
Tips
By thebookwright, on February 11th, 2010
The 6 things that stop people writing
Part #003: Fear of the Unknown
This the third of this short blog series on the six things that stop authors writing …
… you can see the first blog on Fear of Ridicule here here
… and the second on Fear of Failure here
The Fear of the Unknown
It’s kind of natural [...]

Tips
By thebookwright, on January 25th, 2010
The 6 things that stop people writing
Part #002: Fear of Failure
This the second of this short blog series on the six things that stop authors writing …
… you can see the first blog here
The Fear of Failure
This is really common too. The best way to avoid failure is not to try in the first place. [...]

Tips
By thebookwright, on December 2nd, 2009
The 6 things that stop people writing
Part #001: Fear of Ridicule
Over the last few years, I have seen so many common themes that express themselves as writer’s block – and experienced them myself.
They are as follows:
Fear of ridicule
Fear of failure
Fear of the unknown
Fear of success
Lack of time
Lack of talent
- these are of course all perceptions [...]

Publishing
By thebookwright, on November 16th, 2009
Writing a blog is a brilliant way to end up with a book and cure writer’s block at the same time.
French checkout girl Anna Sam blogged about the vagaries of her customers and ended up with a three book deal and a film being made about her life … and not working on the checkout [...]

Metaphysics
By thebookwright, on November 11th, 2009
Have you ever had the most amazing idea or light bulb moment and then not carried it through?
Then a year or two later, you see someone else has done it and ’stolen’ your invention or idea for a book.
You take umbrage and feel a bit aggrieved.
To explain how this comes about, imagine that all knowledge, [...]

Tips
By thebookwright, on October 8th, 2009
The mind and brain is like any other part of our body – use it and it either stays in shape or improves – abuse it or ignore it and it will atrophy.
Words and vocabulary are the essential raw materials for a writer.
In the English language especially, we are blessed with a rich repository of [...]

Creativity
By thebookwright, on September 29th, 2009
The In-spirational Hyphen
A hyphen can make a huge difference in a word and give it a new semantic and the reader a new insight.
I’ve been reading Lee Carroll’s Kryon channellings recently. In his first book, The End Times, he channeled much about “voiding karma” and taking the “neutral implant”. The simple message is one that [...]

Publishing
By thebookwright, on September 14th, 2009
This short video is for anyone who has ever submitted a manuscript to a publisher or literary agent and met with a rejection letter or – worse still – silence.
It applies equally well though in any situation …
The secret is to adopt a new strategy which focuses on Adding Value …
Your task after watching this [...]

Creativity
By thebookwright, on September 12th, 2009
Apocryphally Salvador Dali used to put a spoon under his elbow around siesta time. We he nodded off and it clattered to the floor, he’d awaken and paint what was on ‘his mind’.
Nowadays artists, writers and musicians can use modern technology in the form of Meditation Machines to achieve the same result in a much [...]