Archive for May, 2012

What’s New This Week?

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

JMstandingingardenHi Aspiring & Published Authors!

Welcome to this week’s issue of the IACCW Journal, now published on Tuesdays!

Following the completion of our 2012 Symposium recently, it is now time to return to the IACCW Journal Subscribers Prize Draw which was originally announced a few weeks ago.

We decided to postpone it so we could focus on the Symposium, and now we’re re-opening the invitation for you to win up to £50 worth of FREE digital download Products of your choice!

All you have to do is answer one simple question and you will automatically be entered for the competition. Read more in the current IACCW Journal here.

Before we move on from the Symposium completely, we thought you might appreciate reading a summary of some of the key points our Speakers shared in each interview.

So we’ve collated these into today’s article, Symposium Snippets: Wise Words for Writers Part 1 which covers the first 3 Speakers Lynne McTaggart, David Hamilton and Tami Simon. Part 2 will be published in our next issue and cover tips from Tim Freke, Mike Dooley and Jude Currivan.

Enjoy reading and applying all that you learn to your writing and authorship, and we’ll look forward to catching up with you again the week after next.

To your conscious & creative success!

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Symposium Snippets: Wise Words for Writers – Part 1

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

2012Symposium_logoThe IACCW 2012 Symposium brought together an inspiring mix of bestselling authors and international experts who are each making an important contribution to the world from their particular area of expertise.

Conscious and creative writers have an important role to play in this year of major change and transformation.

Authors who have already succeeded in expressing their message with authenticity and impact have a great deal of experience to offer writers who are on their way to doing the same.

Here are some of the key points from the first three of our Symposium Speakers to support you as an author:

Lynne McTaggart, award-winning journalist and author of six cutting edge books that have been translated into 28 languages, spoke to us on Understanding the Bond: the Power of Stories to Change our World

  • Stories engage people emotionally so you need to draw the reader towards the key point(s) of your book in an enjoyable way by telling lots of stories interspersed with your central message.
  • “Show don’t tell” applies to non-fiction as well as fiction.
  • Make sure your background research is solid and build a relationship with your reader through stories.
  • Be prepared to live and breathe your topic in order to write authentically.
  • It’s time for a new world story and writers have a key role in telling that new story in their own way. We need to look deeply, demonstrate what “is”, entertain, and inspire people to positive action.

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IACCW Member Event: The Four Noble Truths for Conscious & Creative Writers

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

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The first of Gail Sher’s Four Noble Truths for writers is: Writers write. Yet despite the best of intentions, many writers struggle to show up to the page each and every day. Intention is essential, and we need to know how to harness its energy to create a daily writing practice – the cornerstone of our writing foundation.

In this interview, Gail Sher will guide us through the framework of her Four Noble Truths for writers and lead us to understand how to:

  • establish our writing environment
  • recognize our authentic writer’s voice
  • troubleshoot obstacles that tend to trip us up
  • work with process as a key to unlocking our true potential
  • cultivate and deepen our relationship with words, their inner silence and stillness

Gail Sher draws from four decades of Buddhist practice and three decades of writing and teaching writing.  In addition to One Continuous Mistake, The Intuitive Writer, and Writing the Fire, she has published over thirty chapbooks of poetry.  She works one-on-one with writers internationally, witnessing their judgment grow increasingly precise and astute.  For more information about Gail and her work with writers, visit her website www.gailsher.com

Date: Thursday 10th May Time: 16:00 BST / 11:00 EST

Want to listen to this teleseminar interview for free but not yet an IACCW member?

Find out about how to do so and discover the other benefits of becoming a member of the International Association of Conscious & Creative Writers (IACCW) by clicking here …

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