Permission to Plan: Secrets to Writing a Second Draft
By what combination of thinking and doing did you learn to ride a bike?
FREE Third Thursdays Call: Answers and Encouragement for Writers
29 June 2009
Register now for the JULY 23rd call, click here. (Please note: this is actually the 4th Thursday in July.) Click here to listen to July's free call.
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Day Five: Finding a Way
05 June 2009
Can dreaming help the writer?
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More Turtles: Day One
01 June 2009
"More turtle," said Leo. "More turtle," Charlie echoed.
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Brain Dump: a one-week challenge
27 May 2009
This is another tool, a way to build on your writing habits, to gain forward momentum. CLICK ON IMAGE FOR FULL POST.
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En Maass: Writing the Breakout Novel
23 May 2009
How many people follow you on Twitter, who you are Facebook friends with, and whether or not your cousin works for Oprah will do nothing for you if you do not have a great book.
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Master Class on the Mystery and Report on the Kick-off Face Book Event
17 April 2009
Last night’s Face Books Tour event at Orinda Books went off splendidly. The room was packed and many people left with raffle tickets, having purchased the wonderful books our readers wrote. The theme of the reading was The Power of Story, addressed from many angles by the fiction and non-fiction writers who presented. Next event is the [...]
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70th Post: Confessions of a Writing Entrepreneur Mom
04 April 2009
Because besides the amazing sentences my boys utter and the laughs they earn and the hugs they give, there are also endless meals to cook, surfaces to wipe down (counters and bottoms and floors) and dishes to clean and toys to pick up off the floor--again--and laundry to do and baths to be given and hair to be washed and no one likes to brush teeth, it turns out . . .
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Market-forces and Art: Prelude to a Business Plan for Writers
22 March 2009
Why should the writer, who must daily summon the courage to dredge her soul--and that of her neighbors--also worry about marketability, profitability, and spreading the word about a product so worthy as the book?
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Good News from Europe for Books and Those Who Love Them
17 March 2009
The New York Times published an article about how sales of books are up in France and Europe in general. Two favorite quotes: “It’s a happy message,” said André Breedt, research and development analyst at Nielsen BookScan, which tracks book sales. “People have been reading and they will keep reading, no matter what happens.” “Books are a very [...]
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Winners and a Writing Tip on Time
16 March 2009
This was the strangest giveaway. Last time, I had to pick from a hat and turn away tons of people who didn’t get picked. I hated that, or so I thought. This time, I can award spots in the course to all three of my commentators–and I know (from my tracking) that a bunch of [...]
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