While speaking at a local writer’s conference, I had the pleasure of meeting Suzanne Harris, a writing coach and “get-it-written” strategist. Her work helps writers take charge of their writing life, deal with resistance, finish their projects and make more out of their writing dreams. So I asked her if she could apply some of her insights to platform building – here’s what she has to say…

As a writers’ coach, I know first hand how many of you struggle to fit writing into your busy lives.

You’re already heroically juggling any combination of full-time, part-time, freelance, or volunteer work, along with grocery shopping, meal making, appointments, child care, errands, house work, yard work, family, friends in need…

Yet when you get a small in-between space you slip off to your pages and let the words come, because despite it all, dammit, you are a writer.

But you never signed up to be an entrepreneur, and now all this platform stuff… where the heck are you going to find time to do all that? [Read more…]