Your Post Holiday Journal by Catharine Bramkamp
In the New Year, now is a good time to take a post holiday review. Pull out your journal and use these questions as prompts, by novelist and writing teacher, Catharine Bramkamp.
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How to Use Your Journal to Help Write Your Novel by Catharine Bramkamp
Most writers journal because when it comes to writing, we are all in. We work on our novels while waiting for the traffic light to change. We keep journals handy by our beds. What else can journaling do?
What Would You Do if You Did Fail? by Catharine Bramkamp
She experimented with the coaching cliche: what would you do if you could not fail? Then discovered what happened when she did fail.
No, not my Binky! by Catharine Bramkamp
If you are a Millennial and certainly if you are a Digital Native, you have never known life without cell phones. An afternoon without our phones can seem like a night without your binky.
Shrapnel from the War on Art by Catharine Bramkamp
Social media feels less like a free-for-all democracy and more like trench warfare. You must have noticed — the war has escalated, and the soldiers, excuse me, artists, are sacrificed daily in a war of attrition.
How to Game Difficult Tasks by Catharine Bramkamp
One of the more difficult tasks for writers is managing the boring bits: editing, especially editing that third draft, oh and copy editing, line editing, and well, any editing.
Deep Reading: Books Are Our Friends by Catharine Bramkamp
We, as writers and artists, need to return to reading material that requires a bit more effort than watching cute cat videos. Okay, a lot more effort. Why? I’ll tell you…
Why Disappointing Books Are Still Helpful by Catharine Bramkamp
Why Disappointing Books Are Still Helpful. I was intrigued by the promise of a newly released book on starting a new career at sixty. But I was disappointed.
How to Escape Newsletter Hell by Catharine Bramkamp
Was this you? At seven, did you say, When I grow up I want to write and produce a popular newsletter with over 10,000 contacts that I work to scrub weekly.
Talk to the Dead by Catharine Bramkamp
There are many want to communicate with the dead: Ouija Boards, Mediums, Clairvoyants, Automatic Writing. Much easier and far more expedient is to journal.
Master This Building Block of All Stories: Scenes
Scenes are the heart of novels. There are so many different types of scenes, and so many ways you can write a scene. So how do you decide? Is there a method that works?...
What’s Your Story? By Catharine Bramkamp
Remember the sixties mantra, “What’s your story? (man)”? It resonated because your story was important, it reflected who you were and who you wanted to be.
Show Your Work by Catharine Bramkamp
Let’s welcome back monthly columnist Catharine Bramkamp as she shares with us “Show Your Work. For many people creating a story, your own or a client’s is like recording a geometry theorem.
This Year Get Lost by Catharine Bramkamp
Today it’s called deep reading since getting lost is no longer allowed. But getting lost in a book is still a good description. This Year – Get Lost
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