Every month, I host a FREE Answers and Encouragement for Writers Call on the third Thursday.

Here’s how the calls work:

1) You register by clicking here (easy peasey) and get a phone number and a pin.

2) You call at the appointed time–Thursday, Oct. 15, 5 p.m. PST.

3) I am there, brimming with ideas about your writing success. We talk. Feel stuck? Think that your problem may not even be able to be put into words, let alone cured? Talk to me. Seriously. I love this stuff.

4) You leave the call inspired, knowing your next step, excited to get back to your writing.

You can check out past calls–download ‘em as mp3s–under the FREE STUFF FOR WRITERS section on my site.

There are several reasons why these calls work to engender your success:

1) Just getting out of your head and putting your struggles before others moves you forward. You find that you are not alone. You hear some different approaches. You remember that writing, too, is a conversation.

2) Saying a goal or desire out loud is second only to writing it down. I just picked up a book my mom was reading (by those Chicken Soup guys, sure–but they have found a measure of success, a measure in the millions, if you want to count that way), and in the passage I read, they said, Think about a goal that you were crystal clear you wanted five years ago. Chances are, you have that today. And I thought, Five years ago, I knew I wanted to have kids, a family. Knew it. Would do almost anything to get it and wanted it more than anything else. And lo and behold! I’m overrun with two-year-olds. So pick up the phone and work some wanting-it-bad mojo on yourself.

3) I don’t have formulas. This is a creative art, folks, and the best way I can help you is to talk to you, suss out what thrills you and what moves you and help you get on and stay on the path toward that–and not on any other path. Not on my path, for example, which is where a lot of reader/ writers will accidentally guide you. It’s about clearing your path, clearing your vision.

Okay, I’ve posted some testimonials on my site, if you want to hear it from someone else.

Finally, I hear from some folks who don’t like telephone conferences, but I want to say that this is something else altogether. This is more like National Public Radio, like Michael Krazny’s Forum when people call in, say. Who doesn’t like listening to that?