Tag: self help

  • 3 Ways to Be More Organized

    A reporter recently interviewed me about how to be more organized. Which I secretly found funny, because I don’t feel particularly organized. At all. And yet people frequently tell me that I am the most organized person they know. Pfft. Obviously, they don’t know the real me, right? Just because I color-code my file folders,…

  • The Bulletproof Secret to Doing Anything Better

    The Bulletproof Secret to Doing Anything Better

    Every writer I’ve ever talked to always wants to achieve more. (Even Hugh Howey.) We all want to reach more readers, sell more books, write better stories, and so on. All of us, writers or not, want to do more and do it better. The question is, how?

  • Podcast: making The Leap to full-time writer

    Listen to my interview on The Leap podcast, where we talk about making major life changes, being creative, conquering fear, and striving for the life you really want to live. Here’s an excerpt: THE LEAP: Laurence, what can you tell people about making the leap themselves? What should they look out for? What should they…

  • How to Tell Good Inspiration from Bad

    How to Tell Good Inspiration from Bad

    The other day, I was fielding questions about my upcoming novel when the topic of inspiration came up. How do you know when you’re inspired by a really good idea? And more important, how do you tell a good inspiration from a bad one? I had to think long and hard about the answer to that. Because…