Archive for September, 2008

I’ll be speaking at the 1st Annual Creativity Conference, October 4-5, 2008, Lake George, New York. My topic will be:
Title: A Creative in Business: You as the Hero on This Journey
Description: Start from where you are. This first stage of the hero’s journey, as inspired by Carl Jung and by Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a [...]

Excerpted from Overcome Writer’s Block by Beth Barany
The Garden Within
Who you are as a writer has grown from your lived experiences, your passions and your frictions, your soil. Your fertilizer, your weed pulling, your garden. Your writing won’t be like anyone else’s nor will your career, nor will your daily routine. This may appear [...]

Adapt these affirmations as you’d like. I wrote them to work that subconscious layer of my being that doesn’t believe in what I’m doing. I offer them to you in the hopes that you will find inspiration, deepen your motivation, and rise to new levels of your creative writing practice.

I am a writer.
I have permission [...]

Writing Tips: Choice Begins with You
To write or not to write, that is the question. Here, the pen is mightier than the sword. I went to sleep last night thinking about choice, and woke up inspired.
What became so clear to me as I woke up was that it was entirely up to me, to write [...]

The best and quickest way to start writing is to give yourself permission to write a shitty first draft. This great piece of advice was garnered from Anne Lamott’s book on writing and the writing life, Bird by Bird. So you want to write that article, blog post, or chapter?
First, give yourself permission to write [...]

140 characters. That’s it. No more. No less.
Why? It’s fun, it’s short, and you can write some interesting stuff in 140 characters.
To learn more about Twitter.com, check out these resources:
NY Times article, Sept. 7, 2008: “How Twitter can help at work”
Dani at Blog Book Tours has a nice bit on how to use Twitter [...]

Your Mindset is Everything
What to Do About Fear and Negativity

Many teachings, like The Secret, and others, talk about having a positive mindset, visualizing your success and focusing on your goal. You know what kind of book you want to write, right? If not, do the GMC exercise, posted here.
While that’s all well and good, [...]

The Secret (& Science) to
Getting Your Book Published Online Class

Find out in this free class by Nancy Cleary, owner of Wyatt-Macenzkie, a small press in the Pacific Northwest.

Destiny at Your Fingertips: Discover the Inner Purpose of Your Life and What It Take to Live It by Ronelle Coburn

“Living Your Life Purpose—The Freedom to Choose It of Refuse It
Destiny, Free Will, and Choice

Though your Life Purpose was carved into your hands in the form of fingerprints, fully formed just sixteen weeks [...]