Inspiration
Chart A Course To Write Your Memoir
Like clients Kirby and Jonathan, you can write and publish your memoir. Consider the Memoir class as getting your feet wet, the Creative Writers Workshop as training, and personal writer’s coaching & editing as the swim toward the finish line. Start Somewhere. Diana Nyad, 64, an American long distance swimmer, became the first person…
Read MoreDo You Have A Book In You?
Recently at a party, a photographer and I eagerly compared how, in our work, we blur the lines between commercial and artistic. I found it intriguing when she shared shooting headshots for actors and models present different challenges. Actors, she said, are more malleable, whereas models often have limited flexibility from their ‘look.’ With a…
Read MoreAfter The Deadline
After the researching, drafting, editing, and dancing the final adrenaline-fueled dance with the deadline, you submit your writing. Gone; out of your hands. Your desk still looks the same, but there’s an eerie silence. . .except in your head. A writer can often feel lost or jittery, filled with anticipatory dread about the final edit,…
Read MoreCrazy-Busy Writer
When the young writer didn’t communicate in his usual combination of valley-speak and text-speak, I knew something was up. “I’m crazy-busy,” he spouted, jittery as an overly caffeinated Chihuahua. I paused to inhale, maybe have a thought, so he anxiously interrupted to cement his point. “Like, OMG, cray-cray busy!” Oh, NOW I get it! Sure,…
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