Tag: authors
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How to Raise a Genius
Went to the Jelly Belly Factory on a field trip with my daughter’s 2nd grade class. The young man assigned to escort us on the tour misquoted a brilliant saying by one of my favorite icons. The guide delivered his canned speech, spoke of how long and complex the process to make even one single […]
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Lost Writer Seeks to be Found
I keep putting marketing projects in front of me to avoid fine writing. Writing fiction is HARD. It’s the second hardest thing I’ve ever done beyond raising my kids, and husband. Marketing, helping companies, especially startups grow is engaging. Working with entrepreneurs, especially engineers, to find their targets, and create campaigns that sell their stuff […]
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Making It With Your Muse
How do you get good at anything? Practice. How do you get great? Obsession—Practice most all the time. Pick any famous author, artist, musician, and they’ll all have obsession in common. And while we, the public, enjoy the fruits of their creative labor, those closest to these individuals were/are generally left wanting. Charles Schulz, creator of the […]
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Storytelling is Truth—Tweaked
Way before writing novels, I was a storyteller. As a little kid, before I could write, I used to come to breakfast and recount tales of going to Disneyland and other elaborate adventures I had during the night with my stuffed dog, Checkers. The purpose was less to entertain then to garner my mother’s attention, […]