🎵On The Third Day of Christmas
The writing advice Beth Kempton gave to me
How are you keeping up with this year’s Twelve Days of Christmas Writing Advice? Are you enjoying it day-by-day, or are you intending to binge it like a festive box-set at the end? I’d love to know.
If you’re new here, just a reminder that this series runs until Twelfth Night and every day until then you will hear from a different author with the best writing advice they have to impart to you.
On the first day of Christmas, we heard from Black Butterflies’ author Priscilla Morris, and yesterday we heard from
with her great advice to write as if your life depended on it, you can catch up with that post here:🎵On The Second Day of Christmas
Happy Boxing Day! I hope you have woken up suitably stuffed with turkey and you had a wonderful day yesterday.
And here we arrive on the third day of Christmas.
So who do I have for you today? It’s
.Beth is a Japanologist and a bestselling self-help author and writer mentor, whose books have been translated into nearly 30 languages. She is also a qualified yoga teacher and Reiki Master, trained in the Japanese tradition in Tokyo.
Her sixth book, Kokoro: Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived is a follow up to her earlier bestseller Wabi Sabi. More than 40,000 people have taken Beth’s online writing classes, which complement her book The Way of the Fearless Writer. She also has her own hugely successful Substack which you can subscribe to here. Plus, as if all that wasn’t enough, tomorrow (December 28) she launches her free winter writing sanctuary which you are all invited to attend and you can find details here.
So let’s see what wisdom she has to impart to you today…