Ten Ways To Free the Creativity Within
1. Who you are is life’s gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift back to life. 2. To be more you, be less you. Do the opposite of what you're used to doing. 3. Your personal record is against yourself and nobody else. 4. Fear is Forgetting Everything’s All Right 5. Put gratitude in your attitude. 6. Live in day-tight compartments. 7. When agitated, pause and breathe deep. 8. Remember the problem in front of you is never as large as the power behind you. 9. Take care of your mind, heart, body and soul each day. 10. You only get to live once and if you do it right, that’s enough.DianaBletter
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Diana Bletter is a writer living in northern Israel. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, tabletmag, Glamour, The Forward, The North American Review, and other publications. Her first book, The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (with photographs by Lori Grinker) was nominated for a National Jewish Book Award. Her novel, A Remarkable Kindness, (HarperCollins) was published in 2015. She is the First Prize Winner of Family Circle Magazine's 2011 Fiction Contest.
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One Word At A Time: NaNoWriMo Wants A Novel Out of YOU!
Get cracking. No excuses this time. Join the 151,657 other writers who have already signed up to try to write a 50,000-word novel in November, sponsored by NaNoWriMo. That’s National Novel Writing Month. I loved doing this last year and … Continue reading
Publisher’s Weekly Book Review: The Lesson of the Book Title
A woman once approached my friend, Maggie, and asked her in a very smug way, “How could are you at accepting advice and criticism?” Maggie shot her a withering look and said, “I don’t do advice and criticism. Only … Continue reading
Posted in Acceptance, self-printing, Self-publishing
Tagged Alaska, Arts, Book, book review, book title, Literary criticism, Literature, Publishers Weekly, publishing, shopping, title
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Novelist Gila Green: “10 Things I’ve Learned After Publishing King of the Class”
Diana: Today I am happy to host Gila Green, author of the novel, King of the Class, published by Now or Never Publishing (www.nonpublishing.com) and is located in Vancouver. Tell us please, how and why you decided to write King … Continue reading
Posted in Self-publishing, Writers, Writing, Your Best Chapter
Tagged Arts, Gila, Israel, Jewish, Jews, marketing, publishing, self-publishing, social media, suggestions, Tools, Writers Resources, writing
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Tool For Tuesday: Be a Poet. Give Yourself Poetic License.
In school you learn how to write: subject, verb, ending, period. The girl went to school. But if you are a poet, you’re given license to mess things up a bit. To school went the girl. Give yourself permission to … Continue reading
Posted in Tool For Tuesday, Your Best Chapter
Tagged Artistic license, Arts, Azar Nafisi, Labor Day, Literature, Poet, Poetry, United States
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Writing From The Heart: Here’s Your Chance To Sell Your Stuff
I’m a big fan of Danielle LaPorte and I’m happy to announce she’s starting a new magazine full of inspiration and insights. If you are twitching to write, here’s your chance…She’s calling for submissions for the first issue of Danielle, … Continue reading
Posted in Self-care
Tagged African American, Arts, Danielle, Danielle LaPorte, mom, Mother's Day, motherhood, Oprah, Poetry, Sadness, The Oprah Winfrey Show
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Knowledge Means Unlearning
In her poweful book, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood talks about a future world and the reeducation of women—forcing them to become stupider, depriving them of the right to read, study, work and learn. That’s a frightening prospect because education … Continue reading
Wanna Be Inspired?
We all live with joys and sorrows and challenges and disappointments and fears and dashed hopes and difficulties. That’s part of membership in the human race. What makes each of us unique is the path we choose to walk. Do … Continue reading
Posted in Being a Hero In Your Life, How to Change Your Life
Tagged Arts, best chapter, determination, don't give up, Family, God, Home, Human, inspiration, mothers, parenting, Thought
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Little Steps Reap Big Rewards
My friend, Joelle, wants to start a fun rock-and-roll dance class for her friends. She wants to play great music and just dance with other women. She doesn’t want to go to a fancy health club where muscular 20-somethings are … Continue reading
Posted in Joelle's Adventures, Self-care
Tagged Arts, Business, Entrepreneur, Health club, Music, People, Seth Godin, Small Business, start small
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The 6 – 1 People You Need In Your Corner
Postcard of CornellUniversityCheerleader1906 Cheerleading (Photo credit: Wikipedia) 6 – 1 Great blog post in Forbes on the 6 People you need in your corner to accomplish your goals. Jessica Hagy said they were: The Instigater, the Cheerleader, the Taskmasker, … Continue reading
Posted in Being a Hero In Your Life, How to Change Your Life, Other people and us, Relationships, Self-care
Tagged Arts, Cheerleader, Doubt, Doubter, Forbes, goals, Indexed, Jessica Hagy, Taskmaster
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Tool for Tuesday: As Carl Bass Says, Don’t Swerve the Bus
On Sunday a friend sent me this link to an article in The New York Times about one of our friends from Cornell . During college, Carl – that’s his name, Carl Bass – could be seen walking around snowy, … Continue reading
