Want to really accelerate AND sustain your writing success? Listen up. In order to be a successful and effective communicator, you’ve GOT to be a highly effective listener. As a leader, LISTENING skills are MORE IMPORTANT than your speaking or writing skills …. No question 1. Quiet your mind and make a space for you [...]
There are so many places looking for someone to write something for them. Schools, local charities, theaters to name a few. Online magazines, newsletters and special reports. Writing short paragraphs will also allow you to make money again while you are practicing. Do you have 5 minutes? Most businesses could use a hand with writing [...]
The air is cooler the light is golden school has started time for Fall wonderful memories waiting to be created and remembered Time to get your writing instruments ready to go and start recording all of the happenings around you. There are so many things going on that it would be very difficult not to [...]
Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that “Man’s mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension”. My hope is that your mind will be stretched by the ideas of this site and you will reach your potential to become a writer. It takes action, so it is important to get started and [...]
Capture first, edit later. If you spend ages in the pre-planning and trying to set up perfect conditions before your start a writing project, it’s less and less likely you will be able to create freely and without over thinking everything. Over thinking will get you into all of those old patterns of who do [...]
I recently went for a walk in the new area where I live to see some of the sights that were near my new home. Coming to a field of grass and clover, I had a flashback to lying in a field next to my childhood home. It was a beautiful summer day and I [...]
It has been a great week- but it reminded me how fragile we are as humans – and how even if all we aspire to is comfort and happiness, our minds try to protect us and move us back to that comfort zone whenever we try to move outside of the zone where it feels [...]
Everyone that I speak to has a desire to write a book. When I ask them what they will write about I usually get I don’t know, I just feel like I should write a book. If you are in the same place, I have several suggestions for you to help you get started as [...]
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes…but no plans.” Peter F Drucker If you are talking about writing that book you feel is inside you but have not made a commitment to getting started you are just talking. It is time to get started. You have many tools in the resource area [...]
This is a sample of one of the exercises to help you find the type of writing you like ex: do you like drama, comedy and/or another type. You can find more exercises to help you at http://www.freecreativewritingstrategies.com in determining your favorite writing type and how to become more creative doing that type of writing. [...]