How to Write a Blog: It’s a Process

Just because I’m a blog coach doesn’t mean that cranking out a weekly blog post is easy. As a busy professional who works as a writer, editor, writing coach and blog coach, carving out the time is write a blog—especially my own—is hard. To be honest, I...

The Art of Writing a Book Media Release

I seem to be writing more and more media releases these days, what with writing coach clients launching their books and businesses needing to promote themselves. Between my background as a journalist and my years of writing, I know how to attract an editor’s...
Story-Showing Not Story-Telling

Story-Showing Not Story-Telling

Although writing is often called story-telling, it should actually be renamed story-showing. And that’s done through dramatization, so that the reader has a sense that he or she is living the experience instead of just reading about it. We need to drop into your...

Viral Story-Telling

If the story below were being told on paper, I’d want a lot more story-showing than story-telling. I’ll write about that next. Until then, the video below is a great example of viral story-telling. Brad Phillips blog, which arrived in my mailbox thanks to...

Writing a Memoir Tips

Writing a memoir is not the same as writing your autobiography. This is not the all-inclusive story of your life, no matter how fascinating. A memoir has a specific theme, which is revealed to the reader through narrative prose that reads like fiction. To write a good...