Writing Lessons From my Dogs: Irrestistable Enticement

Writing Lessons From my Dogs: Irrestistable Enticement

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My six-year-old pup, Misha, used to be a snuggle bunny. That’s a big part of why we ended up together. Talk about irresistible enticement!

I had gone with a friend to meet the puppy she was adopting. Her boss was fostering six Aussie-mix cuties who had been surrendered at just four weeks old and had recently been rescued by an organization called CCREW from a shelter in Fresno, California. It turns out that puppies are so labor-intensive that many animal shelters will euthanize them.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid and a Killer Children’s Novel Series

Diary of a Wimpy Kid and a Killer Children’s Novel Series

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Writer success stories make me happy, especially when they’re huge and hugely unexpected.

Meet Jeff Kinney.

Jeff wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist. Although the University of Maryland, College Park’s daily newspaper featured a comic strip he’d created, the job offers didn’t exactly pile up after graduation. Instead, the rejection letters did.

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Flow

Flow

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Diane Allen wanted to do more public speaking. But she needed a book to garner more engagements. It didn’t have to be a long book. It just needed to set forth the scientific principles and positive psychology behind the practice of flow that she teaches her clients.

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How to Check a Book Proof

How to Check a Book Proof

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Over the last few months, half a dozen of my writing coach clients have finished their books. After celebrating that accomplishment, we jumped into book cover design consults, reviewed samples of both the cover and the interior pages, asked for tweaks on both and then made selections, reviewed the digital cover and interior pages proof, reviewed any changes we asked for, and finally ordered a physical book proof.

That’s when things get real. Instead of looking at your book on a computer, you actually receive a book you can hold. It can be a moving experience.

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Suspenseful Scenes

Suspenseful Scenes

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I’d had the best conversation with a prospect who, at the suggestion of a current writing coach client, had emailed me looking for help on a book that had been rattling around in her head, as she put it, for almost 40 years. Her protagonist, she told me, was a pro-choice advocate. I was intrigued.… Continue Reading

What If Writing Was Easy?

What If Writing Was Easy?

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My client sat down to her novel. Having blocked out the time to write, she was determined to honor that commitment to herself and her book. But she didn’t have a clue about what she was going to write that day. “In the past, that would have freaked me out,” she admitted during our subsequent… Continue Reading

Back in the Restaurant Review Business

Back in the Restaurant Review Business

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After a break, I’m back to writing restaurant reviews. I fell into that in 2008 when I was coaching a local Bend magazine staffer who was bemoaning the fact that she had to go dine out that evening and write a restaurant review. “I’d love that,” I announced. “I’ve done a ton of travel writing,… Continue Reading

Author Voices

Author Voices

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Over the last month, I’ve listened to two audiobooks—Tom Lake by Ann Patchett and Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken—which have been in my queue for months and months. For whatever reason, neither had grabbed me when I initially started them. This time around, I’ve found the stories as compelling as the prose. Indeed, the writing is… Continue Reading

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