12 Week Year for Writers
The 12 Week Year for Writers podcast is hosted by Trevor Thrall, Ph.D., author of The 12 Week Year for Writers. We dive deep on strategies and tools to help writers be their most productive selves.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 34
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Pitch Perfect: How to Write a Letter That Lands You a Publishing Deal
Landing a publishing deal often feels like an impossible dream for aspiring authors. What makes one manuscript stand out among thousands? How can you ensure your pitch letter doesn't en…
The Productivity Killer: Understanding—and Overcoming—Procrastination
Procrastination afflicts even the most talented and ambitious writers. That half-finished manuscript, the brilliant idea gathering dust, the writing project continually pushed to tomorr…
What To Do When Your Plan Hits the Fan
It happens to all of us: you make a beautiful plan, you’re pumped and ready to go. Then life happens, things go sideways, and you suddenly find yourself weeks behind. If you don’t do so…
Writing Like a Human
We’re all getting the message every day. Generative AI is changing the world at warp speed. Every week reveals new possibilities for working more efficiently. Nothing will be the same. …
The Research Trap
Do any of the following scenarios sound familiar?
- You know you need to do some research for your book, but you have no idea where to start
- You want to write a book about a new topic, or a…
What is the Rock in Your Shoe?
Is there a rock in your shoe keeping you from writing?
I don't just mean a garden variety obstacle, I'm talking about a major productivity or dream killer. Is there something that needs…
Five Strategies for Finishing What You Start
Everywhere I look I see workshops promising to help you get a fast start to 2024. And that’s great! But here’s the thing: how many times have you or someone you know got off to a quick …
Mastering the Art of Slow Progress
Do you ever hear yourself saying these sorts of things?
- I don’t have enough time to write
- I don’t have enough energy to keep going to the end
- I am so demoralized at how slow this is …
Five Strategies for Finding Focus When Life Gets Crazy
Did you know that the average person spends just 47 seconds before switching from looking at one screen/window on their computer to looking at another? Or that it takes 25 minutes to re…
Showing Up to Write (Why We Don't, How We Can)
Have you ever had one of those periods where you just couldn’t write consistently? Maybe your schedule was too chaotic. Maybe you got super busy at work. Or maybe you found yourself loo…
Aligning Your Writer Rhythms with Writing Reality
Did you ever have a writing project where everything just clicked? I mean, from the beginning when you had the idea to the finished product, everything just went great, and quickly? And…
Tools of the Trade with Scrivener for Dummies Author Gwen Hernandez
If you write fiction (and even if you don't), my guess is that you use, have used, or are thinking about using Scrivener, one of the most popular writing apps on the planet.
If you are …
Tools of the Trade with Plottr Founders Cameron Sutter and Ryan Zee
Welcome to the Get Your Writing Done podcast, I’m Trevor Thrall, author of The 12 Week Year for Writers. If you enjoy today’s episode, please submit a review wherever you get your podca…
How the Growth Mindset Can Unlock Your Writing Potential
Are great writers born or made? Is your productivity level something fixed, or can you become a more productive person over time? If you haven’t written a book by age 30, will you ever?…
Optimizing Epiphanies: Three Steps to Launching Successful Writing Projects
It’s a new year and for many of us that means it’s time to launch ambitious new writing projects. And that’s great, because the world needs more of what you’re doing. But it turns out t…
The 13th Week and 2021 in Review
If you aren’t a 12 Week Year follower, you might be surprised to learn that a key element of the 12 Week Year system is, in fact, a 13th week. The 13th week is dedicated to assessing th…
Why Do You Write?
Let me ask you a simple question: Why do you write?
This question - so simple and unassuming and yet so profound - is the starting point for our conversation about motivation. We all hav…
Building Resilience, with Susan Scott
Today I sit down with Susan Scott, counselor, leadership coach, author, and founder of Life Inspired, Inc., a company that provides life design and coaching for leaders and life coaches…
Dealing with Imposter Syndrome
Have you ever been thinking about a writing project but then said, I don’t know everything I need to know about that so I shouldn’t start that project right now, I should wait until I’m…
How to Survive the Holidays: Writer's Edition
Welcome to the Get Your Writing Done podcast, I’m Trevor Thrall, author of The 12 Week Year for Writers. If you enjoy today’s episode, please submit a review wherever you get your podca…