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4 Steps To Writing Down Your Soul

Today, research scientists in psychology, physics, biochemistry, and neurology are providing peeks into what consciousness is and how it works. Their findings give us intriguing clues as to what is actually happening in and through our bodies, minds, and spirits as we roll pen across paper.

Writing Down Your Soul explores some of this research and instructs readers how to access the power and beauty of their own deepest selves.

How I discovered the voice ~or rather, How the voice discovered...

LinkFest ~ Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: Weird Hybrids

WRITING

Scene Structure: The First 3 Things You Need in Your Scene , Live Write Thrive| Tweet

That first paragraph is probably going to be the hardest one to write and polish since it carries the biggest burden in your novel (and the last paragraph in the book carries the second biggest burden). Related content: Making a scene How To Write A Story With A Great Open Ending, Writers Write| Tweet

When you write fiction, you may not always end with a scene or chapter that neatly wraps...

Social Media Is In A Constant State Of Evolution

Social media as a business tool is in a constant state of evolution. What works today isn’t going to be good enough for tomorrow.

The Art of Social Media isthe one essential guide you need to get the most bang for your time, effort, and money.

Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso shares her experience growing alongside social media as an entrepreneur, and how brands should approach these tools in the future.

So I’ve been on social media for as long as I can remember. I think the first social ne...

How To Seize The Essence Of Today

Most people sleepwalk through day-to-day life, passively letting time slip away. Unfortunately, the only thing that can usually wake people up to the intensity of life is impending death. But what if it didn’t have to be that way? 20,000 Days and countingpresents breathtakingly simple strategies and concepts that, once applied, will enable readers to be 100% present and intentional with every passing minute of every day, for the rest of their lives.

Decisions you make right now can change y...

Why You Broke Your New Year’s Resolution

The “Happiness Project” author describes two frequent mistakes people make in setting goals for themselves.

What are some bad first steps to take in pursuing happiness?

Gretchen Rubin:

Well, there’s a couple of mistakes that I think people make with resolutions. First of all, it’s easy to make a resolution that sounds specific, but is not really specific because the thing with resolutions, the more specific you are with yourself; the better able you are to hold yourself accountable. And that...

Asshole Management

In Assholes: A Theory,philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existentially necessary.

Self-understanding

The asshole is deeply bothersome because we find it difficult to even understand what a good, constructive response would be, let alone to actually produce it on the spot. Despite many hard lessons about what did not work, and perhaps even the old success, it takes only a fresh kind of asshole to catch on unawares, throw one o...

The Reasons Why We Write

Often the best art emerges from situations of strife because art, in and of itself, is abouttrying to make sense of the hazy meanings surrounding events. Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates analyzes the reasons why we write while pulling examples from greats such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and James Joyce.

Oates’ most recent book is titled The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age.

Most people I think who write are involved in an attempt to solve a problem of what reall...

How Can I Cultivate A Creative Self?

The Creativity Cureis afive-part Plan to Build Happiness and Alleviate Stress.

What is the Creativity Cure?

The Creativity Cure is a do-it-yourself prescription for happiness and overcoming mild to moderate depression, anxiety, and discontent. It will help you to understand yourself in a deeper way and give you tools for inner satisfaction. The Creativity Cure can help you have a greater number of happy moments and a more satisfying existence by teaching you how to develop Creative Capacity...

3 Rules To Spark Learning

Creative Schools is arevolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by Ken Robinson.

It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of “pseudo-teaching” to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. In a fun and personal talk, Musallam gives 3 rules to spark imagination and learning, and get students excited about how the world works.

In May of 2010, at 35 years old, with a two-year-old at hom...

Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff (And It’s All Small Stuff)

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and It’s All Small Stuff is a book that tells you how to keep from letting the little things in life drive you crazy. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life.

He shares some strategies–things you can start doing today–that will help you respond to life more gracefully. They represent the path of least resistance. Each strategy is simple, yet powerful, and wi...