Day 1 of the FREE 5-Day Challenge to Get a Project Done

  It’s not too late to join the FREE 5-Day Challenge to Get a Project Done. I will be doing a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card at the end of the challenge. It’s easy to be eligible for the drawing. Check out Day One video on my Facebook business page Click here.   […]

William Faulkner Quote About Competing With Yourself

      Nobel laureate William Faulkner believed it was impossible for an author to write a perfect story. He admitted he never was satisfied with his work. It always could be better. In a 1956 interview with Faulkner in The Paris Review, he  said about being a novelist: “Ninety-nine percent talent … ninety-nine percent discipline … […]

Join Paula Chinick As She Looks For A Job

Paula Chinick wrote a life experience for my recent book, Captivate Audiences to Create Loyal Fans. She titled it “Best of Times.” It’s about the loss of her job and looking for a new one. Chinick used scenes and showed body language to reveal emotion. “I recall an ache in my stomach as if a […]

Plot Arc Is Important For Personal Stories

    When you are crafting a life experience that you will include in a talk you’re giving or if you are writing a short story about something that happened to you, do you use the plot arc? Our aim is to build an upward slope from the beginning, peak it at the climax, and […]

The Wizard of Oz and The Hero’s Journey

  In The Wizard of Us by Jean Houston, she analyzes The Wizard of Oz with the Hero’s Journey. Through a mythic lens, we discover the archetypes of mind, heart, and courage represented by the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion. We meet the gatekeepers in the story and the wizard within us. Amazon’s description of […]

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