Anne Wayman

108 things I’m grateful for this strange year of 2021 It’s a long standing tradition of mine to list 108 things I’m grateful for every Thanksgiving / Native American holiday morning.

Photo by Matthew Waring on Unsplash I’ve done a fair amount of coaching writers. Sometimes it’s been a formal relationship with me being paid well for my services. Sometimes it’s been more casual, as in a writing forum, or around a table in a coffee shop or over the phone when writing friend yells for help. Often clients come to me with unreasonable expectations. Here are six things you cannot expect from good writing coaches.

Photo by Bruno Figueiredo on Unsplash There was a time in my life that I felt guilty every time I wanted to say ‘no’ to someone. It didn’t matter if the request was trivial or important. I was afraid, if I refused, they wouldn’t like me anymore or if we were new to each other that they’d decide they didn’t like me after all. As a result I was often doing things I didn’t want to do, or in the case of writing, working for way less than I felt I was worth.