Sitemap - 2010 - Your Weekly Writing Exercise

New Year's Collage Party

Last-Minute Gift Ideas for Book Writers

The Road to Remembering: How Do You Recall Accurate Memories for Your Memoir?

Hybrids: When You're Writing a Book That Straddles Two Genres

Enough, Already! Is It Time to Start Revising Your Manuscript?

Three Writers on Writing and Creativity

Preparing for Hibernation--Building a Winter Writing Rhythm

National Novel Writers' Month--A Crazy but Effective Approach to Making a Book

How High Are the Stakes? Building Better Conflict and Dilemma into Your Book

Acceptance and Rejection--Balance in the Creative Life

Finding Theme in Your Book: An Exercise in Searching for Repeating Patterns

Feeling the Fear and Writing Anyway--Facing the Inner Critic

Creating the Page-Turner: Tricks to Great Pacing in Your Books

Expansion and Contraction: The Art of Working with Scene and Summary in Your Writing

Building a Writing Practice That Helps You Realize, Access, and Sustain Your Creativity

Unconscious Competence

Creative Innocence versus Creative Resistance

Creative Tension and Sharing Our Work--Is It Time or Is It Premature?

Dilemma in Three Acts--Story Arcs and the Big W

Writing with Images or Writing with Words? Learn the Difference in Effect on Your Reader

Revision--How Do You See Your Own Writing from a Different Viewpoint?

Writing Retreats--What Happens When You Are Alone with Your Creativity

Your Book Starts Here--Online Class *or* The Surprising Benefits of Online Learning While You're Writing Your Book

Emotional Truth--What You're After in Your Book, After All

What's a Successful Book Launch?

Looking Back: When Backstory Helps and When It Hinders Your Writing

Feedback and Critique--Finding Safety as Well as Good Growth

Following a Different Path: Is an MFA Right for You and Your Book?

Emotional Arc of Your Story--How Act 1 and Act 2 Create Rhythm a Reader Will Follow

When Bad Things Happen to Us or to Others--Dealing with Deep Emotion in Your Writing

Writing Outside Your Story: Using Short Self-Assignments When You Don't Have Anything to Write About

A Sneaky Way to Bring Joy Back to Your Writing

Does Practice Make Perfect--Or Even Contribute Significantly to Your Writing Goals?

Small Steps for Continual Improvement--Work on Your Book-in-Progress

Cracking Open the Heart--The Triad of Healing through Writing

Three Steps to Crafting a Book: Content, Structure, Language

The Final Act--Are You Ready to Finish Your Story?

Go to the Movies--And Learn about Structuring Your Book

Three Acts--A Way to Organize the Monster That Is Your Book Manuscript

Being on the Radio--WNPR Helps Me Fall in Love with My Story Again

Building Your Platform--Key to Selling Your Manuscript in Today's Publishing Industry

Registration Now Open for My Summer Book-Writing Retreat--On an Island in Lake Superior!

Learning to Edit Your Own Writing

Book-Writing Map Workshop--March 26/27 at the Loft Literary Center. Register now while there's still room.

Discouragement as a Springboard into Higher Creativity

Setting: The Best Way to Get Emotion into Your Stories

Let Me Know What You Think!

Envision, Think, Dream, Refine: The Four Steps to Manifesting

Receptive Listening--How to Get to Know Your "Players"

Remedies for Writer's Block--How I've Been Using My Storyboard to Break Through

Creative Collages--A Way to Get Deeper into Your Story and Your Life

How to Survive Writing a Book--The Blessing of Short Assignments

Pacing through Paragraphs

Writing a Book? Here's a Workshop to Help You Structure It

Quotes to Inspire Writers

New Year's Resolutions for Writers--What Do You Want for Your Creativity This Year?