Mental Models For Writers And The Empowered Indie Author With Michael LaRonn
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Writing is absolutely about the practical step of getting words on the page — but your mindset can make the difference between success and failure, as well as how much you enjoy the author journey. In this interview, Michael La Ronn outlines mental models for writers, facing our fears to break through to creative success, […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:08.9 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.3 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 511 of the podcast. And it is Friday the 9th of October 2020 as I |
| 0:40.8 | record this. So today I'm talking to Michael the Ron about mental models for writers and |
| 0:46.6 | empowerment and lots of things. Actually, we have a wide-ranging interview from how he writes a lot |
| 0:52.8 | of books on a mobile phone, which I was particularly |
| 0:55.5 | interested in, why mindset is so important and how we have to face our fears to break through |
| 1:00.2 | creative challenges, mental models for writers, the empowerment of the independent author, |
| 1:05.6 | why cover design is such a common question, how we can support authors of colour, and also |
| 1:10.5 | how Michael's six-year-old |
| 1:12.1 | daughter is a pro with voice search and interacting with audio and voice first devices. And we |
| 1:17.7 | talk a bit about how that might shape the future. And remember, you can listen to podcast episodes |
| 1:23.5 | with Michael and separately with me on the Ask Ally podcast. Just search Ask Ally |
| 1:29.9 | A-L-I on your podcast app. And Michael does one a month with Orna Ross, as do I. So that is |
| 1:37.0 | available as well. So in publishing news, obviously I've recently talked about my own thoughts on subscription |
| 1:45.8 | and how they are inevitable, as they represent great value for consumers, but also they |
| 1:51.8 | will impact author income, as they have done for musicians. Mark Williams has just done a great |
| 1:57.4 | roundup of the current state of subscription models that impact indie authors on |
| 2:01.9 | the ally blog at self-publishing advice.org. I highly recommend, and obviously I'll link to this in |
| 2:07.2 | the show notes, but I highly recommend you go and look at this because I, especially if you're in |
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