The Story Book – David Baboulene – Partial Review
I’ve not yet finished reading The Story Book, but wanted to post my thoughts before David’s stop here on Tuesday. The Story Book is definitely one I’m pleased to add to my writer’s bookshelf and a book I’m sure I will refer to many times while I’m editing my books. David begins with an explanation […]
Colonel Riley in the Library with the Silver Spoon
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.” D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) With all my discussion of my lack of focus, lack of time, and lack of self-discipline, I thought I should pause for a moment to qualify […]
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 […]
Exclusive Interview – Blogging for Writers
I was recently lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview Lynette Chandler of Blog Energizer as part of a contest she’s running to promote her site. Blog Energizer scours the Internet for ideas for bloggers to write about, but Lynette is also involved in the technical side of blogging with plugins and membership site […]
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 […]
Does Compute… Sometimes
The past few months I’ve been flat out getting Word 4 Writers ready for re-launch and updated to Word version 2010. I’m really pleased that it is all coming together again. Ironically, it was Word itself that almost made me give up on Word 4 Writers. Word does not do graphics well. Including more than […]