Healthy Writers Club / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published January 26, 2013 · Last modified January 25, 2013
About weekly I share my Exercise Log to stay accountable to my commitment to my health and to the Healthy Writers Club, a collection of writers dedicated to health and movement started by author Shallee McArthur. In this log, I also reflect on my writing, creativity, and a creative life.
You know how to help your clients, and now you want to reach more potential clients through your writing online.
Who hasn’t had a delicate question that burned to be asked? Who hasn’t been ashamed to do so? For many years, Dear Abby was at the center of American consciousness and she fielded all sorts of questions—from etiquette to morality to good taste—that baffled us in this modern American world that was constantly changing, morphing, evolving.
Since signings are public appearances, they’re unpredictable. You never know what’s going to happen.
How often have you journeyed off to some exotic destination and brought along your notebook, expecting to record your observations in prose so eloquent and poetic that it would forever change the perceptions and very lives of your readers? Or you at least assumed that the wonder you felt would marginally translate itself to the page, all that majesty entering your words through osmosis?
In anticipation of book 2, I’m growing my author list, so am {gulp} requesting for support and help from my Writer’s Fun Zone friends and followers. (I tend to be very independent and not ask for help; I’m changing that!)
Would you like to have your sales numbers compiled for you, instead of checking Amazon, B&N, iBooks, etc. every day? Would you like your ratings, rankings, and reviews collected and saved for you, too? Would you like an email every morning with the highlights of your books’ previous day activities?
Each time you apply for admission to a competition or pitch an exhibition, you are effectively applying a “job.” Your résumé is a list of vital information about your art career designed to support your qualifications for a variety of purposes.
When authors work with me, some of their challenges surround how to help the sagging middle of their novel. That sagging middle is often due to not knowing their characters well enough. All good...
Creativity Tools and Tips / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published January 17, 2013 · Last modified January 18, 2013
This simple example is just to demonstrate how deep POV works. Of course, nothing is ever absolute, and deep POV can get much deeper than this when you’re working in your own scenes.
Welcome to the January 2013 issue of the Author Entrepreneurship Magazine! I created this magazine to help authors create
sustainable and successful careers. It is my gift to you! This month’s theme is New Technology for Author Entrepreneurs.
According to a slew of recent studies, even if you’re exercising when you’re not sitting, the act of sitting itself is physically damaging.
artist entrepreneur / Author Career / Author Entrepreneur / Events
by Beth Barany · Published January 14, 2013
I’m really excited to share with you a class one of my mentors is offering next week: FREE online Right-Brain Business Plan Course with CreativeLive. I’m taking her 6-month mentorship program and I love it! Scroll below to see my Big Vision vision board I created last week.
Inspired by Josh Clark’s article on the site, coolrunning.com, I’ve been doing a Couch-to-5K training since Oct 2012. About weekly I share my Exercise Log to stay accountable to my commitment to my health and...
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