by Elizabeth | Jan 29, 2013 | Featured
1) Start with the idea words: love, shame, guilt, fear. Now brainstorm a bunch of actions that correspond to those ideas. Put down everything you think of. Then turn those actions around. What opposite, unexpected actions might also be symptoms of the same ideas or...
by Elizabeth | Jan 24, 2013 | Featured
Devi Laskar, poet and blog editor at BWW until recently, got many of us started on writing down our favorite 1,000 words, reminding us that we have the tools to rocket our worlds. Many of us, including me, got going, and then in the hullabaloo of the holidays, my...
by Elizabeth | Jan 22, 2013 | Featured
1) Pick a time. Take a look at what’s possible. It doesn’t have to be an enormous amount of time, either, unless you absolutely require an enormous amount of time. (But beware of absolute requirements–they don’t function well against the...
by Elizabeth | Jan 15, 2013 | Featured
This is one of our stand-bys in the Book Writing World. I assign it to my Mentoring Group each quarter, and each quarter people learn something new about the old ways they work and how to support them and turn them into dynamite strategies for accomplishing everything...
by Elizabeth | Jan 8, 2013 | Featured
1) One sentence a day. One of my students had two young children at home and was trying to finish a memoir. She committed to writing one sentence a day. Because her primary challenge was to open the manuscript—that was always the hardest part for her, to make that...
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