I’m constantly telling my coaching clients to start their books with carefully planning. Just today I told stopped one of my clients from writing a chapter. She hasn’t really gotten a handle on what she is writing. She knows her topic, but she has not created a table of contents for her book; in fact, she has way too much…
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The Heat is On! Write a Book Fast!
It’s summer, and that means just one thing… (No, its not time for a vacation.) It’s time to use the next few weeks or months to get busy and start and finish a writing project—fast—before things gear up again in the fall. Here’s how… Those of you in the Northern California area can register for my next workshop, How to…
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Turning an E-Book into a P-Book with InDesign
I bet you wondered what happened to me when no blog post showed up n Monday. Well, I was a bit busy learning how to design a book in Adobe InDesign. I was going to try and hire a designer, but I had the program and I used to do a ton of design work “back in the day” when…
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How Much Content are You Sitting On?
I got motivated to turn out some products–books–the other day. I’m off to a convention at the end of the month where I am teaching two workshops. I’d like to bring something new and more professionally produced. I have a number of short books based on longer works I planned on writing one day (currently stalled in the proposals stage),…
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10 Lesson’s Writers Should Learn from Oprah
Last week I promised another post about lessons I learned from Oprah–or rather from Oprah’s last show. However, I feel so strongly that these are lessons not just for writers but for all those who want to make a difference in the world. Writers need to see themselves as change agents, for their words ultimately do change lives. I work…
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How to Rejuvenate Yourself for Better Writing
I spent all of Memorial Day outside pulling weeds. I have a large property up in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. Between work and driving my son to and from San Francisco almost every day–a three hour round trip drive–I don’t have much time to get outside these days and garden. Mostly I just try to keep the…
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A Lesson Learned from Oprah
It’s been a long time since I had time to sit and watch the Oprah Show, but I used to love watching it. The last time I took the time was when I recorded her interview with President Barak Obama and his wife, Michelle. But I recorded her last show…and I managed yesterday morning to watch about 20 minutes of…
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