You’re back! *grin* Okay, fellow writers, then let’s get busy. Today, as we prep for our journey, I want you to start exercising! We’re going to get in shape! Work off the dust of our minds, and tighten the flab of our daily schedules so we can utilize the writing time we have our days. Writing is much like every other discipline. There are four keys to a successful writer’s life: It takes commitment, (after all, as much as we’d like it to happen, those books don’t just download from our brains automatically!), it takes nurturing (did you know that your brain has a well of words for each day, and you need to replenish those words after you use them?), it takes time, (something we’re going to figure out […]
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Learn to Write a Novel in 2008!
We all have goals, right? Dreams, desires, things that have been niggling at us for years. For writers, it’s the dream of writing a novel. You’re a writer if every time you hear an interesting job description, read a compelling story in the newspaper, you think, hey, that would make an interesting premise for a novel. Well, this is the year to make that happen. Every week on Book Therapy we’ll be studying another aspect in storytelling – taking the “Heroes Journey” and breaking it down into bite-sized pieces for you to chew on and put in your Heroes Journey notebook. When we’re done, you should have the elements of how to write a great novel. Every Friday, we’re going to put those lessons into action by offering exercises—and asking […]
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