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So Good They Can’t Ignore You

One of the hardest things to swallow is getting ignored. You can work for months or even years on a book. Then you put it ...

How to Work Less and Do More

The Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci said, “The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.” But what did he mean by that? He ...

What Writers Can Learn from Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is universally recognized as one of the greatest films of all time. Orson Welles and his collaborators created a masterpiece well ahead of ...

Become a Person of Interest

In the law-enforcement community, the phrase “person of interest” is used to describe someone who may be involved in an ongoing investigation or connected with ...

Simple, Clear, and Direct

Everybody wants to be admired. And why not? That is completely in line with human nature. From the dawn of time, humans have tried to ...

Are You Taking Things Personally?

We writers have a reputation for taking everything personally. Many of us would describe ourselves as introverted artists who are highly sensitive. We tend to ...

The Courage to Share Your Voice

One of the saddest plays ever performed in American theater is “Death of a Salesman.” It was written by Arthur Miller and first performed on ...

How to Write About Your Pain

If you had to pin down one universal emotion that all humans experience, it’s pain. To be human means to suffer. We suffer on a ...