“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” ― Jim Morrison.

An exercise you can do to prove that yes, there ARE people waiting to read your future book.

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For this week's Sunday Story Time, two brief excerpts from one of my favorite books on the craft of memoir writing, and one takeaway for YOUR writing.

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"You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.” ― Joss Whedon

This weekend's creative writing assignment! Hint... grab a favorite novel off your bookshelf for this one.

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“Anything you do on the Internet, I want you to be able to do on MySpace. That's the goal and ambition.” -Tom Anderson – founder of MySpace about the new social media site.

A Friday Fact about those seemingly innocent social media notifications lighting up your phone - effect on your brain AND your writing (concentration, focus).

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“Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.” — Travis Bradberry.

Two secrets for finishing your book - with 3 action steps for EACH one (I really want you to finish your book!).

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“Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don’t wake up one morning good at it. You have to work for that.” —Zoe Winters.

The truth about shortcuts.

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“Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.”

-Orson Welles

Some literary tools for keeping the reader on the edge of their seat... or at the very least, not boring them.

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“Finish the day’s writing when you still want to continue.” -Helen Dunmore

A Memoir Monday tip about those life stories you'd rather forget.

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For this week's Sunday Story Time, a lesson on clever versions of exposition and a fun writing study - watching movies!

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“Every time I start a novel, I feel I’ve never written one before.”

-Jonathan Franzen

A creative writing prompt for your weekend - Mad Libs style!

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