Go ahead and challenge yourself in the new year. Try that project you’ve back-burnered or that writing dream you’ve always wanted to tackle. What do you have to lose? Of course, I’ll be here to help. So let’s have some fun. Buckle up and let’s try something. Here’s to a brilliant 2015. I… Continue Reading
Newbie Editing Success!
“Excruciating,” read one email. An even worse note hit shortly thereafter. “Seriously, my neighbor who has watched me come unraveled sprayed some kind of pot thing on my tongue to help anxiety.” After a few months of sloppy writing, my new client Sherri Hutcheson, a life coach out of Northern California, had moved on to… Continue Reading
Writing Lessons From My Dogs: Writing Focus
Writing a book requires unflagging focus and the willingness to push forward despite any obstacles. My pup Hoover evidences those qualities every time we get in the car. Although he has never been the alpha, he claimed the passenger seat as soon as he was large enough to scramble over from the back seat. Twelve… Continue Reading
Book Editing – Take Three
Here’s the mathematical beauty about writing. The same stupidly simple formula that applies to books as a whole also applies to chapters, paragraphs and even sentences. Say what? It’s true. Just as a chapter presents a single thesis or theme that contributes to the book’s larger story or argument, a paragraph presents a single thought… Continue Reading
Book Editing – Take Two
Once you’re satisfied that your story works as well as you want it to or, if you’re writing nonfiction, that you’ve made the strongest case you can, it’s time to dive into the next round of book editing. Start by asking yourself whether your work grabs your reader from the start. You know as well… Continue Reading
Editing Books – Take One
You have a first draft. Hurray! Once you finish congratulating yourself, it’s time to fall out of love with your prose. Here’s the great writing-related irony. When you started this process, I’ll bet you judged your work so harshly that you threatened to derail yourself. That’s why I always suggest to bind and gag your… Continue Reading
Writing Lessons from my Dogs: Get a Writing Head Start
What do you think about during your commute or while you’re driving around town? I’ll bet you haven’t made a point to reflect on what you’ll be writing about during the next writing session you’ve hopefully blocked out on your calendar. But what if you did? One of my newer writing coach clients mentioned that… Continue Reading
Website Keywords
If you’re going to bother creating something, you probably want someone to actually see it. That means they have to find it and you have to help. A website is a great start, but a website is a lot like a billboard. Place a billboard in the desert where no one drives by and no… Continue Reading
Writing Priorities
Looking forward to seeing more writing (hint, hint), read my email to a writing coach client with whom I had recently started working. I got nuthin… What the hell… It’s in there…, she replied. I quickly reviewed our notes from her last few sessions and discovered at least dozen possible writing prompts that had come… Continue Reading
Identifying a Local Writing Retreat
“I need to figure out a way to get away from my family for a week–or at least a weekend–so I can delve into the deeper thinking I need to do for my book,” one of my writing coach clients announced to me. “Or maybe I can just add a day to the trip I’m… Continue Reading
Literary Agent:
Ted Weinstein
Ted Weinstein Literary Management
Mechanics’ Library Building
57 Post Street, Suite 512
San Francisco, CA 94104
tw@twliterary.com
www.twliterary.com