HeyJaredThe Adventurous Author | Finish Book, Writing Discipline, Creative Writing, Character Development, Christian Podcast
There’s a book inside you. A message that won’t leave you alone.But between fear, responsibility, doubt — and now the rise of AI — you keep starting… and stopping.Welcome to The Adventurous Author Podcast.I’m Bonnie Jean Schaefer — fantasy author D.K.
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How Much of Yourself Does Your Job Get When Your Dreams Need You Too? | 223 (opens the original)
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How much of yourself is your job supposed to get? The danger is that I can spend my best energy being excellent at the work I'm paid to do, then arrive at the work I believe I'm supposed to build with whatever is left of me. I want to do excellent work. But my job isn't the whole assignment. Work, family, health, relationships, ministry, creativity, rest. They can all be good responsibilities. They cannot all receive maximum effort. In this episode of Faithful Finisher, I'm wrestling with the di
I Kind of Hope Nobody Takes It Yet | 222 (opens the original)
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I spent weeks building the Faithful Finisher Diagnostic. Then I published it and thought: I kind of hope nobody takes it yet. Because once real people encounter your work, you get something another revision can't give you: reality. In this episode, I'm wrestling with the line between responsible improvement and hiding, and a standard I'm learning to use when I don't know if something is ready: It's workable. It's improvable. But I'm going for it anyway. If you're stuck in one more revision, one
The Middle Is Not Nowhere: What to Do When Progress Feels Like Failure | 221 (opens the original)
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I was halfway through building the Faithful Finisher Diagnostic when I caught myself saying, “I’ve gotten nowhere.” Except I hadn’t. I was in the middle. And the middle is dangerous because all you can see is what still isn’t finished. In this episode, we talk about how to stop confusing unfinished with failure, read the trail accurately, and find the next faithful marker when the summit still feels far away. Because sometimes the clearest evidence that the work “isn’t working” is simply that yo
Attack the Root: Why You Keep Getting Stuck in the Same Place | 220 (opens the original)
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There’s something satisfying about cutting down a wall of kudzu with a bushwhacker. Until you realize the root is still alive. That afternoon in the yard made me think about the places we keep fading in our own lives: the project we keep redesigning, the workout we keep skipping, the dream we keep almost finishing. What if the visible behavior is only the weed? In this episode, we go underneath the pattern and ask a harder question: what am I believing, fearing, wanting, or protecting when I sto
Why The Adventurous Author is becoming Faithful Finisher | 219 (opens the original)
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I’ve tried to build a podcast before. More than once. For a long time, I thought consistency was the problem. I needed a better schedule. Better topics. More discipline. But I finally realized I was building a microphone before I built a trail. I knew I had things to say, so I kept trying to figure out what I was qualified to talk about. I’m an author. I’ve built a publishing company. Writing made sense. But the questions I can’t stop thinking about go deeper than writing. Why do we know what ma
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