Archive for the ‘Book Excerpts’ Category

You have Four Super Powers:
1. Knowing Your Goals
2. Knowing Your Motivations
3. Being Clear on Your Challenges
4. Harnessing your Strengths.
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You want to create a page turner. You want your readers up late at night, reading. You want them to say to their significant other when called to bed, “Just one more page!”
How do you do that?
Literary agent and writing instructor extraordinaire, Donald Maass, tells us in his latest book, The Fire in Fiction.

“Holding readers’ [...]

This week the book is still The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass. And this week it’s about voice.

Welcome back to Excerpt Thursday, where I quote from a book I’m reading. Currently, I’m still savoring Donald Maass’ Fire in Fiction.

Writers, what are you reading that inspires you? What are you reading that inspires your writing? I’m still reading The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass. And today is Excerpt Thursday, so here goes.

We’re once again at Except Thursday. I just decided that today I would excerpt again from Donald Maass’ The Fire In Fiction, the book I’m currently reading. Why? I’m inspired by Maass’ book. Reading it makes me want to work on my novel. I hope it can inspire you too to work on your novel.

 is also experienced by most artists and can be overcome. Some people call Resistance: writer’s block or procrastination. Steven Pressfield names Resistance the heart of everything and anything that stops us from creating. His little book, 165 pages and change, called The War of Art: Break Through the Block and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, will [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Archetypes for Writers: Using the Power of Your Subconscious
by Jennifer Van Bergen
An excerpt:
“Ultimately the Self makes a place in the world for its whole Self where one did not exist before. This is the great work of the artist. It is monumental. It is not just about writing a book, which is a large enough [...]