“Whatever you can conceive, and believe, you can achieve, through hard work and a positive mental attitude.” W. Clement Stone. CONCEIVE IT: The first step in manifesting your destiny is to conceive of what you want. This means taking the time to think about what you want to achieve and how you want to live …
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Dec 28
Surefire Hacks to Supercharge Your Writing
This article is for all the writers who want to improve their writing skills. It will provide tips and tricks on how to write better, faster, and smarter. Some of the tips and trade secrets that will be discussed in this article are: How to write more efficiently. How to use your time wisely. How …
Nov 04
Writing To Understand The World
WRITING TO SORT IT ALL OUT: A famous writer once wrote that writers write to understand the world. I believe that this is an incontestable truth. There’s simply too much documented evidence that we writers think with our fingers, per se. As Natalie Goldberg says in her seminal books “Writing Down The Bones” and “Wild …
Oct 23
ADHD and Creativity as an Older Creative
Confessions of a Grizzled Newbie As I’ve said in previous posts, I’m a veteran writer, because I’ve been writing seriously since I was 14, which was in 1973, and I’ve been writing for publication since 1982. However, I’ve never earned my living from my writing, so I’m also a newb in that sense. I suspect …
Oct 23
ADHD AND CREATIVITY
BLAME IT ON THE A.D.D. You can find many, many more detailed, well-thought out and balanced articles online than what this article will be. My focus… or lack of focus… ba dump-bump… RIMSHOT… is going to be more personal. This article is about how ADHD affects ME, especially when it comes to Learning and Creativity. …
May 15
Surefire Hacks to Beat Writer’s Block
GOOD OL’ WRITER’S BLOCK One of the questions that one hears in Writers’ Groups, especially online, is, “How do you beat Writer’s Block?” The simple answer? Write. I know, I know, easier said than done. How do you write when you’re blocked? you say. It’s the same thing you do to “Write your way outta …
Dec 19
How to Write Drunk and Edit Sober
THE GREATEST WRITING MAXIM THAT HEMINGWAY NEVER SAID “Write drunk, edit sober,” it’s an often-quoted bit of advice generally attributed to Ernest Hemingway. This pithy quote is all over the internet. You can buy Write Drunk Edit Sober posters, Write Drunk Edit Sober coffee mugs, and Write Drunk Edit Sober t-shirts, often accompanied by a …
Dec 19
Copywriting Sample: Restaurant Sales Letter
It’s Time for an adventure: enjoy great Cuban food and drink with me this Friday night at Iowa’s only Cuban restaurant, THE LOST CUBAN Dear Laura, You and I have often discussed the fact that we’re each bored with the dozen Chinese, Mexican, Italian, and other restaurants in the area, and I’d heard of the …
Dec 19
5 Old-School Sales Tricks that Still Work
Originally published on Medium.Com, Jun 1, 2016 Times have changed. But then, that has always been true. It’s like the old adage (are there actually NEW adages?) about the weather: If you don’t like the weather… wait a minute. In other words, change is inevitable. And yet, there is nothing new under the sun, as King Solomon …
Dec 19
Why I Write
THE BIG QUESTION Probably the most asked question in the writing game, after “How do I get an agent” and “How do you get your ideas” is “Why do you write?” It should be the first question all writers ask of themselves. I’ve been writing since I wrote my first creative writing assignment in 5th …
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