by Linden Gross | Jul 4, 2024 | Writing
“A closed mouth doesn’t get fed,” a teen said at the close of a recent NPR interview about students in Chicago having a voice regarding their school improvements. I’d never heard the saying, but I figured it was a little too pithy for a high school...
by Linden Gross | Jun 20, 2024 | Lessons From my Dogs, Writing, Writing Coach Services
Bad habits are hard to break. On dog walks, my two-year-old English Cocker Spaniel continues to jump on humans and their canine companions. Meanwhile, my five-year-old Aussie-Shepherd-Husky insists on introducing himself to new pups in the most intimate of ways. Both...
by Linden Gross | Jun 6, 2024 | Sales, Writing
“I want this book to be a bestseller,” my writing coach prospects and clients will often say to me. Who doesn’t? I think to myself as I rush to assure them that if I knew the key to writing a bestseller, I would likely be sipping a cocktail under a palm tree on a...
by Linden Gross | May 30, 2024 | Writing, Writing Coach Services, Writing Life
I love brainstorming. It’s one of my favorite things to do when working with clients, since together we can reach ideas that neither of us would have accessed alone. So, I experience the power of brainstorming regularly and see the results in both fiction and...
by Linden Gross | May 23, 2024 | Writing
Winter warnings early in the week had given way to forecasted temperatures of 80°. It was time to take the pups swimming. We headed to Good Dog Park–since, true to its name, my dogs tend to behave better there than at other off-leash destinations–and...
by Linden Gross | May 2, 2024 | Collaborating/Ghostwriting, Ghostwriting, Success Stories, Writing, Writing Life
I’m not good with heights. I definitely didn’t want to climb out of my comfort zone. So, I just said no when all my friends told me that I would have to climb Luna, the 200-foot redwood that Julia “Butterfly” Hill—whose book I had been hired to ghostwrite—was living...
