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I give writing tips and talk more deeply about the things that make me think over here. Our podcasts? All over the place, but you can see them here.
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I haven’t had a BE BRAVE FRIDAY for a bit, but it’s something I used to do all the time to try to push myself out of my comfort zone, especially about sharing my art. There’s this old Simon Sinek quote that goes, “A star wants to see herself rise to the top. A leader…
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And how to put it on the page Sound. It often surrounds us. But sometimes it is just completely and utterly gone. I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a moment of high trauma (personal or public). It’s the moment when something big happens, something so big that time feels like it slows down…
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Thoughts on Writing Action and a Little Bit on Pacing So, I’ve been talking a bit about action scenes lately. And one of the big adages that writing coaches and writers put out there is that you want the form to match the function. Chuck Wendig is a big advocate of this and he writes,…
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“To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore That Moore quote blew my mind today. That’s because for me, I always thought that I was afraid to paint or even try to paint because my sweet, well meaning mom told me when I was little that nobody in our family had an…
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Writing action scenes means picking details. Readers, have you ever read an action scene and it made you feel dizzy? You are not alone. This happens when the writer wants to put every single detail of the scene inot the scene, on the page, and in your mind. This is a really kind want of a…
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I wrote over on LIVING HAPPY about some time management tools for planning your day, and today, Shaun and I are checking it out a little bit more. DOG TIP FOR LIFE Day planning needs to include walks, poops, and water. Just saying. LINKS WE MENTION https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2022-07.html https://livinghappy.substack.com/p/how-do-you-actually-manage-your-time-e5b
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It’s about lists and hacks There’s a book by Chet Holmes called The Ultimate Sales Machine, that I used on my post Saturday to springboard into a discussion about time management and productivity. I’m going to be continuing that thread a bit today for our round-up. This sort of information (about my life and about trying to make it better) doesn’t…
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It’s BE BRAVE FRIDAY! Since I started the Bar Harbor Story, I’ve been getting up at 5 working on my own novels (5-7) and then doing paying work and the news blog throughout the day and sometimes into the night because town meetings are at night (7 to 5 or 7 or 11 if the…
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The sexy place is the actual writing. Almost every time that I go to a school visit and am asked questions or when I’m interviewed by newspapers, I get asked two things: I don’t actually think of myself as having a ton of energy. Like right now, it’s 7:06 a.m. and I’ve been up since…
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Some people even call it a super power. I used to be weirder. I know! For some of you that’s hard to imagine, but the truth is that I just sort of let my freak flag show no matter what level of freak that currently is. This, obviously, was a bad idea when I ran…