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- Yesterday5 min
The Ocean Workbook: Diving In
Welcome back to a special edition of B is for Book Coach. In these episodes, I’m reading through pieces of You Don’t Get to the Ocean by Accident—the workbook version of the early work I do with all of my authors.If you want to follow along or jump ahead, pocket-sized copies are available on Amazon, and every Substack subscriber gets a fillable PDF copy as well.Today, we’re reading from: Diving In.Enjoying this space? It takes all of us to create it together! When you become a one-time or ongoing Momentum Partner, two things happen.First, you get to join a small but growing group of folks who pop in for Office Hours twice a month to sort out their content and travel this journey together.Second, you add to the Mutual Momentum fund, which helps to bring deeper development support to authors who need more than just space to get started.You can create a one-time boost of Momentum or subscribe to keep the forward movement going for us all. Get full access to B is for Book Coach at bisforbookcoach.substack.com/subscribe
- 2 weeks ago14 min
Check Your Posture—Prevent Future Book Pain
Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for posture.All posture is much more complex than it seems—in your body and your book.- The mechanics of physical posture- The parallels in book posture- How to look closer at the posture you hold as an author, your reader holds when arriving to your book, and the space the book holds for you both- The pain that doing this might create (and the pain NOT doing this definitely does) Enjoying this space? It takes all of us to create it together! When you become a one-time or ongoing Momentum Partner, two things happen.First, you get to join a small but growing group of folks who pop in for Office Hours twice a month to sort out their content and travel this journey together.Second, you add to the Mutual Momentum fund, which helps to bring deeper development support to authors who need more than just space to get started.You can create a one-time boost of Momentum here, or subscribe to keep the forward movement going for us all. Get full access to B is for Book Coach at bisforbookcoach.substack.com/subscribe
- Apr 6, 20265 min
Finding Words that Belong
Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for words that belong.For the past several months, I’ve been working with the incredible Hussein al-Baiaty over at Rising Authors to get my new website up and running.But the website was just the output. What we were really spending all that time on was what the website should contain.Not should as in “supposed to.” Should as in “belongs.”- The difference between checking the boxes and making it right- Creating the conditions for connection- Intentional vs incidental outcomesEnjoying this space? It takes all of us to create it together! Become a one-time or ongoing Momentum Partner, or access a more focused supportive space here. Get full access to B is for Book Coach at bisforbookcoach.substack.com/subscribe
- Mar 23, 20269 min
Magenta Books & Stories that Take Up Space
Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for connection.You and your experience are worth witnessing.This is a true statement, no matter who you are or what your experience is.You matter.Your story matters.Choosing to share any part of yourself—from ideas to lived experience to insights—is a generous gift that holds intrinsic value whether or not it creates a return.And if you’re writing a Magenta Signature Connection book type, this belief is the cornerstone of your entire project.- Meet the Spectrum- Meet Magenta- Creating the container for connection- Audacious vulnerability- Avoiding overshare- Tips for Magenta authors- Remembering why you're hereEnjoying this space? It takes all of us to create it together! When you become a one-time or ongoing Momentum Partner, two things happen.First, you get to join a small but growing group of folks who pop in for Office Hours twice a month to sort out their content and travel this journey together.Second, you add to the Mutual Momentum fund, which helps to bring deeper development support to authors who need more than just space to get started.Create a one-time boost of Momentum or subscribe to keep the forward movement going for us all. Get full access to B is for Book Coach at bisforbookcoach.substack.com/subscribe
- Mar 2, 202639 min
The Power of Noticing: An Author's View of His Final Project
Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for noticing.Hear directly from my friend and author about the experience of writing his last book, with clips of a conversation recorded a month into post-publish territory—a month into borrowed time, according to the prognosis he’d been given, and only a few months before he passed away.Before we go any further, I want you to know that it’s okay if this one’s too heavy to sit with. If for any reason you don’t want to continue on, I completely understand.If you’re still with me, I’d like you to meet Will, author of The Power of Noticing.On Taking His Time~7 minutesOn Writing through Chemo~4 minutesOn Books being One Thing~5 minutesOn Going Deep with Experience~8 minutesOn Writing with Three Months to Live~8 minutesEnjoying this space? It takes all of us to create it together! When you become a one-time or ongoing Momentum Partner, two things happen.First, you get to join a small but growing group of folks who pop in for Office Hours twice a month to sort out their content and travel this journey together.Second, you add to the Mutual Momentum fund, which helps to bring deeper development support to authors who need more than just space to get started.Create a one-time boost of Momentum or subscribe to keep the forward movement going for us all. Get full access to B is for Book Coach at bisforbookcoach.substack.com/subscribe
- Feb 23, 20269 min
The Ocean Workbook: Using the Table of Content
Welcome back to a special edition of B is for Book Coach. In these episodes, I’m reading through pieces of You Don’t Get to the Ocean by Accident—the workbook version of the early work I do with all of my authors.If you want to follow along or jump ahead, pocket-sized copies are available on Amazon, and every Substack subscriber gets a fillable PDF copy as well.Today, we’re reading from: Using the Table of Content.A follow up to this episode: https://bisforbookcoach.substack.com/p/the-ocean-workbook-the-table-of-contentReferencing a Kurt Vonnegut video found here: https://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ?si=UDMGMT0OgVMoMi5n Get full access to B is for Book Coach at bisforbookcoach.substack.com/subscribe
- Feb 16, 20267 min
The Mess is Where the Magic Happens
Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for the mess.Do you remember the old Reese’s candy campaign, “There’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s”?In retrospect, this was probably meant to counter KitKat’s “break me off a piece of that KitKat bar” methodology.KitKat might not be my favorite candy, but their approach makes sense.Simplicity is appealing.So when I talk about simplified templates and processes and systems for writing (and I get a smidge of irritation in my voice), I don’t blame them either.When you’re looking back and forth between the intricacy of a completed book and the mish-mash that is your concept-in-progress…well, it’s natural to want it all broken into pieces.I’m just a “no wrong way to eat a Reese’s” kind of person.- Becoming the candymaker- Getting comfortable in the test kitchen- Finding your own recipe for writingEnjoying this space? It takes all of us to create it together! When you become a one-time or ongoing Momentum Partner, two things happen.First, you get to join a small but growing group of folks who pop in for Office Hours twice a month to sort out their content and travel this journey together.Second, you add to the Mutual Momentum fund, which helps to bring deeper development support to authors who need more than just space to get started.You can create a one-time boost of Momentum, or subscribe to keep the forward movement going for us all. Get full access to B is for Book Coach at bisforbookcoach.substack.com/subscribe
- Feb 9, 202610 min
Why Books Are Worth All...This
Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for the future.In this month’s subscriber update, I said something that might need a bit more explanation.I said that “community is the future of books.”And I meant it.- Why we're looking tot he future of books- What I mean by community- What books can actually create- How to make that happenEnjoying this space? It takes all of us to create it together! When you become a one-time or ongoing Momentum Partner, two things happen.First, you get to join a small but growing group of folks who pop in for Office Hours twice a month to sort out their content and travel this journey together.Second, you add to the Mutual Momentum fund, which helps to bring deeper development support to authors who need more than just space to get started.Create a one-time boost of Momentum here, or subscribe to keep the forward movement going for us all. Get full access to B is for Book Coach at bisforbookcoach.substack.com/subscribe
About B is for Book Coach
Hi, I’m Brannan (you can call me B). I help non-writers write books that change themselves, their readers, and the world. And I do it all without asking them to become anything other than the expert, thoughtful, conscious, brilliant humans they already are. bisforbookcoach.substack.com
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