels safe to say, “I don’t know.” We say it ALL DAY LONG. But James 1:5-7 tells us that wisdom is available. God give it generously, whenever we ask in faith. So is it ever reasonable to say I don’t know? Here are some things that you can say instead. Listen to the full episode to learn more … The post 75: The Toxic Phrase You Keep Saying appeared first on Nika Maples .

You should write before you’re ready. People think that they are “supposed to feel ready” before they begin a challenge.  That is the Readiness Myth. It’s a myth because it is through completing a challenge that you become the person who is ready for it.  It’s crazy but true. The challenge itself makes you into exactly who you thought you were supposed to be before you started. Readiness...

There is a phrase I hear a lot from my book coaching clients. They say, “I am so confused.” My answer is simple: What if there is no right answer to your question? See, every writer wants to know “this or that.” Should I write this topic or that topic first? Should I use this style or that style? Should I purchase this writing program or that writing program? Should I go to this writing conference...

I love my nieces and their friends. I pray for them every day, asking the Lord to make them strong-hearted and devoted to Him, free from the bondage of comparison. Because I know how painful comparison can be. My guess is that you do too. Comparison gets us nowhere fast. Because when we are looking to the right and left, we are not looking straight ahead, and when we aren’t looking straight ahead,...

When book coaching clients tell me that they don’t have enough time to write, my answer is simple: What if that is okay? Let’s get real. On the face of things, we all know we are lying to ourselves a little bit when we say we don’t have enough time. Because time is the only thing that is equal for everyone. God decided to give everyone the same amount within every day. We all get 24 hours to work...

Writers, we have to start by asking ourselves whose job it is to love us. It is not your publisher’s job to love you. It is not your literary agent’s job to love you. It is not your reader’s job to love you. It is not your friends’ job to love you. It is not your family’s job to love you. Whaaat? You may have just balked on the last two. I had you nodding and rolling along, but then then you came...