[announcer yells] GOALS: Episode 296

Words of the Year from 2021/New words for 2022<br/><br/>Jess: 2021: Organize 2022: Evaluate<br/><br/>KJ: 2021: Flow 2022: Play<br/><br/>Sarina: 2021 Generous 2022: TBD<br/><br/>Links from the Pod:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DKQKY28">Oh. What. Fun.</a> by Chandler Baker<br/><br/><a href="https://www.jetpens.com/">Jetpens</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview">Scrivener</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.hoopladigital.com/">Hoopla</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.overdrive.com/">Libby/Overdrive</a><br/><br/>Last week y&#8217;all heard me&#8212;KJ&#8212;rave about the coaching certification I&#8217;m working towards with our sponsor Author Accelerator. I have learned so much&#8212;about my own work, and how to help others&#8217; with theirs. I spent five years editing others&#8217; work at the New York Times, and I&#8217;m a good editor&#8212;but no one ever taught me how to help other writers feel excited about those edits before. (At the Times we kind of went in for the &#8220;my way or the highway&#8221; approach, with a solid dose of &#8220;if you can&#8217;t take the heat get out of the kitchen&#8221;.) And I&#8217;ve never understood story as well as I do now. If that all makes you intrigued to set some goals around starting up a book coaching career of your own, learn more at <a href="https://www.bookcoaches.com/">bookcoaches.com</a> or sign up with our affiliate code <a href="https://authoraccelerator.teachable.com/?affcode=27214_mac6fkqu">HERE</a>.<br/><br/>(And if you want to see what kind of (pretty dang limited) coaching I&#8217;m offering, click <a href="https://kjdellantonia.com/book-coaching/">HERE</a>.) <br/><br/>This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at <a href="https://amwriting.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast">amwriting.substack.com/subscribe</a>