When I first started my online life I knew nothing of personal branding. I didn’t even think about it. As a result when my name was searched all types of things that I’ve tried online would show up. That eHow account I started when I first started writing online was always the first in the …
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I watched an Anthony Robbins video the other day that really hit home. (Yes, I am a Tony Robbins fan.) In it a woman was telling him about how terrible her marriage was and about how she’d been trying for years to fix it. When talking to her Tony put a lot of emphasis on …
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Yesterday I sat out here all day as the sun took its afternoon stroll across the sky. The dampness from the ground soaked through my blue jeans, but I didn’t care. As long as I was hidden carefully out of sight nothing else mattered. The cornstalks are taller than me now. Green and straight they …
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I read a book about writing a long time ago that recommended that you read for at least an hour everyday to improve your writing. How many authors are really doing that? I freely admit that I’ve let my reading fall by the wayside in the past couple years. When I was a kid and …
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Do you write an outline for a novel before you start writing? Many people do. Some people think you can’t write a good novel without an outline. Some people don’t believe outlining is necessary at all. I used to be one of those people, but I’m slowly changing my mind. I’ve been working on a …
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Robert stared at the seven digits he’d scrawled on the back of a crumbled drug store receipt trying to commit them to memory. He did this by repeating the numbers silently in his mind again and again then closing his eyes and trying to recall them. No matter how many times he did this, he …
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Julian sat on the large gray boulder at the roadside. Its perfectly flat top invited him to take a short rest. His feet seemed to have gotten larger since he started his journey. The sides of his shoes pressed into them squeezing the blood from his toes. He crossed an ankle over a knee and …
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I was going to write about something totally different today, but I just read an interesting post on Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s blog about how the publishing industry is changing to basically screw authors that really got me thinking. If you haven’t read the post yet I highly recommend checking it out. You can read it …
[ Continue Reading... ]Need a little inspiration to achieve your personal best? Here’s a great video I saw this morning about speed climber Ueli Steck.
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Some people are able to write for hours everyday and acheive an amazing daily word count. Others don’t have that luxury. For many of us family and a day job prevent us from having the time we’d like to finish our novels. With so many people and things competing for your attention how can you …
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