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Building a story? It’s like laying beautiful stones

(photo credit) If you visit this blog at all you know I’ve been absent for a while. I took several weeks off from blogging to turn my attention to creating something totally different ā€“...

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Work

Hitting the bottom of the inspirational well

There are times when the well of creativity seems to dry up and, as hard as you try, you donā€™t know how to get it all kick started again. You search for advice on...

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Work / Writing Tips

25 things writers should stop doing

Today as I was jotting down thoughts for a New Year’s blog about some of the things we writers (me especially!) need to stop doing this year, and other things we might start trying...

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Work / Writing Tips

Reverb 10: Turning ideas into actuality

“We think good ideas to death, when we should be acting them to life.” ~ Brian G. Jett “A new idea is like a child. It’s easier to conceive than to deliver.” ~ Ted...

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“Write drunk, edit sober” ~ Ernest Hemingway

  “Write drunk, edit sober.” ~ Ernest Hemingway One of the biggest challenges facing a lot of writers including myself is to ā€œlet it all hang outā€ as we are writing. In fact, as...

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Book Publishing / Work

Ghostwriting – not as scary as it seems

With Halloween just around the corner, it seems to me that Ghostwriting might be just the thing to blog about this week, especially since I recently completed ghostwriting a book on nutrition and sports...

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Do you make time to write?

How often does our writing take the back seat to other pressing needs in our lives? Of late, Iā€™ve noticed that Iā€™ve had a bit of a struggle getting to my writing because of...

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Work / Writing Tips

The Magic of Journaling

Ā  “The habit of writing for my eye only is good practice, It loosens the ligaments.” Ā ~ Virginia Woolf  Not only does journaling loosen the ligaments, but it also loosens the brain cells, the...

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Inspire / Work / Writing Tips

25 quotes to inspire the writer in you

Writing can be difficult business. It is usually a solitary endeavor that requires us to pull our creative energy from our own mind, heart and spirit. There have been times when I have sat...

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10 things for freelance writers to ponder

  In 2005, I left the world of regular paychecks, corner offices and difficult bosses to become my own boss. I opened my own public relations agency and at the same time began taking...