This week’s featured article is from my editorial assistant and creative entrepreneur trainee, Jasper Ezekiel. Jasper is a poet and fantasy novelist. Why have I been sharing articles about getting ready for NaNoWriMo? We...
Permission to be Creative with Nina Hart, Part 2 – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 60 “Because I think like so many of us need to unlearn things. And also the process...
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by Kerry-Ann McDade · Published March 6, 2023 · Last modified March 21, 2024
In “Change Your Book Marketing Mindset, Interview with Susie deVille, Part 1,” host Beth Barany, creativity coach, and science fiction and fantasy novelist, chats with Susie in this new mini-series where they discuss her...
by Beth Barany · Published May 31, 2022 · Last modified June 2, 2022
REHEARSAL:YOU’RE INVITED TO PLAY WITH US AS WE PRACTICEMy co-teacher, Shannon Borg, and I are rehearsing our material for our course in Saudi Arabia (full course description) in a few weeks.Two dates to chose...
by Beth Barany · Published September 17, 2020 · Last modified September 24, 2020
How committed are you to your creative process? A question I ask in this post for creative writers. *** I thought today I’d share about why I write to you every week. I started...
Please welcome Mary Smathers to our Featured Q&A series at Writer’s Fun Zone. Enjoy!
by Beth Barany · Published May 12, 2020
Overcome Writer’s Block: A Self-Guided Creative Writing Class to Get You Writing Again Written by a writer and teacher with over 30 years of experience. Available here: https://books2read.com/overcomewritersblock **This book is written for you...
A writer’s podcast is a great way to stay abreast of industry changes and trends in writing, publishing, and marketing. Scifi romance author Keri Kruspe shares with us her favorite writer’s podcasts and new ones to investigate.
Let’s welcome back monthly columnist Nevada McPherson as she shares with us “Now Boarding!” Enjoy!
Should versus What? The Risk of Living a Creative Life. We are social creatures and learn how to be so by copying our parents and then later our peers.
Over the years, and actually starting quite young, we develop a sense of the “rules” of our family culture, then our wider culture.
If you want to have a career of any kind of a writer (a part-time or full-time income), then you may be on the lookout for more strategies to inspire you to take action....
Focus is a big part of living a creative life and getting our work done. New Scientist has an interesting article on the topic of focusing to get our work done: “7 ways to...
Do you remember Sister Maria from The Sound of Music? She sang a little song about having confidence before she plunged into the world of Captain Von Trapp and his seven motherless children. As she sang, she acknowledged her doubts and fears, but she didn’t chicken out or turn back.
by Beth Barany · Published November 11, 2015 · Last modified April 27, 2016
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