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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 5.15.24

Words for writers from Lee Wyndham

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How Can Sound Impact Your Creative Process?—Guest Post by Briana Hilton

Briana Hilton

If you’ve had to work for endless hours to get an essay, book, or art project completed in time, then you may have aimed to boost focus by listening to music. Far from being a fad, listening to music has been proven in numerous studies to improve learning efficiency.

One study showed that listening to baroque music improved mood, concentration, and productivity—and that’s great news if you are an artist who wishes to meet all your daily creativity goals and you happen to be into Vi...

My Thoughts on… Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron

I usually find myself shying away from memoirs about losing loved ones simply because it brings up those times in my life when I have had to say goodbye to people I loved deeply: my grandmother, my mother, and my father, for example.

Sometimes the pain of that loss can hurt as deeply as if it had just occurred, and I’d rather not go back into that place.

Despite that, I took a chance on reading Delia Ephron’s memoir, Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life.

I knew in advance that it was about the...

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 5.8.24

Words for writers from Stephen King

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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 4/24/24

Words for writers from Shirley Jackson

 

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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 4.17.24

Words for writers from Octavia Butler

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The Writer Life—Guest Post by Dawn Reno Langley

Dawn Reno Langley

I’ve been a writer for so long that I don’t have any idea what it is to not be one.

For me, a writer’s life means spending a lot of time in front of a computer screen trying to imbibe life into words that another person will read and understand. Or use.

Living a writer’s life means often being frustrated that the words I struggle to produce every day stall at the proverbial publisher’s door. In my version of a writer’s life, I’ve experienced thousands of rejections. If I were t...

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 4.10.24

Words for writers from Arthur Schopenhauer

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Thoughts on writing and life for April 2024

Just a few thoughts on why we can’t let our creativity be eclipsed by others or our own self-doubt.

This is an edited excerpt from my April 2024 newsletter, The Writing Life. (Subscribe here.)

You can also listen to it on my Living the Writing Life podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

Photo by Good Free Photos

I want to talk about the eclipse. No, not the recent solar eclipse, but another kind of eclipse: the kind that happens when your creative light gets blocked by someone or something....

Latest deals for my novels

Just wanted to share some special news about my two Midlife Moxie Novels!

I've discounted the FINDING FRAN eBook to $2.99 for a limited time on all retail sites!



I also have a special deal for REINVENTING RITA when you buy the paperback from the BookBaby Bookshop. Use code MOTHERSDAY24 and you get $3 off the retail price! (This deal ends 5/12/24). Here's the link: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/reinv...


By the way, if you subscribe to my newsletter, Nancy's Book News https://www.nancychristie.com/ (watch for the popup on my website), you'll get even more deals on my books!

It's all part of my joint celebration of the one-year birthday for REINVENTING RITA and the release of FINDING FRAN!

Have you read either book? I'd love it if you'd post a review on Goodreads!