Author Mindset: Strengths For Writers With Becca Syme
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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We all have different strengths as writers, but sometimes we don't know what they are. Or we get frustrated because we try to succeed at something that just won't work for our personality. In this interview, Becca Syme explains how our strengths can help us and how to ‘question the premise' whenever we face different […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Pen with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 572 of the podcast. And it is Friday the 3rd of September 2021, as I record this. |
| 0:42.6 | In today's show, I'm talking to Becca Syme about discovering your strengths as a writer. |
| 0:48.6 | And we get pretty personal with this interview, and you might have noticed how much I'm |
| 0:52.9 | questioning my own career at this point. |
| 0:55.3 | It is almost 10 years or in fact I'll be sharing my 10 years next week and since I went full |
| 1:01.1 | time. And my discussion with Becca helped a lot with some of the things I've been thinking about |
| 1:06.6 | and what I discovered with my Clifton Strengths Assessment, which we discuss. |
| 1:12.3 | So I found Becker's Quit Books really useful and we have a great conversation. |
| 1:17.2 | I know you'll find it interesting. |
| 1:18.9 | And I highly recommend Becker's books and her QuickCast YouTube channel as she is very wise and I found our session super helpful. |
| 1:30.3 | So that is coming up in the interview section. In publishing and book marketing news this week, there's a very interesting article |
| 1:37.3 | by Agent Kristen Nelson on her blog called 14 reasons agenting is harder now than 20 years ago. Now to set the context, |
| 1:47.6 | Kristen is very well known for being an excellent agent and also open to her authors being |
| 1:52.5 | hybrid and she's worked with some very big indie authors and those who are hybrid as well. |
| 1:56.8 | And she has some great articles on her site. It's one of the, I think of fact, it's the only blog I follow from agents. And she has some great articles on her site. It's one of the, I think, in fact, it's the only |
| 2:01.4 | blog I follow from agents. And so I definitely recommend having a look at her site at nelsonagency.com. |
| 2:09.5 | But this particular post, although it's about agent, why agenting is harder, it's also got some |
| 2:14.1 | great insights that relate to authors. So I'll just share a few of them. She says, |
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