Archive for April, 2008
« Previous EntriesToday’s Take Action Prompt: Investigate a Story
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Put on your journalist or researchers hat and go out to investigate a story. Think of a topic that interests you. An example could be French cooking - what do you want to know? You can investigate when it started, who made it famous or the best restaurants in your town.
Once you have chosen your [...]
If I Were an Alien
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
~ Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), “Venus on the Half Shell”
Scientists think the possibility for life in the universe does exist. The evidence for other planets that could sustain life increases as our technological advances find more and more planet like objects. In the remake of [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Choose One Goal
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Choose one goal. Make it a big goal. Don’t wimp out now. Or, choose many creative goals you would like fulfilled. Support is available in this monthly column and online course.
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In Celebration of Life
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. ~ Floyd Dell
In America we are tormented by the calendar. We are obsessed with filling in our days with something. I took a week off to do nothing and I did not do it well. I was tired and rest was on the [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Visualize
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Visualize: Image what your life will look like with dreams fulfilled. How do you look? How do you feel? Visualizing helps draw the desired result closer to you.
Write the story of your goal fulfilled. Is it a review of the book/movie/play you finally wrote? Put lots of detail in there. Describe picking up your award. [...]
Fact Finding in Writing
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008We truly live in the information age. It comes at us from every angle. Ads are on buses, cabs and the bodies of those willing to be walking advertisement. The Internet will give you every version of every story. TV network and cable have numerous shows from news, sports, reality shows to self help features. [...]
Product promotion blog day: How to Make $108,142 with E-Books in only 24 hours
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008From time to time… I will post about a product that I have either used or I think might be of value. Part of the success online is having multiple avenues for income. As writers you may have the opportunity to create some income that allows you the chance to write.
I will also add a book review day. I [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Pretend You’re an Interviewer
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Look at the things you have learned and seen. A quiet life is not an empty life - it is full of wishes and dreams that deserve expressing. Begin simply.
Choose a decade. Any one decade that appeals to you. Write a short paragraph for each year in the decade. A brief outline of some your [...]
Making Dreams True
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008“In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.”
~ Unknown
Follow Your Longing
When you’re sitting quietly sipping a cup of tea - pay attention to your idle daydreams. Do you find yourself sighing about leaving for work? What is the wish that comes right after the sigh? [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Every Picture Tells A Story
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Every Picture Tells A Story
Pick a photo. Find one in the newspaper, or magazine. Look through archives of old photos or borrow a friend’s photo album. Using your amazing power of creativity write a short story, 400 to 1000 words. Be wildly inventive; create characters, a plot line. Who are these people, what is [...]