The first draft of everything is shit. ~Ernest Hemmingway First-time writers struggle the most with first drafts. That’s because they often compare their first draft …
First-Time Writers’ Misconceptions
Coaching
Your Life is Your Legacy
“A memoir is a roadmap of what made you who you are today.” ~JB Your Life is Your Legacy At a meeting of a group called …
5 Key Points for Writing A Book.
5 Key Points for Writing a Book “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do …
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. ~ Henry David Thoreau. Memoir or …
Writing – A Tool for Transformation
Writing is not just for those who consider themselves “writers.” It is just as much a transformational tool as it is a craft for creative …
Best Advice for Writers
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.~ John Steinbeck Best Advice for …
Good Writing Habits Support Inspiration
First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain youwhether you’re inspired or not.Habit is persistence in practice.~ Octavia Butler Good Writing Habits Support Inspiration Inspiration …
Enjoy Being a Bad Writer
Enjoy Being a Bad Writer You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly. If you accept bad writing as a way of priming …
Mindfulness and Writing
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience. ~Jon Kabat-Zinn At times like we are in now, challenging, to say the least, we are given …
What’s the Best Length for Sentences, Paragraphs & Chapters?
What’s the Best Length for Sentences, Paragraphs, and Chapters?Sentences: Before the days of television, radio and the Internet, the guidelines were no more than 23 …