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“Why do I need to know everything about my character?” my client asked. “You don’t need to know everything. Just the important bits!” I said. Let me explain… The other day I was in...
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by Beth Barany · Published October 8, 2020 · Last modified October 14, 2020
Recently I finalized a novel and uploaded it to the vendors. Hurrah! Lured By Light goes live Oct. 17th, though it’s already up in print here and in ebook on Apple. (Oops!) I found...
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?...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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… 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...
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 When I was a child I read late into the night and was driven to be a writer. I scribbled in artist...
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...
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...
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