Upcoming Workshops & Events I’m the Journaling Guru at Caregiver Village, a new website opening soon at www.caregivervillage.com. Take a peek today, read my journals if you like, and let me know if you’d like to be notified when the site officially opens. This summer I’m offering an online group through Story Circle Network, www.storycircle.org/,
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Eager to Learn MoreWould you like a journaling workshop for your organization or group? If you are within four hours of the San Francisco Bay Area, Lynn can visit for a face-to-face introductory workshop at no charge to your organization. Other workshops can be arranged for a nominal fee. E-mail Lgood67334@comcast.net for information. She’ll be
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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
What will you do today to obtain the guidance you need to succeed? ~~Lisa Demasi NEW SUBMISSION: April-June 2019 A Few Ideas: Found a fan or a person touched by your writing? Had a rejection when a company changed owners? Had a story snapped up by two publishers at the same time? Had a
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Journaling for Caregivers, Characters, and Yourself Why Journal? – New Chance to Share Your Thoughts 1. Set a timer for 10 minutes. Complete one of these sentence starts. Keep writing. 2. Let the words flow. Don’t judge. 3. When the time rings, stop. 4. Read what you’ve read and underline what has energy. 5. Send
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Writing Advice – Volume 21 Number 4
Writing Advice: What an Editor Looks For An interview with Lynn Yvonne Moon by B. Lynn Goodwin When I submitted Never Too Late: From Wannabe to Wife at 62 to Koehler Books, www.koehlerbooks.com, the acquisitions editor who read it was Lynn Moon. She’d been a finalist in Writer Advice’s 2015 Flash Fiction Contest, and
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10 Questions To Help You Distinguish Voices By B. Lynn Goodwin In the Independent Study class I teach for Story Circle Network, people ask all kinds of questions. This term one person was concerned that all her characters sounded the same. I had her find objectives, obstacles, and strategies to overcome those
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Writing Advice – Volume 20 Number 3
10 Tips on Writing from Joyce Carol Oates Collected BY MARIA POPOVA for Brain Pickings,https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/07/19/joyce-carol-oates-10-tips-on-writing/ In a recent tweeting spree, the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates offered ten tips on writing — a fine addition to this master-list of famous authors’ wisdom on the craft. 1. Write your heart out.2. The first sentence can
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Writing Advice – Volume 19 Number 3
Incredible Writing Retreats to Attend in 2016 This is excerpted from a piece by Susan Shain. It originally appeared on December 22, 2015 at The Write Life, http://thewritelife.com/writing-retreats/ Do you dream of getting away to write, but need some guidance on the next steps for your novel? Want to meet and work with
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Writing Advice – Volume 21 Number 3
36 Writing Tips to Help You Write Like the Pros by Ajinkya Goyal The following is an excerpt from Ajinkya Goyal’s piece, which can be found here: airborneorange.com/36-writing-tips. As a blogger, writing is no doubt an integral part of your life. Be it fiction, or non-fiction, the quality of your writing should never dip below brilliant. You would no doubt have noticed
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WHY I WRITE: FASCINATING QUOTES FROM FAMOUS AUTHORS found on Aerogram Studioswww.aerogramstudios.com “Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.” ~~Harper Lee “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what
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26 Writing Tips to Help You Write Like the Pros The following is an excerpt from Ajinkya Goyal’s piece, which can be found here: airborneorange.com/36-writing-tips. As a blogger, writing is no doubt an integral part of your life. Be it fiction, or non-fiction, the quality of your writing should never dip below brilliant. You would no doubt have noticed that you
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Writing Advice – Volume 20 Number 2
How to Write a Great Story: A Roundup of Best Advice Posted on November 23, 2016 by Jane Friedman at https://janefriedman.com/write-great-story-roundup-best-advice/ Jane Friedman is a skilled, wise advisor. You can read about her expertise at https://janefriedman.com/about/. This is taken from her web page, a site you should bookmark. Over the last five years, I’ve
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