Author Archive: Laurie Buchanan
THE IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Most fiction readers fall in love with a book because of the characters. I’m no exception. As a person who reads an average of seventy-five books per year, it’s my experience that characters are the most important element in a story. Without believable characters, nothing else holds together. Think of Gollum, for instance. There aren’t […]
Fear Provides Us With the Opportunity to Slay Dragons
By Laurie Buchanan, PhD Everyone has fears. Fear of spiders. Fear of heights. Fear of confined spaces. If you’re reading this article, there’s a good chance that you’re a writer—a female writer. There’s an even higher chance that at some point, fear has kept you from writing. Here are a few common writing-related fears: Am […]
The Healing Power of Writing
As a holistic health practitioner, I use a wide variety of healing modalities in my private practice. One of the most effective therapies is therapeutic writing. When integrated as adjunctive therapy in an overall treatment plan, it can serve to promote psychological healing. Most of us write alone. It’s a solitary experience. But in the […]
How to Treat Writing Like a Business
For a moment, think of yourself as a business. That’s the theme in my second book, The Business of Being: Soul Purpose In and Out of the Workplace. And so it is with wordsmithing. How do you approach your writing? Some writers treat their writing as a hobby—a story here, a column there, with a […]
Unleash Your Creative Flair With Blue
Each of us has seven selves: self-preservation, self-gratification, self-definition, self-acceptance, self-expression, self-reflection, and self-knowledge. Writers tend to focus on self-expression. Each self is associated with—and influenced by—a color. Every color has a different wavelength and individual properties, both positive and negative. Color is simply energy; energy made visible. As human beings, color is the only […]
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