The Truth About Writing a Book While Running a Business with Jessica Lackey

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and realities of writing a book while managing a business.

Think you need to have it all figured out before you write a book? Think the words will just flow once you finally sit down to write? Think you can't possibly juggle a book project with everything else on your plate? Well, it's time to stop wondering and start taking action if you are actually interested in writing a book for your business. I hear so often from clients and colleagues that writing a book has been on their to do list for quite some time. And with an MFA in creative writing, I'm...

People in this episode

Host: Erin Ollila

Guest: Jessica Lackey

Topics covered

• writing a book
• business
• entrepreneurship
• creative writing
• juggling projects

Keywords

• writing
• book
• business
• entrepreneurship
• creative writing
• project management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MFA in creative writing

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