(H)eart HAPI Compass related articles and resources
We believe in what we call the HAPI Compass to building a successful career, which revolves around four points. Point it at your work and your direction comse into view:
- (H)eart: the projects and inspiration that give you goosebumps and will resonate deeply with your customers.
(H)eart HAPI Compass related articles and resources
- (A)udience: the people orbiting those ideas, ready to championing them, amplify your reach, and fall deeply in love with what you create.
(A)udience HAPI Compass related articles and resources
- (P)rioritization: Deep focus on one high-leverage move at a time, letting it pay off, then reinvesting the space and cash it creates to widen your runway and buy yourself time for what matters.
(P)rioritization HAPI Compass related articles and resources
- (I)ncome: Generating the money that sustains your ideal life while fueling the creative work that lights you up.
(I)ncome HAPI Compass related articles and resources
Plot those four points, and you have more than a framework. You have a living compass. When you start to drift in one of the four points, you can use the others to center yourself again.
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Heart is is all about making projects that deeply resonate, both with yourself and your audience. These are some of our most popular articles to help you get in the right.
Resources to help you
While we have an extensive archive of articles about building a writing career, we also offer several other resources to help entrepreneurs build better businesses. Some of these are available for free. Others are available only to paid members. Articles are listed below these resources.
Getting better at making stuff
- ​How to Write Irresistible Books that Readers Devour​
- ​Write a Great Novel course​
- The Hapitalist podcast
- The Complete Creative podcast archive
- ​How to set up and run an awesome anthology course​
- ​Script library​
- ​Lessons and lectures​
- ​Interview archive​
- ​Complete Creative data archive
Developing a stronger mindset/strategy
- 🎴Hapitalist Business Tarot
- ​How to Thrive as a Writer in a Capitalist Dystopia​
- ​Publishing is Broken, But It Doesn’t Have to Break Us​
- ​How to Build Your Creative Career​
- ​How to Become a Successful Author​
- ​Advanced Growth Tactics for Authors​
- ​10x your productivity course​
- ​Write a Great Novel course​
- ​Hapitalist podcast​
- ​The Complete Creative podcast archive​
- ​Complete Creative data archive
Articles
Recalibrating your HAPI Compass
What Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu can teach you about happiness
Building a business tarot deck and what it taught me about clarity, systems, and letting go
Are your expectations even realistic given your current reality, tho?
You're asking the wrong question
The art of harnessing chaos magic
7 Publishing Mistakes I Made So You Don’t Have to
Writing History When History Is Fragmented
Is this any good? Maybe. We’ll see.
Unlocking the transformational power of Ecosystems
Creating lifelong customers by embedding psychological buying triggers deep into your brand
A framework for engineering winning days
3 Reasons Why I Love the Return To Small Town Trope
The point of this article doesn’t exist (and yet you'll still read it)
Vibe coding your way to indie success with Chelle Honiker
Break your biggest blocks: Craft Con highlight reel
The art of joyful expansion into consumables with Maggie Beeler
7 steps to thriving as a writer in a changing publishing world
The Novel Blueprint: Transforming your story from idea to final book
Why you must risk the bad to experience the good
Tech companies lied to us, and it's causing a creative crisis
Taking a knockout punch without getting knocked down
How to Hook Readers by Stealing Television’s Binge-Worthy Secrets
How to trick yourself into moving forward as a creator
The problem circling sustainable productivity (that nobody's talking about)
The publishing industry is broken, but it doesn't have to break us
Yes, writing a great book people read is marketing, too
Lessons in Chemistry: Crafting 2023's Most Popular Read
The new Super Nintendo World at Universal Hollywood is peak late-stage capitalism
Short circuiting the Substack burnout cycle
If a tree falls in your front yard...
May December: Tabloids, Trauma and Tolstoy in the Age Gap Trope
How to quiet down your negative self-talk
Stop sabotaging your book with bad covers and blurbs
Is it even possible to be a writer AND happy at the same time?
Objectively good and subjectively your jam...
The universe is dumb and capitalism is nonsense
Publishing is Changing—Why? And how to we take advantage of it
Rev up your inciting incident with the Enneagram
The secrets behind $10k Secrets
Outward success, inward turbulence
Most of your best readers haven't even been born yet
How to use technology and productivity hacks to reclaim your time for things that matter
Fling people past you as far and as often as possible.
Be interesting enough for long enough around enough people
How Substack fits into the future of publishing
You build the structure for your next launch during your current launch
Bouncing back: The defining feature of successful creators
I made a weird goal this year...
We all deserve unconditional grace and forgiveness
Charting your writing success path from style to scale
The best work of your life might be behind you
How partnerships change over time (and why we've been thinking about them all wrong)
The era of rapid trend cycles in publishing
How each Author Ecosystem writes to market
Unlocking the transformational power of Author Ecosystems
The art of sustainable productivity
When your brain says "write!" but your body says, "nope."
How to Get Actual Feedback from Beta Readers (Not Just 'I Loved It!')
Down and dirty character tricks
Why sequels fail (and how writers can avoid repeating their mistakes)
Why you must risk the bad to experience the good
Creating Accessible Content: Don’t Miss Out on Connecting with Your Audience
How I Accidentally Published an Activity Book For Kids
Writing Books for Netflix, Disney, Lucasfilm, and More
How to write about trans people with respect
Ink and Intent: How Creative Planning Uplifts Authors and Poets
How to reframe capitalism to make sales and marketing work (better) for you
How I "evolved" beyond my natural SCALE path
How to fall in love with book marketing
How to survive as a writer in a capitalist dystopia
How to improve your mental state by embracing neutral thinking
Are you seeing things clearly in your writing career?
What if the skills that made you a successful writer start to ruin your life?
How to design a signature series
How to get a book publishing deal
Writing nonfiction that resonates so deeply people have no choice but to change
How to write faster without sacrificing quality using dictation
It's magic that anything works at all
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