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Writing When You're Visually Impaired
Sunday, August 03, 2008
With freelance writer/author Bruce Atchison
This week's guest reminds us that blind people write books too.
Bruce Atchison spent his formative years in the small Canadian city of Fort Saskatchewan. After being operated on for congenital cataracts, he was left with poor vision; later glaucoma set in as well.
Interviewee: Bruce Atchison
Host: Paula B.
Date: August 3, 2008
Running time: 46:33
File size: 22 megabytes
Rating: G
Contact Bruce at: batchison@mcsnet.ca
A Successful Freelancer Who Turned Himself into an Ad Agency
Sunday, July 27, 2008
With copywriter Ken Honeywell
This week's guest was a successful freelance writer earning six figures. He worked from home and took meetings in shorts. Why did he give all that up to start his own advertising agency?
Interviewee: Ken Honeywell
Host: Paula B.
Date: July 27, 2008
Running time: 43:20
File size: 21 megabytes
Rating: G
Ken Honeywell's Web site: WellDoneMarketing.com
Writing Plays
Sunday, July 20, 2008
With playwright and author Alretha Thomas
Alretha Thomas' plays have received rave reviews. In this high-energy interview, we focus on two of them: a comedy, Reddie Maid Wife, and a drama, Sacrificing Simone.
Interviewee: Alretha Thomas
Host: Paula B.
Date: July 20, 2008
Running time: 53:10
File size: 25 megabytes
Rating: G
Alretha's Web site: DaughterDenied.com
Download and listen to Writing Plays, with Alretha Thomas
Call for Submissions: Holiday Short Stories
Monday, August 04, 2008
We are looking for short stories for our December holiday short story celebration. This year we are paying $75 for each of two stories we select!...Full details here
Announcing The Writing Show Mentoring Services
The Writing Show with Paula B. offers expert mentoring for fiction and nonfiction writers in a supportive, confidential environment. Services include critiques and one-on-one help. Details available here.
First-Chapter Contest Critique Winners
Monday, August 04, 2008
Congratulations to our ten critique winners:
Dharma Kelleher
Brenda Crawford
Ron Cooper
Talitha Mitchell
John Michael Tracy
Clayton Luz
Aaron Smith
Christian Schulenburg
Frances Julia Kemp
Valerie Getsinger
Critiques will be delivered on September 1, 2008!
Meet our judges here. Editor/book designer Jill Ronsley has just joined our panel!
Jurgen Wolff's Tips, Ideas, and Inspirations for Writers
Monday, August 04, 2008
Five-Day Free Writing Success Mini-Course
Created by Jurgen Wolff, incorporating the ideas of Donny Deutsch
On his CNBC blog, ad man and Big Idea guru Donny Deutsch shared his principles of success. Deutsch doesn’t have any connection to this mini-course, but I’m grateful to him for sharing these strategies. For lots of great information on marketing, innovation, and creativity, check out his Big Idea blog at www.cnbc.com.
I suggest you consider one of the following techniques each day for the next five days and do the assignments that I have added. Don’t let their simplicity fool you—the secret of making them work is to actually implement them.
Download the free course as a PDF file here.
(There's a lot more useful information about overcoming the fear of writing and writer's block, as well as how to get your family and friends to be more supportive of your writing, in my book, YOUR WRITING COACH, published by Nicholas Brealey and available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other online and retail outlets now.)
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