Category: How To and Tips
Success Vs Successful
Last year I sat in my daughter’s bedroom with the door closed and locked, headphones in place and computer open. It was the only way to find a quiet, alone space in the middle of the summer to complete a pre-publication interview with an online radio program. I couldn’t be in my room—no—they’d expect that […]
My Story of “Overnight” Success By Kerrie Flanagan
My road to getting a traditional book deal was an overnight success—that took 20 years. When I look back, it seems like yesterday I got a call from an editor interested in publishing my first ever magazine piece and now two decades later, my book, Writer’s Digest Guide to Magazine Article Writing is being released […]
PART II Shooting the Movie, and the Effect on my Career
PART II Shooting the Movie, and the Effect on my Career (Read PART I HERE) The most important effect on my career was what I learned from the process. The next was the WOW factor. On the set in New Orleans, I recognized many of the actors from movies and TV programs and watched them […]
Why Writing Is A Form Of Meditation
I write because writing is how I make sense of my world. When I was eight-years-old and lived in Libya with my parents, I saw my neighbor and his four wives one evening: the wives sat in the back of his pick-up truck and the sheep sat upfront. When I asked why, I was told […]
How to Capitalize On An Unconventional (aka Crazy) Childhood
Long before American television was saturated with CSI and Forensic Files, I was living my own weekly CSI adventure with my family in northern Michigan. My father was a medical examiner for three counties and my mother assisted as his office manager. They ran the office out of our home because the county was underfunded. […]
Cooking And Writing
I’m at one of those spots in my book where I’ve made a wrong turn somewhere, and I don’t quite know what the mistake is. Maybe a character did something wrong. Maybe a scene has veered off-track. Maybe a backstory bit that’s not going to work with the emerging story. Something. And until I figure […]
Reinventing Yourself When Your Career Crumbles
Most industries have their ups and downs. You’re getting into the swing of your job at the bank, you’ve just been promoted, and an economic shift means they close your branch and if you’re lucky, you have to add an hour to your daily commute. If you’re not lucky, you have no job left. But […]
How Training In Artistic Disciplines Is Good For Business
How training in artistic disciplines is good for business contrary to popular belief By Sharon Rowe, author of The Magic of Tiny Business: You Don’t Have to Go Big to Make a Great Living and founder of Eco-Bags Products Writing is like acting is like entrepreneurship. It’s an art, a discipline and, if you choose, […]
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 […]
How Living In Holland Helps Me Write British Books
I’m writing this sprawling on my sofa in my Amsterdam apartment. It’s the morning after the England football team made history, winning a spot in the semi-finals of the World Cup for the first time since I was ten. The streets outside are sunny and the silence is occasionally punctuated with the rickety whine of […]
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