What is self-publishing really? And is it the right choice for us as writers? I had these questions too, and have done much research, and more importantly have taken the plunge. I am the...
It’s another video in our Sunday Video for Authors series. If you have a video that you love re: writing, creativity, etc., I’d love to know about it. I’m learning to love video and...
Many authors turn to words for sustenance, and to feed their imaginative self. But they sometimes neglect to feed the part of themselves that nurtures their image making ability: visual art.
I am a young adult fantasy writer. My debut novel, Henrietta, the Dragon Slayer, will be released this spring! Yesterday I was making a list of all the things I thought my readers of...
by Beth Barany · Published January 23, 2011 · Last modified September 7, 2014
It’s another video in our Sunday Video for Authors series. If you have a video that you love re: writing, creativity, etc., I’d love to know about it. I’m learning to love video and...
by Beth Barany · Published January 22, 2011 · Last modified November 28, 2025
As a writer, I’ve often shunned creativity prompts. Why do I need them? I am so creative; I can sit down and just write. Ah! But it wasn’t always this way.
Welcome to a new Wednesday series about fairy tales, fantasy and other topics that inspire me as a fiction author. To relax and get inspired, I like to read fairy tales. Modern, old, new,...
I don’t have much to say right now. I’m feeling like the Hermit. Walking into a dark cave. Guided only by the light of my heart, mind and soul. Searching for answers only I...
by Beth Barany · Published January 7, 2011 · Last modified October 18, 2013
Authenticity. Be myself — everyone else is taken. Vulnerability is my strength. Words to live by. Words to feel. Words to fight. Conflict. External conflict. I’m not great at external conflict in my novels...
I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t feel the year has really started yet. 2010 isn’t quite finished and 2011 has yet come. A no man’s land of time, where work needs...
by Beth Barany · Published January 5, 2011 · Last modified January 4, 2011
IN PRAISE OF THE EXUBERANT And as you stand there Sunshining all over our Rain Parade Voice cheering Toes tapping Eyes dancing Let us now praise you. You, the mango-coconut in our vanilla world....
Can you have a three-minute love affair with yourself through your writing? What do you do when you’re stuck with your writing? I don’t know about you guys but I encounter stuckness all the...
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by Beth Barany · Published October 11, 2010
In a recent conversation with fellow creative coach and business woman, Quinn MacDonald, she mentioned to me about the bus factor. I said, “The what?” “You know, in case you get hit by a...
In which I reveal my inner dialogue between my Inner Critic and me, the part of me that would like the Inner Critic to STOP yelling. Thank you. My inner critic is SO strong…...
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