Design Your Process
Free Prewriting Worksheet: The 5 Keys to Unlock Prewriting
Why Keys? When I taught Writing at a local private school, here in Moncton, I had to use some clever tricks to keep my students from jumping straight to Drafting. Remember the elephant story? They were trying to eat the whole stinkin’ elephant in one bite, and you and I know that doesn’t work out…
Read MorePrewriting Worksheet: How to Plan your Blog’s Content for a Whole Year – in about 30 Minutes.
Why plan a year ahead? Creating an editorial calendar for your blog – for the whole year – seems like overkill. It seems like it will take a lot of work and be too limiting, right? Wrong. It is the first step in freeing your voice up to hit all of the right notes and really…
Read MoreThe 5 Steps to Make Writing more Free, Fun and Effective
Taking Apart the Writing Process: What does it actually look like? Well…it doesn’t really look like this layout of the insides of a typewriter, but looking at any complicated thing in pieces is the best way to make certain that all of the parts are there – and working well. I talked a little bit…
Read MoreStop, Right Now! This One Thing Will Change the Way You Write Forever:
How is Your Blog Writing Going, Today? Are you sitting in front of your computer, with a cup of coffee in your hand and one of the best seats at Starbucks, only to stare at the blinking cursor on your screen – your fingers paralyzed on the keyboard? Or do you prefer to sit outside in the sun…
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