Tagged: Beth Barany

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5 Tips to Get Writing Now

Last October 2009, Cheryl Liquori and I got video taped for GuruTube.net. I had a great time! I have to admit, though, I was nervous. I was going to have a video clip on the same site as Guy Kawasaki and MC Hammer! (Our videos will be posted in a few weeks.)

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Start Your Book: Call to Adventure

Every adventure starts with preparation. I covered that step, Stage 1: Start From Where You Are, here. Today, let’s look at the next step, your first step into writign your book, Stage 2, Call to Adventure. Every book starts with a word. What is your WORD? Your passion? Your compelling message?

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Why I Write: Dialogue With Self

I write to know I exist. I write therefore I am. I write to dialogue with myself. I write to integrate the parts within. Writing in my journal is like reporting in from all sides.

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Are you writing a book or telling a story?

Do you you want to write a book, or do you want to tell a story? Each one of these is a different motivating force. Each one not better or worse than the other. Know what motivates you. What motivates you? Having a message or creating a book?

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Using Twitter to Network and Market Your Books

In addition to a website, newsletter, and a blog, authors can use social networking tools to connect with friends, make new friends, interact with readers, and gain new readers. In my previous Promotion Posse article (”Heart of the Bay,” January 2009), I wrote about how authors can use Facebook to network and market.

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Write What You Know, Teach What You Know

Writing is a form of teaching. I’m a teacher who loves to write. I’m a writer who loves to teach. Which am I? Both. Quantum entanglement, my husband, the high school physics teacher, would say.

Prepare to Write: Your Ritual of Preparation 0

Prepare to Write: Your Ritual of Preparation

Fall is a great time to think about and put in place new rituals for your creative writing.
Why are rituals an important part of our creative practices?
Twyla Tharp, in The Creative Habit: Use it and Learn it for Life, speaks of the power of the “ritual of preparation.”

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You are a Well-Spring of Creativity: Part 1

The act of writing generates ideas, emotions, thoughts, feelings and images that tug at your heart and rouse you to laugh, cry, shout, or sing. And to vision. Though you may not know why...

The Writer’s GMC: Know What You Want by Beth Barany 0

The Writer’s GMC: Know What You Want

You have a dream! You want to write a book. Congratulations! So now what? How do you go from great idea to great reality? With The Writer’s GMC, that’s how. Answer the questions below...

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