Bring Your Book to Life: How It’s Done with Lisa Tener
Ginger: I know that you are offering a free call for people to find out more about writing their book and about writing itself and about your upcoming class. Can you tell me who would benefit most from listening to the call? Lisa: Birth Your Book in 2013: 5 Keys to Write Your Bestseller At Last is for people who are writing nonfiction, particularly self-help, how-to or memoir, and who are either at the very beginning of the book-writing process or who started and got stuck and want to move...
Read MoreNovel Construction: Setting
I was recently giving a talk about writing novels and memoirs and I said, not facetiously, the way to start is to start. I mean that–you just have to get your butt into the chair and crank it out. The worst writers do it this way–and the best ones do too. I often rely mentally on my inner Anne Lamott who counsels me via her great book Bird by Bird that you just do it one word, one paragraph at a time–and it will always be or seem to be crud. Just do it. Then I counseled to...
Read MoreA Kick A** Interview with Patricia Tomasi, Author of Kick Ass Dreams
I worked with Patricia Tomasi last summer on the book that is going to be published this month. It is a great, funny, life-changing book with so much heart and hope. I hope that you’ll consider supporting Patricia’s event and also will treat yourself to this book–It is full of wonderful surprises! I wanted to know all about the book so I put on my interviewer’s hate and asked Patricia a few pre-launch questions: What made you want to write a book? Patricia: I never...
Read MoreFeel Free to Use Metaphor in Fiction
Metaphor–you’ve heard about it in high school English, middle school if you went to private school. Metaphor is a trope–or use of language that puts two unlike things together. The other well-known trope, though you may not have known it was one, is simile, e.g. “My love is like a red, red rose.” Metaphor is that without the like: My love is a red rose. There are other tropes–synecdoche is one of my favorites, wherein a part stands for the whole as the...
Read MoreI love coaching!
I’m sure I should say something really profound here about my life as a writing coach, but what I really want to say is that I’m just so grateful to all the great people I’ve been working with (Kevin Hanrahan, Kristen Shaw, Patricia Tomasi, Hodan Hussein, Cam Gott are the ones I know have websites) and so grateful to the smart, generous, marketing-savvy master coach Lisa Tener. This is a picture my brother snapped of me one night after we’d met for dinner at the local...
Read MoreWriting: a Reality Check
No one made it to the Olympics without a coach. If you want to go somewhere new, you’re going to have to chart some new territory. You can try that on your own, or you can get some expert help. These sound like some seriously self-serving concepts–I am a coach, after all–and I sincerely hope you’ll consider hiring me as yours. But the point of this blog is not so much to get you to hire me as to give you the information you might need to help you decide. No one is born...
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