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Friday Flick: Advice from a Master Storyteller
Forget your opposable thumbs. What makes you distinctively human is your storytelling. Even if you couldn’t entertain your own family around the dinner table, you tell stories in every moment. You...
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Write Your Book This Year: Before You Jump
Whoosh–slap. Whoosh–slap. Did you learn to jump rope? Remember watching two friends turn a rope, as they called you in? Whoosh–slap. Whoosh–slap. Watching, waiting, feeling the rhythm, gathering...
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Write Your Book This Year: Do You Hafta?
You’ve been talking about this book for years. Now it’s time to fish or cut bait. Honestly—I’m here to let you off the hook. Do you mean it? Do you truly want to write a book? Why??? So? If you got...
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Write Your Book This Year: Clear the Decks!
Incoming ideas! Have you made enough space for them? Clear your desktop, literal and virtual. Clear other clutter around your work and living spaces. Most importantly, do this with the joyful intention...
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Write Your Book This Year: Pick Your Partner
Do you dance alone? Write alone? Some can. Some learn faster and more gracefully with a partner. Some clients send me work as soon as they write it. If you don’t have a writing coach as you write your...
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Write Your Book This Year: How to Write Right Now
Are you trying to squeeze your dream into your life, or will you fit your life into your dream? If you are waiting for magical writing time to appear on the horizon (perhaps after you retire), then...
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Write Your Book This Year: Got Fear?
Fear of writing, or fear of publishing, can be a healthy thing. It means you care. Daring to tell the truth, wanting to say it well, overcoming your fear of failure and your fear of success–those are...
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Write Your Book This Year: Give Me Ten
Are you waiting for your retreat, vacation, sabbatical, or retirement to write your book? Uninterrupted time sounds luxurious, and then it can be overwhelming. Whenever I reserve a day for my own...
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Don’t think of a purple giraffe (and what else not to say)
A company I admire allowed an employee to blog, “You probably don’t want to come to our conference, but here’s why I think you should.” Really? I don’t want to come to your conference? Now that you...
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Have you left your dream in the case for a while?
I was touched by this story of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Academy Week, where amateur musicians are invited in, especially when music teacher Tanesha Mitchell, who contributes so beautifully to her...
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