Story and Subtext – David Baboulene
This week I’m interrupting my story of my perspective shift to announce that David Baboulene will be joining me at HearWriteNow on the 29th March on a stop of his blog book tour for The Story Book: A Writer’s Guide to Story Development, Principles, Problem Solving, and Marketing. If I had been writing blog posts […]
Buffett the Wealthy Vampire Slayer
On to Part 2 of the lightbulb moment caused by Eben Pagan’s video launch of his Self-Made Wealth course. In the second and third video Eben Pagan spoke about a man I’m sure you’ve heard of: Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett takes so much care with his wealth that he doesn’t look at the dollar price […]
Money for Nothing, Wealth for Free
In my last post I spoke about how Sonia Simone’s perspective on focus highlighted my multiple thumbs-in-pies malady. I didn’t always lack focus; in fact my training novel and second novel were completed with a great deal of self-discipline, including, as I’ve mentioned previously, giving up reading fiction for a year. I’ll come back to […]
I’m Just Kiddo-ing
Last week I mentioned an accumulation of ideas that has brought about a massive shift in my perspective. I’ll start with the idea that I came across two years ago that really put all this into motion. I found that idea in a blog post by Sonia Simone of Remarkable Communication and CopyBlogger. That post […]
Interesting Start to the Year
Sorry I’ve been quiet for so long. The last half of last year was whisked away with the Charter Class of my Word 4 Writers Course. Since I was writing the modules (for both version 2007 and version 2010) at the same pace that my students were taking the class, it was an incredibly intensive […]
Reading While You Write
Selma is conducting a poll of writers: Do you read? How often and how much? What are you reading right now? Do you read while you’re writing? Selma says: I had a conversation with a friend of mine who teaches a creative writing course at the local university about writers and reading. She says that […]
House Works
I’ve been fascinated by the character Gregory House (from the TV show House, M.D.) for a while now. Can he be called an “anti-hero”? Perhaps the term should be “anti-protagonist”? Or perhaps it is heroic, story-wise, to wrap one’s brain through medical mysteries and save the patient in the nick of time, even if it […]
Show Me Who You Are
***The following contains spoilers for the Australian television movie Little Oberon.*** Here is an example from a movie (Little Oberon) of showing the audience key elements of the story instead of telling them. (“Show, don’t tell. Show, don’t tell”: something my writing teachers always drummed into my head.) It’s much easier to show in a […]
Romance for the Aged
I can handle small doses of horror in book form (not movies), but what I really can’t stomach is romance. Take that as a disclaimer. I avoid romance and romance blend genres, including Fantasy-Romance, as much as possible, so I haven’t read the books that contain the concept that I feel like griping about today. […]
Revise Your Novel in One Week
There is now a “lite” version of the “How to Revise Your Novel” Workshop available for only $5. This is a complete revision programme; not a teaser. It was created by an author who was offered an opportunity to submit her novel to fit an unexpected open slot in a publisher’s line-up… with the catch […]