I tend to be a fairly verbose writer. My husband actually calls me “The Queen of Verbosity.” Yes, I can write a lot in a short amount of time. I admit it. When I’m working on assignment, I often find that I have exceeded my 1, 500-word article requirement, for example, by at least double – if not triple the…
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Polish Your Writing in May
Anyone want to polish their writing in May? Join me for 4-week teleseminar sponsored by The Institute for Radical Forgiveness. You can find all the details here. Also, if you are interested in increasing your platform via joint-venture publishing, consider this course and/or submitting a chapter to one of Colin Tipping’s upcoming joint-venture publishing projects. He’s sold over 115,000 copies…
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Tips for Inducing Labor When Your Words Don’t Want to Be Born
For a writer, sometimes getting started represents the hardest part of the writing process. Getting that first word or sentence out onto the paper or screen can feel like trying to give birth to a breach baby. For me, it’s the lead to an article or the first paragraph or two of an essay or of a chapter that feels…
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Tips for Authors Doing Radio Interviews
In early March I traveled to Connecticut to do two talks related to two of my book projects. As part of that trip, I managed to land two radio interviews. Although I do a monthly podcast on Conversations with Mrs. Claus, I don’t have much experience with radio interviews. Really, I’m a writer more than a speaker, which I think…
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Creating a Winning Pitch:The Writer’s Elevator Speech
Imagine yourself riding in the elevator at a hotel where you are attending a writer’s conference. The door opens and in steps the one agent you really, really think would serve as the perfect literary representative for you and your book. You open your mouth, introduce yourself and begin to speak. What do you say? Do you tell the agent…
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