Editing Tips on How to Stage Your Scene by Beth Barany
In this post, I cover editing tips on how to stage your scene for your novel. *** Q: When introducing a scene, how do you organically place three or more people in a scene?...
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How committed are you to your creative process? by Beth Barany
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...
Under An Orange Sky: The Expanding Paradigm by Beth Barany
This post is about the expanding paradigm. Our world is changing, there is no doubt about that. I acknowledge and bow to all the pain and suffering happening in the world. There is also...
A Creative Life: From Hustle to Ease… Is it possible?
Do you ever wonder if your to-do list is ever going to be done? Do you catch yourself saying, “Someday…” and then go right back to your daily hustle? If your answers are yes,...
Moving Through Hopelessness and Impossibility, 4 Things Before Breakfast by Beth Barany
This post is about: moving through hopelessness and impossibility in you writing, four things before breakfast. Beyond the hopelessness we may feel about what’s happening in the real world (and I feel it,) there...
Revise for Your Reader’s Experience by Beth Barany
This post is about principles on how to revise for your reader’s experience. I’m staring at my WIP—work in progress. It’s final edits time. Fish or cut bait. It’s time to make all those...
Favorite Inspiring Things of the Week by Beth Barany
Favorite Inspiring Things of the Week… Some of what I’ve loved… am loving… and recommend for your consideration: I’m still reading the Ava Lee series by Ian Hamilton — I’m on Book 9 now, The Couturier...
Procrastination is About Fear by Beth Barany
A reflective article on how procrastination is about fear from writing coach, Beth Barany. *** Picture This: There you are. You want to write, but something stops you. You turn away, do the dishes,...
Take A Stand: Art Can Change The World, But Not Just Art
Take A Stand: Art Can Change The World, But Not Just Art When I was a child I read late into the night and was driven to be a writer. I scribbled in artist...
Re-source From the Source of Creativity by Beth Barany
In this time of upheaval and potential for great change — for the better or worse is up to each of us –, I have some writing resources for you because through our art...
Your Writer Superpower
In these unprecedented times, where we have no idea when the “new normal” will arrive nor what it will look like, or even if it will arrive, we need to believe we are infinitely...
How to Nail Your Keywords, Categories and Metadata So Your Audience Finds Your Book, Interview with Beth Barany by Karen Ferreira
Learn how to nail your keywords, categories and metadata so your audience finds your book, in this interview I did with Karen Ferreira at her annual conference, Children’s Book Mastery.
Talk to Your Book, An Intuitive Approach
Recently, I attended an online talk about intuitive editing by Mark David Gerson, another writing coach, teacher, and author. I’d just come back from Saudi Arabia where I taught three workshops in three days...
Humans are infinitely resourceful by Beth Barany
I see people around me feeling hampered, feeling stuck, feeling like they’re in a prison. And now with lots of shelter in place orders, including where I live in the San Francisco Bay area,...
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