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Kindle Edition + Free Journal = Winning Combination

Have you got the Kindle Edition of First, Know What You Want yet? You can read it on a Kindle or one of the many Kindle Apps that Amazon supply for your computer or mobile device. It’s a great price … Continue reading

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Listen To Your Longings

Choose your tools carefully but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing-table. Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down The Bones Listen to your longings for they are trying to tell … Continue reading

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Morning Pages | Julia Cameron Live

In order to retrieve your creativity, you need to find it. I ask you to do this by an apparently pointless process I call the morning pages. Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first … Continue reading

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Bring A Pen To Know What You Want

  Yesterday, about 2pm, I sat down with a client who’d booked an initial advice session about starting her own business. She was articulate, well dressed, intelligent and had a great idea. About 5 mins into our chat she looked … Continue reading

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How Cut and Paste Can Help Your Writing

My favourite part of any authors website is when they talk about their tools and writing process, so I hope you’ll forgive the occasional post here about how I made the book. One day in 2010… So there I was, … Continue reading

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