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In a bit of a divergence from my customary marketing and publishing focus, here’s a poem I hope will inspire you:
your muse calls to you
across a great, rocky chasm
you look down
feel queasy
look across
but see no bridge
still
your muse calls
your heart stirs
yearns
pulls you
and
without thinking
you step forward
into thin air
and grow wings
Tags: Muse, poem, Writing Inspiration
One of my future book writing students (she’s registered for the May class) called to say she’s a bit stuck. Going through the preliminary material, she found herself feeling a bit hazy about her book, and conflicted about her goals:
Tags: create sacred space, inspiring office, sacred space, writing blocks
Last week in book writing class, management coach and HR consultant Carrie Beers shared how she found herself amidst intense turmoil at a time when she needed tranquility to foster her creative process. While having her home re-done, she’d temporarily “stored” boxes and piles everywhere, particularly in her office which seemed an uninviting place for [...]
Tags: book writing class, Carrie Beers, creativity, Lisa Tener, Writing in the Zone, Writing Inspiration, Writing workshops
This morning I asked my muse–my inner creative being–how he wanted me to start my day. He suggested a walk along Newport’s Cliff Walk. Even before I got there, as I drove across the Narragansett Bay, along the Newport Bridge, I received clarity about a client’s project. Seems I ‘d been approaching it from the [...]
Tags: business creativity, business creativity nature, Cheryl Richardson, cliff walk, Hay House, nature and creativity, nature and writing, newport, schedule time in nature, walk in nature
My private clients and book-writing students often ask me if there’s a best time to write. Yes, there often is, but that perfect time varies from person to person. If you want to find out the best time for you, try early morning, mid morning, mid-afternoon and evening. See which seems to be your most [...]
Tags: creative time of day, waking up to write, when to write, writing at night, writing challenges, writing in the morning, writing problems
What to do when your writing loses momentum? Trap yourself.
If you’re not accountable to anyone to get your writing done, it’s easy to get off track. Often, all it takes is being accountable to someone to get back in the game and write again.
Teaching a class has been great for me. Every week my book-writing [...]
Tags: momentum, time management, writing blog, writing circle, writing class, writing coach, Writing Course
Today’s post is interview style: I’m here with Laura Gwen, an inspirational speaker and an authority on universal laws, including the law of attraction. Laura is kicking off Aspire Media’s Inspiring Speaker Series with her talk April 15: Stress is Optional: Success is a Choice, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, RI.
Of course, I [...]
Tags: Aspire Magazine, Aspire Media, feeling stress, Laura Gwen, law of attraction, scheduling the day, segment intending, starting the day, stress, success, unconscious thoughts, Unity Center of Light, universal law, writing a book
I just got off the phone with Patricia Raskin. We were planning my monthly spotlight appearances on her show Positive Living which you can hear Sundays from 12-2 on WPRO Providence (99.7 FM, 630 AM or live streamed). We have six fun and informative 7-minute interviews planned:
March 8: Join the internet revolution and [...]
Tags: Aspire Magazine, be a better writer, beat writer's block, become a published author, editing tips, how to get published, Inspiring Women Speaker Series, Patricia Raskin, Positive Living, Positive Living Radio, Writer's Block, Writing in the Zone, writing online, writing radio
Guest Blog by Daniel Tomasulo, author of Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist’s Memoir
My first popular press book came out earlier this year. Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist’s Memoir was published by Graywolf in May and was well received.
In the six months since it has been released I have received a number [...]
Tags: addiction, author reading, Autobiography of a Face, book reading, confessions, confessions of a former child, Dani Shapiro, Daniel Tomasulo, funny memoir, Greenwich Village, Hard to write, heroin overdose, humorous memoir, Kettle of Fish, Lucy Grealy, memoir, New School in NYC, Oprah pick, painful memoir, painful to write, Princeton, Slow Motion, therapist memoir, therapist's memoir
Many writers find it challenging to sit down and write at will. They might schedule the time in their calendar to write, but when the time comes, they suddenly notice the grimy buildup inside the stove (time for some steel wool) or they head to the fridge to fix themselves a snack–anything to avoid writing.
It [...]
Tags: a gentleman's agreement, blockbuster, book sales, Charles Dickens, Cosmopolitan, Donna Montalbano, fans, house on benefit street, procrastination, Providence, sequel, serializing, Stephen King, wickendon street
