Here’s why that matters and how I did it. — I started posting on TikTok about two weeks ago. Late last night, I reached 1000 followers. You can find that here. Ninja Writers (Shaunta Grimes) (@ninjawriters) TikTok | Watch Ninja Writers (Shaunta Grimes)'s… Ninja Writers (Shaunta Grimes) (@ninjawriters) on TikTok | 2.5K Likes. 1K Fans. Writer/Teacher Bit of a mess I'll help…www.tiktok.com There are a couple of reasons why it’s important to get to 1000 followers on TikTok. I’m going to talk about each of them. …

Control what you can control. Let the rest take care of itself. — I came across someone on Tik Tok this week. They have 10 million followers. Ten. Million. They put on makeup and 10 million people pay attention. And someone else who has 1.5 million followers. They got a book deal. I’m not going to lie. It’s hard to look at my…

It’s time for the second annual Blog-Your-Own-Book Challenge! — Last June, I thought to myself — what if we challenged everyone to write a blog post a day for one month. That morphed into something more like what if we challenged everyone to write a blog post a day for a month and turn those posts into a book? …

Meet FRED . . . — FRED is the folder for reaching the end of your draft. And he is magical. This deceptively simple little tool keeps me on track, reminds me that I’m a real writer (when I need that reminder), and makes sure I actually finish my projects. …

An essay by Sharon Astyk — By Sharon Astyk First published on September 21, 2022 The kids went back to school two weeks ago, which means you’ll be hearing more from me. It also means that I’m pretty much incandescent with rage every single minute. For example, I have kids in three schools. One simply doesn’t eat or drink all day because she can’t…

(And how you can, too.) — Hello there! Since today is the LAST day to join the Ninja Writers Club and the Ninja Writers Guild for a while . . . I want to show you exactly what’s possible if you put your mind (and heart, and energy) into your goals. In 2015, I had a…

Let me be your shotgun ride-or-die. — Dear Amazing Writer: What I want most is to make you question your life. Seriously. I love collecting Ninja Writers who tell me that joining our community was life changing. They’d wanted to be writers ​forever​, but it wasn’t until they found us that they actually started doing the work…

What are you doing with your life right now? — Now that you have your big lists of possibilities, it’s time to really analyze them. You can see lesson one in this mini-course here. Nonfiction Mini-Course: (Day One) Make a Master List of Income Stream Ideas What have you done with your life so far?shauntagrimes.medium.com And lesson two, here. Nonfiction Mini-Course: (Day Two) Make a Master List of Income Stream Ideas What are you doing with your life right now?shauntagrimes.medium.com

Putting our lists back together, into ideas. — Over the last couple of days, you’ve created lists of characters, settings, and situations. Today–the magic happens! It’s time to fire up our idea machines. What I want you to do is take one item off each list and combine them together. One character, one setting, and one situation. Read…