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Author Interviews: Nurturing Creativity

“We are storytellers.  What a powerful gift that is!  We create wonderful, compelling books out of nothing but our own imaginations. With a little hard work and dedication we take a blank page and transform it into beautiful, inspiring stories that touch people’s hearts.  What’s even more amazing is that we do it when we’re stressed, when we’re tired, when we’re grieving, when we’re frightened.  We do it!  That’s the important thing.’ –RaeAnne Thayne

Prolific author RaeAnne Thayne expresses what we all experience–creating beautiful worlds in our imaginations doesn’t make us immune from chaotic, stressful, sometimes heartbreaking realities in our own lives.  And yet as writers, we are, if nothing else, optimistic souls.  We send our work out into the world in hopes it will lift someone’s spirits for a time, even when our own are sometimes heavy–because through that very process of lifting others, we lift ourselves.  “That is why I write,” Thayne says.  [Read more →]

The Writer’s Blog Workshop Series: How To Develop Blog Content

The Writer’s Blog Workshop Series Lessons: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7

Lesson Three:

How do you develop regular, entertaining, informative, and purposeful content for your blog? Content is one of the toughest issues for many blog writers, and concern about creating regular quality content is one of the most frequently mentioned fears preventing some people from even starting a blog. Some days, writing your blog entries will come naturally, almost effortlessly. Other days, you’ll experience blogger’s block. Don’t be scared. It doesn’t mean you’ve run out of things to say. It just means you’re having an off day. Happens to everyone. The wrong answer to this problem is to not blog at all. (Derailing your posting schedule is a sure path to losing your blog traffic.) So how do you beat blogger’s block and post on those difficult days? [Read more →]