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The Big Wide World: Getting your book out there

Unless you are writing a private diary, you ultimately want your writing to go out into the world to educate, entertain or enlighten. This is an exciting time to be writing books as there are many [...]

Overcoming writers block

Overcoming writers block

You have been writing away every night for two hours, inspiration is flowing and you are in the zone. Suddenly, for no reason, you come to a full stop (and I don’t mean the grammatical kind!). [...]

Everyone has a book in them… but how do you get started?

Everyone has a book in them… but how do you get started?

Around 80% of people say that they would like to write a book. But how many actually do? I guess it depends on your motivation. Like any other project writing a book requires planning, hard work [...]

Finding the Gold

Finding the Gold

Carl Jung talked about “going into the dark to find the gold” and this is a good analogy for the creative process. It is often an intense, deeply personal, scary, but ultimately rewarding inner journey. Writing [...]