Lisa Tener
Book Writing Coach
Lisa Tener’s Writing and Publishing Blog
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How Do You Make a Creative Environment?
Having worked with a handful of talented feng shui practitioners as clients, I’ve learned the importance of our surroundings in supporting our creativity. Working with them helped me realized I wanted to be more intentional about making my creative environment more inspiring to my muse. Until recently, I kept a bulletin board behind and above…
Be Accountable: A Key to Writing Consistently
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…
Get Your Book Writing & Publishing Questions Answered
Join us on Blog Talk Radio’s Positive Living Network as host Patricia Raskin asks me all about how to write a book, getting started, organizing your book, getting published, avoiding blocks, getting inspired, what publishers and agents are looking for, and anything else you might be wondering about: Wednesday June 3 Noon Eastern Time Blog…
Write Yourself Free
Last week, I opened my mail and received this beautiful gem of a book, Maureen Daigle-Weaver’s Write Yourself Free: Conscious living and Personal Peace through the Power of the Pen. Maureen wrote her first draft in my 60 day book writing teleseminar and I got to “test” the Write Yourself Free process and experience its…
How to Copyright a Book
Someone recently e-mailed me asking how he could copyright a book before it’s published. Technically, even in draft form, your book is copyrighted. Having their book stolen is one thing many novice writers worry about and yet it’s a rare occurrence. One of the best things you can do is not create a great deal…
Robin Kall, host of Reading with Robin Shares How Writing Transformed Her Life
In preparation for my presentation, Express Yourself in Writing and Transform Your Life, I’ve been asking some writer friends how writing has transformed their lives. Robin Kall has kept a journal since third grade. She says that she first thought that if she didn’t write every day she should just give up on the whole…
How Many Sample Pages for a Proposal…and Which Chapters?
A client recently asked me to help him with a book proposal with very short chapters. Hmmm. I hadn’t worked on one of those before. Would the usual 1-2 chapters be enough? It seemed to me that agents would want more of a sample. But how much? I asked literary agent Jeanne Fredericks for guidance….
Writing Your Book: From Stress to Success
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,…
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