Episode Details

Author and host of Become A Writer Today Podcast, Bryan Collins, joins the SPA today from Ireland. We love our Irish guests and are super stoked to welcome him here today to talk all things Creativity and how to pull yourself out of a creative rut.

Topics covered include finding the time to write, author expectations, free writing, conquering writers block, simple ways to improve productivity and the power of crafting a personal mission statement for your own writing.

About Bryan

Bryan Collins:

Bryan fell in love with the art of writing when he was just 7 years old. After failing as an Irish journalist and short story writer, he drifted in and out of other jobs and spent a year as a stay-at-home Dad.

Broke, lacking self-belief and feeling a lack of purpose, Bryan decided to go back into writing but this time focused on learning skills like copywriting and content marketing.

He became an award-winning senior content marketer for Sage – one of the top accounting software companies in the world and launched ‘Become a Writer Today’ which generated 2,500,000 page views over the past year.

He’s been a guest writer for major publications like Lifehacker, FastCompany, and Copyblogger. He’s also a former Forbes contributor. His writing online has been viewed over 10 million times

He’s also the author of several bestselling books including, ‘The Art of Writing a Non-Fiction Book’, ‘The Power of Creativity’, and ‘Yes, You Can Write’.

On his top-ranked podcast, Bryan has interviewed NY Times bestselling authors including Daniel Pink, James Clear, and Joanna Penn.

Bryan’s website is:

http://www.becomeawritertoday.com/

Resources mentioned:

Books:

Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon

Essays by Joan Didion (Essays — Joan Didion)  https://www.thejoandidion.com/essays/

Story by Robert McKee

Seven Habits of Effective People by Stephen Covey