Dealing with Stress, Part 6
The human mind was made to compute answers for the human being, and most of the time it does a pretty good job for most people. When...
Dealing with Stress, Part 5
Stress is defined normally as ‘a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances.’ We’re...
Dealing with Stress, Part 4
Between Immersion, where you and the stress you’re experiencing seem like one giant, painful mass, and Fixed Orbit, in which you have...
Dealing with Stress, Part 3
We’ve been looking at a ladder or pathway out of stress, leading from the depths of anxiety all the way up to total freedom from it. But...
Dealing with Stress Part 2
We are moving forward on the basis that the best approach to dealing with stress is not to plunge into it but to step back from it...
Dealing with Stress, Part 1
As writers and as human beings, we all have to deal with stress. I offer these thoughts and observations as someone who has occupied...
Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts...
How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part Six
Having reached this point with writers, one usually finds that they are capable of writing decent stories which can get attention and...
How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part Five
OK, so we have a rough sketch of your ideal readers, and a fairly good idea of what you want to write about and why you want to write it....