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Expand Your Creativity

July 12, 2013 by Kathy Steffen 5 Comments

  How can you reduce stress, re-energize, expand your creativity, find a new perspective and motivate yourself? One word. FUN. Studies document how important laughter and fun is to enhance your life and health. There is another important benefit to an artist or writer—increased productivity and creativity. Summer is the perfect time to turn up … [Read more…]

Posted in: Featured, Inspiration, Writing Life Tagged: artist's date, Creative writing inspiration, motivate

Nothing’s Set In Stone: Getting Past Writer’s Anxiety

July 3, 2013 by Amy Knupp 3 Comments
Anxious Woman

Writing is hard. Coming up with a new story idea is exciting, and playing god to your story world can be wicked fun, but almost everything else between the light-bulb moment and typing “The End” is different degrees of torment for me and, I’m sure, scores of others. I don’t know who said it first, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Featured, Inspiration, Writing Life Tagged: writer anxiety, writer's block

The Secret to Creative Writing

June 14, 2013 by Kathy Steffen 3 Comments

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. –Rumi For writers and artists, especially ones who have a business side to their artistic endeavors, there is a constant tightrope act of walking between the logic part of the brain and letting go so the creative side can … [Read more…]

Posted in: Featured, Inspiration, Writing Life Tagged: creative writing, inspiration, writing tips

Freelance Writing: Voice and Style

May 17, 2013 by Bobbi Dumas Leave a Comment
Finding your writing voice

I recently finished a big project for a client that involved many hours in the Executive Director’s office, fine-tuning copy and making sure that what I thought the client wanted to say was actually what was showing up on the page. There was a very quick turn-around, and while the project wrapped before the hard … [Read more…]

Posted in: Featured, Finding Writing Markets, Writing Business Tagged: freelance writing

Steps to Success – Be A Writer

April 19, 2013 by Bobbi Dumas 2 Comments
Woman Writing by Hand

It’s a funny thing, but I really began to make money as a writer when I started thinking like one.  Now I don’t mean in the nebulous “positive thinking” kind of way, as if by thinking it, suddenly it becomes true. While maintaining an optimistic attitude is always helpful, it’s not going to get you … [Read more…]

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