A book could be just a list away.  This week's exercise encourages you to start a simple list in your writing notebook:  possible topics...

How do you use your right brain as a book writer?  The right brain brings a writer ideas for theme, emotion, and deeper levels of meaning in...

A blog reader from Minnesota sent in this great link to an interview with author Ethan Canin ( America, America )--where he talks about his ...

It's back-to-school time. I can smell those sharpened pencils. Are you set up for getting back to your book? This week, think about what...

Nancy Okerlund, of The Introvert Enegizer newsletter, studies how the introvert brain works--and how writers who are introverts often feel b...

To access theme in your book, you may need to talk with the nonlinear side of your brain, sometimes called the right brain. So do something...

List your most important life values (refer to Carol Bly's wonderful book, The Passionate, Accurate Story, for more information on this...

When Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith said, “There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein,” he was talkin...

A writing friend sent me this great video. Watch it for a break from your book today! It's sure to get you moving. Click here , get on y...

This exercise only takes 10 minutes. Try it right now. First, list 5 reasons you don't take time for your writing. Anything that com...