12 Week Year for Writers

12 Week Year for Writers

Trevor Thrall & Leilah Moodley

Episodes 37
Avg. Duration 38m
Activity Sporadic
Since Aug 2021
Latest Episode Oct 2025

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Monthly
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

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.

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Why the World Needs Your Voice

Oct 30, 2025 30m

Send us a textEver feel like your topic is taken, your niche is crowded, and your draft adds nothing new? Let’s flip that script. We walk through five clear reasons your words matter now—starting…

Embracing Uncertainty

Oct 07, 2025 38m

Send us a textCheck out the Embracing Uncertainty Workshop, October 20, 2025!The draft feels stuck, the notes aren’t talking, and your outline suddenly looks like wishful thinking. We’ve all been…

Putting Your Butt in the Chair

Sep 24, 2025 41m

Send us a textThe biggest challenge for most writers isn't talent or ideas—it's simply showing up. Ever meant to write but somehow the coffee, inbox, or laundry won instead? You're not alone.In this…

Pitch Perfect: How to Write a Letter That Lands You a Publishing Deal

Aug 11, 2025 41m

Send us a textLanding 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…

The Productivity Killer: Understanding—and Overcoming—Procrastination

Jul 19, 2025 41m

Send us a textProcrastination afflicts even the most talented and ambitious writers. That half-finished manuscript, the brilliant idea gathering dust, the writing project continually pushed to…

What To Do When Your Plan Hits the Fan

Oct 18, 2024 24m

Send us a textIt 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…

Writing Like a Human

Jun 01, 2024 47m

Send us a textWe’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

May 18, 2024 32m

Send us a textDo 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 startYou want to write a book about a new topic, or a…

What is the Rock in Your Shoe?

Apr 18, 2024 37m

Send us a textIs 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

Dec 20, 2023 33m

Send us a textEverywhere 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

Oct 11, 2023 36m

Send us a textDo 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

Aug 30, 2023 36m

Send us a textDid 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…

Showing Up to Write (Why We Don't, How We Can)

Jun 20, 2023 42m

Send us a textHave 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…

Aligning Your Writer Rhythms with Writing Reality

Mar 13, 2023 26m

Send us a textDid 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

Jan 26, 2022 40m

Send us a textIf 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

Jan 17, 2022 32m

Send us a textWelcome 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…

How the Growth Mindset Can Unlock Your Writing Potential

Jan 10, 2022 42m

Send us a textAre 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

Jan 03, 2022 47m

Send us a textIt’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…

The 13th Week and 2021 in Review

Dec 27, 2021 37m

Send us a textIf 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…

Why Do You Write?

Dec 20, 2021 45m

Send us a textLet 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…

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12 Week Year for Writers has published 37 episodes since August 2021, covering topics in Education, Self-Improvement.

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