Accessing Your Imagination Takes Courage - Part 1 Do you ever shrug off a spontaneous thought, idea, flight of fancy afraid your imagination is too "out there", crazy, impossible, laughable and audacious to pursue and instead settle for the predictable, the cliche, convention, the expected? Do you wish you had the courage in accessing your imagination to write something truly original, new, fresh, experimental and ingenious? In Part 1 of Accessing Your Imagination Takes Courage, I write about …
Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story through Action, Emotion & Theme
Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story through Action, Emotion & Theme Our new book Writing Deep Scenes is out and I'm eager to introduce you to each other! As I write this, I decide first on one section about plotting and action to highlight and then another section about emotion… or, perhaps I'll share some theme nuggets with you -- Writing Deep Scenes has so many helpful new ideas and examples and unique ways into your writing through action, emotion and theme that I'm having a hard …
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Alchemy in Writing and in Life
Alchemy in Writing and in Life In both of the two programs that make up the Beta-Membership: Writing a Story takes You on an Epic Journey, you've been learning about how alchemy works in writing and in life. In the 27-Step Tutorial: How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay?, you're changing and transforming the protagonist(s) of your story through the dramatic action of the story in a meaningful way. In Secrets of Personal Transformation: A Spiritual Guide, you're learning how to change and …
A Novel Idea How to Market Your Book
A Novel Idea How to Market Your Book A definition of marketing I found on the internet is: To make your product visible to everyone. Now, my novel marketing idea does not make your book visible to everyone. However, this one simple idea how to market your book does make potential buyers AND the staff of one bookstore very happy. My novel idea is to bring a cake to your book launch party. Not just any cake, mind you. Bring a large flat cake displaying the cover of your new book. I've done …
The Art of Collaboration: Joys and Pitfalls of Co-Authorship
The Art of Collaboration: Joys and Pitfalls of Co-Authorship Now that Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story through Action, Emotion & Theme is shipping (though the formal release date is not until October), I have a deep appreciation for the art of collaboration and co-authorship and am incredibly grateful to my co-author, Jordan Rosenfeld, author of several novels and books for writers. Joys, there were many. Pitfalls, miraculously there were none. Jordan and I met a couple of years …
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