Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach
Helping you thrive as a 21st Century Creative
I hope this finds you as well as can be. Here in the UK we’re bracing for what we are assured will be a large wave of Omicron. I know things may be very different for you, depending on where …
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A lot of productivity advice tells us that we need to stop procrastinating, beat Resistance, and get things done. The Americans like to talk about ‘shipping’, meaning finished and sent out for …
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Today’s guest on The 21st Century Creative is Cynthia Morris, a coach for creatives who shares insights on the book-writing process, based on her latest book The Busy Woman’s Guide to Writing a …
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Today I want to persuade you that systems can set you free. You might not associate systems with freedom, but bear with me while I explain. This morning I’m writing this article for you. The …
This week’s guest on The 21st Century Creative Podcast is Joanna Penn, an Award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers and dark fantasy, which she writes as J.F. Penn. …
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Our world has been turned upside down. It may be broken forever, given that we may never get back to the life we had before. And right now, the entire world is dependent on creativity. Across …
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This week's guest on The 21st Century Creative is Nadia Shireen, an award-winning and bestselling children’s author and illustrator. Her books include Good Little Wolf, The Bumblebear, The Cow Who …
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The poet Philip Larkin said that all his best poems were written in rooms on the top floor of a building. He once had to live in a basement flat, and got writer’s block. He didn’t elaborate but …
Have you ever got yourself tied up in knots while working on an important piece of writing? You spend ages staring at the screen, writing, deleting and rewriting, over and over again. The harder …
