Writing Practice Prescription

Forgetting Too Many Things?
13 Tips for Getting Organized and Staying Focused!
A new book by Martha Weinman Lear, entitled “Where Did I Leave My Glasses?” addresses the increasingly distressful (to many of us!) issue of memory loss. Fortunately, she puts the issue in a more positive light and refers to our forgetfulness as “nature’s [...]

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Seven writers gathered at Cameron’s Pub and Inn to attend our April 19th, 2008 WellWriting Workshop: Seeking Wellness–Story by Story. At the end of the day, the group was bonded, happy, and pleased with their day. Each participant took home their writing materials and output as well as a CD loaded with resources about developing [...]

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Leon and I were in the same writing retreat group with David Fryxell a few years back at the Maui Writers Conference. Since that time our group stays loosely in touch. What a joy to get Leon’s email a few days back in which he reported:
“Hot off the Press: ZigZag Pass: Love and War, is [...]

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Here’s a nice blog post I found while surfing the net this morning. Enjoy.
Writing as Therapy
by
Laura Woodruff, LCSW
I have found writing to be such a good tool for emoting. It is such a great way to cleanse the soul! There are some things that are not appropriate for the blog, as we all [...]

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At the most recent Maui Writers Conference event I attended one of the speakers noted that the most frequent mistake she encountered among new writers was that of getting edited too early in the process of writing their books. So just when should you submit your work to an editor?
Check out this article from editor [...]

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By
Barbara McNichol
As writers, we can get caught up in an idea or feel particularly attached to a word or phrase. Our writing can suffer as a result. When editing your own manuscript, dare to be brutally honest with yourself. To help you, here’s a list of tips and techniques for steering clear of common pitfalls [...]

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“Just the facts, Ma’am, just the facts,” may be good advice to keep your writing simple and on track, but there’s no reason why you can’t arrange those facts to put color and a little grin into the essence of things.
Consider the standard tagline used by many authors: “XXX is YYY who ZZZ. He/she lives [...]

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Mindstorming, sometimes called prospecting or the “20-idea method” sets the stage for letting your creative juices call forth suggestions for your writing as well as ways to improve your fortune and productivity. The process of mindstorming involves taking a question and then doing some personal “brainstorming” with your writing. This exercise is a great jogger [...]

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Author Shannon Brownlee in her book, Overtreated–Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, notes that our American Healthcare system cost us $2.1 trillion in 2006. The 2016 prediction of cost soars up to $4.1 trillion.
Worse, in spite of numerous past attempts to fix the system, 47 million Americans or one in six [...]

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Heart-health expert and CEO of the American Foundation for Women’s Health, Mellanie True Hills, sends an email noting that, “maybe writing can not only cure chronic disease but also keep you from getting it in the first place.” Her comment stems from a blog entry she read on the SHI Symbol International’s Weblog:
“Research from Arizona [...]

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