Recipe for Success: How to Reconnect With Your Writing
Have you lost your way with your writing and don’t know how to forge ahead? If so, this is a good time to step back, hold on to your courage and re-imagine your current...
Writer's Fun Zone by Beth Barany
Resistance is Powerful
is also experienced by most artists and can be overcome. Some people call Resistance: writer’s block or procrastination. Steven Pressfield names Resistance the heart of everything and anything that stops us from creating. His...
Inspiration for Writing: Geography
My spirit is uplifted by grand buildings. I hear the whisperings of times past. Stories seep out of the old stone, echoes of footsteps remind me of people I have never met and never...
Girlfriend Writing Contest: Ends Soon!
Enter SMW’s Great Girlfriend Getaway Essay Contest!
You tell your friends your dreams and goals. With them, you relay your greatest fears, and cry your bitterest tears.
Read, Read and Read Some More
When people tell me they want to be a writer, one of the first things I ask is “What do you read?” Why is reading so important? Readers wash their minds and hearts with...
Write in the Now
happens in the NOW, not in the past, not in the future, not in your head, not in conversation, and not in your dreams. From all those places — the past, the future, your...
Sleep is Good for Creativity
According to a recent New York Times article, we’re able to approach problems with a renewed perspective after some sleep. Yeah! I’m so glad that science is catching up to what artists have always...
The Writer’s Adventure Guide
I am excited to give you a sneak peek of my upcoming e-course, The Writer’s Adventure Guide. Check out your FREE report here: http://www.writersadventureguide.com. The course will be launching soon!
A Creative in Business: You as the Hero on This Journey
I’ll be speaking at the 1st Annual Creativity Conference, October 4-5, 2008, Lake George, New York. My topic will be: Title: A Creative in Business: You as the Hero on This Journey
Description: Start from where you are.
Organic Writing
Excerpted from Overcome Writer’s Block by Beth Barany The Garden Within Who you are as a writer has grown from your lived experiences, your passions and your frictions, your soil. Your fertilizer, your weed...
Affirmations for Writers
Adapt these affirmations as you’d like. I wrote them to work that subconscious layer of my being that doesn’t believe in what I’m doing. I offer them to you in the hopes that you...
The Choice Begins with You
Writing Tips: Choice Begins with You To write or not to write, that is the question. Here, the pen is mightier than the sword. I went to sleep last night thinking about choice, and...
Write a Sh*^@tty First Draft Fast
The best and quickest way to start writing is to give yourself permission to write a shitty first draft. This great piece of advice was garnered from Anne Lamott’s book on writing and the...
Write Short, Write on Twitter.com
140 characters. That’s it. No more. No less. Why? It’s fun, it’s short, and you can write some interesting stuff in 140 characters. To learn more about Twitter.com, check out these resources: NY Times...
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