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Making the Most of Writing Advice Series
Links to every post in the “Making the Most of Writing Advice” series.
Image © 2026 by Ann Cooper
Making the Most of Writing Advice: Goal Setting, Permission, and Validation
SMART goals should be achievable, but what does that really mean? This post is about making more ambitious goals and pursuing them with self-compassion.
Image © 2026 by Ann Cooper
Making the Most of Writing Advice: Tune Your Perspective
This is the first post in a series on making the most of writing advice without getting overwhelmed. We’re starting with two principles for putting writing advice into perspective: consider the source and remember that everyone’s process is different.
Image: Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Dora Greenwell, and Dalziel Brothers, Young woman leaning against a wall reading a book as snowflakes fall, wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers, 1863, after E. Burne-Jones, Wellcome Collection, https://jstor.org/stable/community.24885859.