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Day 2: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal

Welcome to Day 2 on the journey through The Joy of Writing Journal. Here I share an excerpt from my journey and I hope you will share something about yours—an excerpt, an insight, a challenge, a joy… Journaling helps me derive meaning. In this excerpt, I begin to find meaning in my own resistance to...  Read more

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Day 1: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal

Welcome to Day 1, where I share some excerpts from my journey through The Joy of Writing Journal and invite you to share an excerpt or a response to the experience. Join the community—read and comment/share! Sometimes writing for me is pure elation, but in today’s exercise I struggled with my inner critic. Here’s an...  Read more

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Day 0: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal

Welcome to the journey of working through the 30 days of The Joy of Writing Journal. Get ready for fun, insights, playfulness and creative breakthroughs! If you want to get October’s super-brief daily email reminders to help you form your daily journaling habit, just purchase your copy of The Joy of Writing Journal on Amazon...  Read more

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How to Start Journaling: October Journaling Adventure

Perhaps you’ve heard about the many benefits of journaling—from creative expression to health and wellness to finding creative solutions to life’s challenges and much more. But do you wonder how to start journaling? Or how to return to journaling? Or how to enrich your journaling practice? How to Start Journaling Many people aren’t quite sure...  Read more

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Journaling: Writing Through Resistance

This summer I worked through the prompts in my upcoming book, The Joy of Writing Journal. Many times it flowed and sometimes I met internal resistance. You see, ocassionally, I made my list as per the instructions (the ones I wrote for my readers!) in the exercise but then I felt resistance or even grouchy...  Read more

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When is it Time to Share My Writing? When to Hire an Editor?

It’s important to know when to hire an editor and when to share writing. You can wait too long or you can also share too soon! Sometimes people feel nervous when it comes time to share writing with me. They want to polish or perfect it before sending. And they wait and wait and wait....  Read more

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Writing About Trauma: Are You Protecting Readers from the Truth?

The other day, a client talked about how she’s written little pieces of her memoir, but that she felt blocked because she didn’t want to hurt the family members of her abuser by writing about the trauma. Two decades after the abuse, she met with her abuser to tell him how the abuse had impacted...  Read more

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Memoir Writing Advice to a Young and Hopeful Writer

Javier (not his real name) contacted me for memoir writing advice because he had a story to tell. And he wasn’t sure he knew how to tell it.   This book will be about navigating my life as a black, gay man. It will address my coming out experiences, gay stereotypes, getting involved with men...  Read more

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Know Your Readers

As I get ready to launch my book, The Joy of Writing Journal, on Sept. 22, I’ve been thinking deeply about my readers—”Who is this journal for?” and “What can it do for them?” Much like you may wonder about the readers of your own book. In a way, it seems like a simple question....  Read more

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12 Blogging Tips for Authors and Aspiring Authors

I’d like to share 12 blogging tips for authors, because blogging was one of the smartest and best things I ever did for my business as a book coach and author. In this post you’ll learn the why, how, what, when and more, in order to grow your community and write a book your readers...  Read more

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