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Four Fears, Talent & Time – #003 – The Unknown

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 [...]

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Four Fears, Talent & Time – #002 – Failure

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. [...]

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Four Fears, Talent & Time – Part #001 – Ridicule

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

How to Blog a Book

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

Why Ideas Get Copied

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, [...]

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Simple ways to improve your vocabulary

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

Add a little dash to your writing

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 [...]

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Competition Time

If you read the writer’s magazines, there are loads of writing and poetry competitions going on all the time. You could spend your writing career full time just entering them all. For this reason, I don’t often broadcast them.

But then, three unusual ones come along all at once, like buses, I felt I had to [...]

Publishing

Adding Value

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

Creative Writing with Meditation Machines

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 [...]