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Should you write more than one book a year? How many should you write? If you write more than one book, does that automatically mean your writing sucks? Who decides what a "good" book is? How do you define success as an author?

These are some of the questions Kori will discuss on today's show. 

Read the latest Author Earnings Report. There's good news if you're an indie author producing e-books even without an ISBN.

Quote of the day: The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver. - Kiran Desai, award-winning author of  The Inheritance of Loss.

Help us celebrate our 200th episode on October 20th, 2015. Visit Back Porch Writer for more information.

“[Passionate Crusaders] shows that the efforts of an honorable and courageous few can create small steps to change history. This detailed, well-told, and inspiring story will be of value to students of the Holocaust, American history, and human rights.” –From the Foreword by Dr. Leon Stein, Professor Emeritus of History and Education Director Emeritus, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.

Passionate Crusaders tells the gripping story of a few righteous Americans who sought to do what many thought impossible in 1944—save Jews who had not yet been murdered in the Holocaust.

By January 1944, Treasury Department officials Henry Morgenthau, John Pehle, and Josiah DuBois had already convinced President Franklin Roosevelt to create the War Refugee Board, an agency with the authority to provide rescue and relief for Jews and other groups persecuted by the Nazis.

A.D. Starrling is the author of the award-winning action thriller series Seventeen.

Born on the small island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, A.D. came to the UK at the age of twenty to study medicine. After five years of hard graft earning her MD and another five years working all of God’s hours as a Pediatrician, she decided it was time for a change and returned to her first love, writing.

Her thriller series Seventeen combines action, adventure, science, and a dose of the paranormal to make each book an explosive, adrenaline-fueled read.

Her debut novel Soul Meaning (Seventeen Series Book #1) has won and been nominated for several awards, as has the second book in the series. She currently lives in Warwickshire in the West Midlands, where she is busy writing the next installments in the series. She still practises medicine. AD Starrling is her pen name.

Now is the time. Not tomorrow or a week from now. Now is the time to decide who you are, who you want to be, and how to create the roadmap to get you there. This is episode three in our series: How to create the life you want.

Show host and author, Kori D. Miller, discusses how to use mental imagery, a.k.a. visualization, to set and achieve your goals. She'll recap RUMBA and talk a bit about habits. You won't leave without an assignment, so stayed tuned!

Books to read:

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain

On Second Thought by Wray Herbert

Articles to read:

7 Tips for Creating Positive Mental Imagery, Psychology Today, June 18, 2013

YOUR ASSIGNMENT:

Create 2 RUMBA goals to be accomplished by Dec. 31, 2015. Report your success to www.backporchwriter.com to be included in a follow-up blog post.

Reasonable

Understandable

Measureable

Believeable

Achieveable

How to Create the Life You Want, Part 4: Habits: Date TBA Check the Back Porch Writer website for more information.

Max doesn't remember ever not creating a story, pen or no pen. A writer and lover of books since the age of nine, Max first set pen to page as a hobby, constructing stories that were anything but fit for children. Entertaining classmates while simultaneously concerning surrounding adults with blood-ridden tales of gory mysteries and heavy suspense that "just came to mind", Max, with the help of family and the encouraging words of an inspiring fifth grade teacher, continued to develop this gift. 

Little was it known at the time, but said gift would become a lifeline. 

From horrific trauma  in Max's teen years, writing played an instrumental part in the difficult recovery and the  Warrens, Bennetts, and Johnsons, three interconnected families all with issues, mysteries, and secrets that threaten their livelihood and lives,were born. 

Though relatively new to the publishing game, Max reads everything and everyone and relishes the journey, learning something new each day. 

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DUE TO AUDIO DISRUPTIONS THIS EPISODE WAS SHORTENED. LORRAINE WAS INVITED TO CONTUNUE OUR DISCUSSION VIA THE BACK PORCH WRITER BLOG. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING.

Lorraine Pestell was born in London and has lived and worked as an IT professional all over the world, including the UK, several European capitals, the USA and Singapore, before moving to Melbourne, Australia, for the turn of the millennium.  Having suffered from chronic clinical depression since childhood, and later diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after a violent marriage and other challenging events, she turned to creative writing as therapy and to escape from the world.

A passionate advocate for mental health awareness and rational suicide, Lorraine has two main goals for her writing:  first, to inspire fellow sufferers to rise above their symptoms and make a success of their lives; and second, to encourage non-sufferers to tolerate, support and even love those afflicted with mental illness in their quest to live a "normal" life.

The six-part contemporary fiction serial, "A Life Singular", is truly Lorraine's life's work, starting out as an adolescent romance in her early teens.  It has since become six long books exploring the human mind and social justice, wrapped in the universal theme of love and our endless fascination for celebrity.  Parts One to Four are available now, with Part Five due for release in March 2016.

Geoffrey Storm was born and raised in Michigan, in an old, suburban neighborhood he calls "his Shire." There are no sidewalks, and no traffic, just endless lawns, ponds, and trees. It's almost another world entirely. And to him, it is. Inspired by the fantastic worlds seen in Star Wars, Zelda, and Kingdom Hearts, Geoffrey created one of his own in his backyard. An escape from reality. A world he now wishes to share with you.

Geoffrey is a graduate of Michigan State University's English program, with focusses in Creative Writing, Sociology, and Linguistics. Growing up, he never thought he'd be a writer. Maybe an actor, an artist, or even an architect. But now he's put all those dreams, all his knowledge, and all his heart into one idea. One world. One story. Progeny of Gods: Vertuém Destiny

On today's show, Kori discusses how to create goals that are in alignment with your core principles. If you haven't identified your core principles, then listen to Part I. 

A simple tool to use while creating goals is RUMBA.

Realistic

Understandable

Measureable

Believeable

Achieveable

Kori walks you through a few examples of goals that aren't in alignment with your principles, and then discusses one that, if you happen to be an author, probably is. 

Show quotes:

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." - Marcus Aurelius

People will rise to the level of expectation set. (Paraphrasing) - Jaime Escalante

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Join the conversation and discover how you can move in the direction of your goals. In this episode, Kori discusses Benjamin Franklin's 13 virtues, Stephen Covey's 8 principles, and using visualization to begin your journey.

Resources mentioned:

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain

Writers face three big risks when using real people in their writing: DEFAMATION, INVASION OF PRIVACY, AND MISAPPROPRIATION OF THE RIGHT OF PUBLICITY. Yet every fiction writer bases characters on real people. Memoirists and nonfiction writers identify people by name. How can writers use real people in their work without risking a lawsuit? Attorney and writer, Helen Sedwick, will give tips on how to avoid these legal landmines. 

HELEN SEDWICK is the AUTHOR OF SELF-PUBLISHER'S LEGAL HANDBOOK AND COYOTE WINDS 

WEBSITE http://helensedwick.com

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