Writing Practice Prescription

Sam Horn posts this tip in a current issue of SpeakerNet News:
Tips for making the most out of Book Expo — Sam Horn

Are you going to Book Expo in Los Angeles this weekend (www.BookExpoAmerica.com) — the largest gathering of publishing industry professionals in the country? Want to know how to make the most of your [...]

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As a writer, you have already learned about the benefits of writing. You may have even have discovered that writing your work is only step one. The next task is to sell your work if you want to share your work with the world. Towards this end, I joined the National Speakers Association [...]

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by
Juliet Platt
Last year, with the kids home for summer I resigned myself to the fact that I wasn’t going to have much time for writing or research. Not wishing to feel like the weeks were slipping by unproductively, I needed to look to other sources to keep my creative imagination alive.
While the kids watched [...]

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The 2008 Writers Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers just arrived in my mailbox. I look forward to this list each year and find that I have some favorites that I follow, such as C. Hope Clark’s Funds for Writers. Having exchanged some emails with Hope in the past (she is a neat lady), I [...]

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When thinking about our current state of health care, I am reminded of a joke that one of my medical school classmates used to tell: “There was a little girl; who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead; and when she was good, she was very, very good; and when she [...]

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My mantra of recent times has been, “Why pop a pill when you can get better with pen and paper?” Not always, of course, but often. Expressive and quick speed writing forces you into a state where thoughts begin to flow onto the paper–or computer screen should you write on the computer. (I do. I [...]

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Are you looking for a way to impart the knowledge you wish to pass along? Then consider writing a “mentor” book. These books take the reader on a journey where the protagonist finds a mentor who guides him or her through difficult life passages. Of interest to the fiction writer, “Meeting with the Mentor,” stage [...]

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