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Take A Deep Breath And Fill The Creative Well
Everything is moving very fast right now. Ebooks are going nuts with new Kindles, new markets and sites launching all over the place. Mid-list authors are leaving publishers and getting their...
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Creative Inspiration From Burning Man. Oh, The Places You’ll Go
One day I will go to Burning Man festival, a place where you can be whoever you want to be. It’s a time of self-expression, self-reliance and art in its myriad forms. Travel and creativity excite me...
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Money, Books And Art
Making money is one aspect of publishing, but changing people’s lives and the creative process is far more than that. This guest post from the One Week Book Team will challenge your motivations for...
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When A Picture Helps You Create A Thousand Words
I’m a visual person and as I’m writing I often find myself on Flickr or YouTube looking for images and footage that will help me write. Just yesterday I was researching Mount Nebo in Jordan, using...
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Becoming A Creative Genius With Phil South
Creativity fascinates us as writers. We seek it and study it, and yet it often appears when we just stop and are silent with our thoughts. As authors we strive to turn our creativity into a finished...
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Writing, Creativity And The Empowerment Of The Author In Publishing With Orna...
There are a few people who I consider mentors for my own writing and creative life, and Orna Ross is one of them so I am delighted to interview her for you. Today we talk about the importance of...
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Think Like A Writer Every Day, Even If You Can’t Write Every Day
I totally agree with this post, because even on days when I am not specifically writing word count, I am still scanning the world for writing fodder. In London, everything seems to inspire me! Today,...
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The Click Moment. Embracing Randomness For Authors
As an entrepreneur, I love to read business books and sometimes, one comes along that just makes me go crazy with enthusiasm! In this case, I really did have a ‘click moment’ when I read Frans...
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Live In Order To Write, Active Meditation, Digital Fasting And Publishing In...
I’m just back from two weeks cycling through South West India – from Mysore in Karnataka, through Tamil Nadu and into Kerala. Cycling down the Western Ghats from Ooty into the tea plantations Here’s...
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How To Get In The Zone And Stay In It With Tom Evans
Tom Evans helped me get over my creative block around writing fiction several years ago (right here on the podcast!), and today he’s talking about his new book, The Zone: How to get in it and stay in...
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Die Empty. Managing Your Creative Rhythm With Todd Henry
As authors, we have to manage the production of work, but also the care of our creative souls. There’s a quote from Charles Bukowski that has been doing the rounds on social media, “Find what you love...
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The Intentional Writer: Finding the Time, Space, and Inspiration You Need to...
We all get overwhelmed with how much we have to do – especially now many of us are writers, publishers and marketers. As well as parents, spouses, friends and people living in the real world! But it’s...
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Make Art. Make Money. Lessons From Jim Henson With Elizabeth Hyde Stevens....
In keeping with the author entrepreneur focus of the blog recently, today I’m discussing making art and making money with Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, who wrote a book about Jim Henson’s career, which was...
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Write Books You Love. Think Global. Consider Multiple Streams Of Income
There’s been much teeth-gnashing in the indie community in the last month with lots of posts about quitting, about income dropping with Kindle Unlimited and the new EU Tax Law, about this or that...
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The Writing Life: Research, Ideas, Genre, Process And Tips For A Creative Career
I recently did a wide-ranging and fun interview on the Genretainment podcast with Marx Pyle and Julie Seaton. We talked about how I got into writing and why I write supernatural thrillers, the...
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Self-Publishing 2015 Round Up. 2016 Predictions Plus My Creative Writing Process
I LOVE New Year! A crisp fresh blank sheet of paper for us all to write upon … happy times! Instead of an interview today, I describe my own creative process. In the introduction, I reflect on the...
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Creativity, Art And Business With Lisa Congdon
Today I’m talking with Lisa Congdon about the creative process as a visual artist, the myth of overnight success, getting over self-doubt about our work, and the importance of multiple streams of...
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Why Write? There Are Already Too Many Books In The World
A child comes to you with a new drawing, crayon in hand, beaming with pleasure at creation and proud of the result. Do you say, “There are too many drawings in the world and this is no good. Stop...
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Writing Tips: How To Find And Capture Ideas For Your Novel
“Where do you get your ideas from?” Authors get asked this all the time and some get tired of it, because once you get into the hang of capturing ideas and writing them down, it seems like they just...
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Balance Consumption With Creation. A Writing Interview With J.F.Penn
You mostly get Joanna Penn on this site – my smiley, bubbly, helpful, non-fiction personality. But sometimes, I get interviewed as my fiction writing darker side, J.F.Penn. This interview has some...
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