How to Transform from “Starving Artist” to Confident Writer by Kirsten McNeill
Transform yourself from “starving artist” to confident writer with these tips on changing your mindset and habits from Kirsten McNeill.
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The Creative Process: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends
The Creative Process: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends – How To Write the Future episode 56 “Find your audience and announce your creation to the world. Let your light shine. Enlighten us with your beauty,...
Being A Writer: What I Wish I’d Known by Sue Brown-Moore
Find out what the author thinks, “what I wish I had known” for advice on being a writer who respects her own time, drive, and desires.
The Key To Creative Success: The 3-Legged Stool: Getting The Support You Need
In this How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled “The Key To Creative Success: The Three Legged-Stool: Getting the Support You Need,” Beth Barany shares her perspective about the key to creative success and invites...
Change of Plan: Revising Your Story as You Go by Nevada McPherson
Making changes to your story, while you’re writing it, can seem overwhelming and frustrating unless you’re prepared for them.
Facing Rejection and Asking Yourself: Are You Ready For the Yes? by Lisa Towles
When an author submits work to a publisher it’s important to prepare for acceptance, even as they strengthen themselves for rejection.
The Restless Artist: The Inventor by Catharine Bramkamp
The restless artist is an inventor, happiest when she is creating the next great thing, so how can she become a success this way? Learn more from Catharine Bramkamp, author of Writing from the Queen’s Seat: Discover and Write From Your Authentic Authority.
Breaking the Rules by Catharine Bramkamp
In these rule breaking times, we need a different approach to how we drag our books across the finish line. As artists, writers can approach our books with the same spirit as artists who create public art. Because a book IS public art.
Revise Your Way to Success by Kay Keppler
You need an editor to make your writing shine, and the first red pen that touches your draft should be your own. Learn how to revise, and especially, learn how to delete. Read Strunk & White’s Elements of Style or some other book that shows you how to strip verbiage, and then apply what you’ve learned to your manuscript.
7 Keys to Author Success for Novelists with Beth Barany
In my weekly live #askaWritingCoach chat this week, I shared 7 keys to author success for novelists, and answered questions. I offered up two digital gifts this week — A Cupcake Christmas (Touchstone #5) and Twitter...
A Recipe for Writing and Personal Success By Carol Malone
Happy New Year! Time for resolutions and goal setting. Time for me to freak out. I’ve always hated the words goal and resolution. Oh, I had them – the same every year: lose weight, save money, get out of debt. But I never thought about the plans, the schedules, the hard work it took to achieve those goals, so I bailed and failed and told myself that it was better not to have goals so I could save myself from anxiety and disappointment.
Winners Keep Score by Beth Barany
The Prize As a writer, the prize is our finished book. That’s how we are winners. Winning also means publishing our books and getting readers. Congratulations for showing up for yourself, your creativity, and...
The 10 Steps to Becoming a Successful Indie Author
You want it, don’t you?! I mean success as an author! What does that mean to you? To me, it means fame, fortune and giving my readers a satisfying and memorable experience that they want more of!
VIDEO: Overcoming Arts True Test: Discipline
Enjoy our weekly video in our Sunday Videos for Authors series. While artists are known for following whims and dodging routine, the Irish painter Guggi insists that hard-work, structure, and a refusal to put down even the most frustrating piece, are the keys to developing ones talent.
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