Are you stuck with your writing? No idea why you can't put your butt in the chair or fingers on keys? Then listen to this episode and maybe Monica can shed some light on why it is you just can't get those words out. She also shares how she got productive after five years of barely being producing anything. Maybe it's not all in your head and you physically can't type or type that much. If so then Monica shares your pain and shares what else she has in her toolkit for getting the words out. Listen–or watch–to find out all this and more!

About our Guest:

Monica Leonelle was born in Germany and spent her childhood jet-setting around the world with her American parents. Her travels include most of the United States and Europe, as well as Guam, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and the Philippines. She started publishing independently in 2009 and has since published over half a million words of fiction spread across four series, Socialpunk, Waters Dark and Deep, Emma + Elsie, and Stars and Shadows. In 2014, she published 8 books and one short story. She writes about indie publishing at ProseOnFire.com. Her most recent non-fiction book, Write Better, Faster, has earned raving reviews from the independent publishing community for going deeper than anyone else into the topic of writing speed. She currently averages around 3,000 words per hour and writes 25,000+ words per week (most weeks).

Topics discussed:

• What are author blocks?
• How can you identify them?
• What strategies can you use to get past them?
• Get your family on board
• How to keep motivated
• Pomodoro method
• Two main types of productivity for a writer - burst writer or the slow and steady writer
• How big of a deal is dictation?
• Have you found your writing style differs when it’s written by dictation vs keyboard?
• How long has it taken to train your dragon, and what is it’s name?