The Piano as the Frame, Week #4 So sad. Today is the last prompt for the month of June! Before we begin a new theme on Monday, let’s take an unexpected walk in piano interpretation with a musician who is also a funny actor – Harry Connick, Jr. Your job is to express emotions about Harry Connick Jr.’s song, Do…
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You know you need to blog to help build your author platform, keep your website content fresh and discoverable, and (hopefully!) sell more books. So you finally took the plunge, and you are posting to your blog regularly. It’s been several months now, though, and you realize that you only have a handful of followers—all of whom are related to…
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The Piano as the Frame, Week #4 The piano becomes the teacher today, telling us how it should be played and in what order the keys should be. Our instructor emeritus is pop singer Marc Cohn. Your job today is to express emotions about Marc Cohn’s song, Walking in Memphis. Creative Idea Gal’s Thoughts I had heard the song Walking…
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This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. Once you have completed your table of contents (TOC), it’s time to continue your Author Training by looking at what you’ve created from a publishing business perspective—as if you were an acquisitions editor. You already have some…
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The Piano as the Frame, Week #4 June seems to have flown by! The summer is finally here, school is finally out, and we’re in our last week of piano interpretation. I thought I’d finish off this week with a bang. In this last week of June, we’ll be referring to the piano as a frame to the potency of…
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