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Success Through Consistency - video
Richard Kelley
Richard Kelley, author of “The Fitness Response,” talks about the importance of consistency in reaching goals. As a weight-management physician and an author, Kelley has a unique perspective on what it takes to achieve something over long periods of...
over 9 years ago
Managing Your Writing Life
Time Management
Starting With an Outline - video
Eric Penz
Eric Penz, thriller author of titles such as Cryptid: The Lost Legacy of Lewis and Clark and Courage Between , makes the case that every author outlines, whether they know it or not. What is your best way to thoughtfully, intentionally outline? Is...
over 9 years ago
I have an Idea!
Outlining Your Story
Starting With an Outline - podcast
Eric Penz
Eric Penz, thriller author of titles such as Cryptid: The Lost Legacy of Lewis and Clark and Courage Between, makes the case that every author outlines, whether they know it or not. What is your best way to thoughtfully, intentionally outline? Is your...
over 9 years ago
I have an Idea!
Outlining Your Story
Organizing Your Plot - video
Wayne Hoffman
Writers often disagree about the importance of having an outline before you begin writing. Some argue that an outline limits creativity throughout the writing process. Others, such as author Wayne Hoffman, believe outlining is an important and necessary...
over 9 years ago
Fiction
Plot Planning
Tips for Ghostwriters - podcast
Kathi Macias
Author and ghostwriter Kathi Macias shares some considerations when taking on ghostwriting project. In a cultural moment where authors are consistently encouraged to “find their voice,” and “make themselves unique, it’s rare to find tips that are...
over 9 years ago
Writing Jobs
Ghostwriter
Moving Beyond Clichés - video
Neo Edmund
Author and screenwriter Neo Edmund discusses common clichés and character flaws in comics, and how a writer can avoid them. In the 80s, female characters needed to be almost everything that boys find cool. “You don’t start with the idea of ‘I’m writing...
over 9 years ago
Fiction
Common Mistakes
Organizing Your Plot - podcast
Wayne Hoffman
Writers often disagree about the importance of having an outline before you begin writing. Some argue that an outline limits creativity throughout the writing process. Others, such as author Wayne Hoffman, believe outlining is an important and necessary...
over 9 years ago
Fiction
Plot Planning
Mary Laura Philpott on Her Memoir-in-Essays, I Miss You When I Blink
Mary Laura Philpott
“This is the book when you're feeling like ‘WHAT THE HELL AM I GOING TO DO WITH MY LIFE?!' and you need to know that you're not alone.” Mary Laura Philpott writes essays that examine the overlap of the absurd and the profound in everyday life. Her...
over 6 years ago
Nonfiction
Reason for Writing
Roser Caminals-Heath on Writing The Street of the Three Beds - video
Roser Caminals-Heath
To author Roser Caminals-Heath, writing a book is like a puzzle, and it's not complete until all of the pieces come together. Her novel, The Street of the Three Beds,is a historical crime story set in the late nineteenth century in Barcelona. Living...
over 9 years ago
Fiction
Setting
Roser Caminals-Heath on Writing and Translating The American Seduction - video
Roser Caminals-Heath
Literary translator and author Roser Caminals-Heath felt a calling to write her nonfiction book, The American Seduction, which she is currently in the process of translating into English. This collection of stories was inspired by her memorable moments...
over 9 years ago
Nonfiction
Platform and Credibility
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