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Posts Tagged ‘book’
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
 The image of an iceberg is a wonderful metaphor for the creative writing process.
The 10% we see above the surface of the water represents the actual words of the blogs, books and other communications we write. It arises out of the 90% that is largely hidden from view yet without which the iceberg would not exist at all.
The same principle applies to our writing. A large proportion of the work we do as writers is invisible to our readers but greatly determines the quality of our work and the contribution it makes to the world.
The following 5 practices may not be obvious as part of the mix from the outside looking in when we read the latest book from our favourite author.
Yet, having spoken with thousands of highly successful Conscious Writers, and from both personal and professional experience of Conscious Writing in action, these practices come up time and again as the foundation for authentic success.
I invite you to dip into one or all of these practices to the extent it feels right for you at this time and see from your own personal experience what contribution they make to your writing, your authorship, and your life.
Tags: action, alignment, authentic, awareness, blog, book, conscious choice, creative, creative fire, creative process, flow, focus, foundation, intuition, journal, metaphor, nature, on the page, practice, readers, silence, solitude, success, words, Writing
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.
To condense the diffused light of a page of thought
into the luminous flash of a single sentence,
is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself …
Anybody can have ideas –
the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper
on an idea that ought to have been reduced
to one glittering paragraph.”
Mark Twain
Conscious Writers work creatively with first draft thoughts,
and refine them to a condensed final form of words
for maximum authentic impact.
To your conscious & creative success!
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
 The New Year is a fabulous time to inject a fresh burst of energy into your plans for writing and publishing your book.
So here are 7 tips to help you have your best writing year yet:
1. Identify what is genuinely important to you about your writing. So many people today live in the fast lane. As a result, it is easy to lose sight of what really matters.
With your writing, being consciously connected to what is truly important enables you to give yourself permission to prioritise your writing time. This means that you will get your writing done and feel more creatively satisfied as a result.
So start this year by taking time to re-connect to the source of your inspiration to write. Then write about that in your journal to refer back to in the coming months.
2. Clarify your vision. With that connection in place to keep you grounded, the next step is to sharpen your focus on where you are heading. Being clear about your vision will inspire and motivate you to maintain your progress.
One of the most powerful ways of bringing your vision to life is to create a Vision Board. This involves making a collage of images to represent yourself as an author and what you want to achieve with your writing.
If you have already made one, the turn of the year is a wonderful opportunity to add new images which feel appropriate for this year, or make a fresh one to reflect your new ideas for 2013.
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Tags: action, author, book, conscious, conscious choice, conscious creativity, creative, ideas, inspiration, journal, publication, Publishing, vision, Writing, writing process
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Steve Taylor
When we ‘wake up’, our whole lives become an expression of a higher state of consciousness. Awakening transforms our relationships, our values, goals and our perspective of reality. It also often opens us up to a great reservoir of creativity.
In this conversation you will learn:
- Why there is such a strong connection between spiritual awakening and creativity
- Why so many poets and authors have been spiritually awakened, and so many spiritual teachers have also been poets and authors
- The sources of the surface discord of the human mind and how to transcend it
- How to cultivate a state of inner harmony which will naturally give rise to creative expression
- What ‘awakening experiences’ are and how to generate them as a Conscious Writer
Steve Taylor is a lecturer in psychology at Leeds Metropolitan University, and the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality including Back to Sanity and The Meaning. He was recently included (at no. 31) in Mind, Body, Spirit magazine’s list of the ‘100 most spiritually influential living people.’ Eckhart Tolle has described his work as ‘an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet at present’. Steve’s articles and essays have been published in over 40 academic journals, magazines and newspapers, and his work has been featured widely in the UK media. See www.stevenmtaylor.co.uk
Date: Thursday 10th January Time: 16:00 GMT / 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 …
Tags: authentic, author, Awakening to Your True Creative Potential as a Conscious Writer, book, conscious, creative, creative process, creative spirit, inspiration, Steve Taylor, writer, Writing
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Monday, November 12th, 2012
 Being aware of your mindset and how it either helps or hinders your progress as a writer is fundamental to your success as an author.
Many people understand a mindset to be “a collection of thought processes which are characteristic to an individual or a group” (Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus).
However, there is an important ingredient missing from this definition.
Mindset is not just about your thoughts; it is also about your emotions. What you think is crucial but what you feel is even more significant when it comes to writing a book for publication, and indeed with everything you do in life.
Thought and emotion are an immensely powerful combination which can either work for, or against, what you want to achieve with your writing.
Tags: author, book, holistic, journal, mindset, publication, success, writer, Writing
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Thursday, November 1st, 2012
Creating Time to Write with Marney K. Makridakis 
For many writers, time is one of the biggest obstacles to fulfilling their potential. But what if you could mould, craft, and create time to be anything you would like it to be based on the understanding that time is in your hands?
In a dynamic conversation tailored specifically for writers, Marney will introduce her approach to time and explain the practical tools you need to create time for your writing and for enriching the whole spectrum of meaning and purpose in your life. By the end you will understand:
- Why traditional time management techniques often don’t work for writers
- An alternative approach to integrate into our writing – and our whole lives
- The main challenges that writers have with time
- Creative, innovative approaches to address these challenges
- How a new relationship with time can dramatically impact your writing and your life
Marney K. Makridakis is the author of Creating Time: Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life. She founded the Artella online community for creators of all kinds and the print magazine Artella. A popular speaker and workshop leader, she created the ARTbundance approach of self-discovery through art. She lives in Dallas, Texas. Visit her online at www.artellaland.com and www.facebook.com/CreatingTime.
Date: Thursday 8th November Time: 16:00 GMT / 11:00 EST
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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 …
Tags: author, book, Creating Time to Write, creative, creative process, Marney K. Makridakis, publish, publisher, Publishing, support, write, writer, Writing
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012
 I am delighted to introduce this guest post by pioneering philosopher Tim Freke whose cutting-edge work has established his reputation as a scholar and free-thinker. He is the author of many groundbreaking books. Enjoy the following extract from his latest book The Mystery Experience!
I love the experience of writing, especially when the inspiration flows and it feels as if the words are writing themselves. I call this a state of ‘enlivenment’, because I feel so present and alive.
This enlivened state not only transforms my experience of being a writer, it makes the whole of my life a creative adventure, rather than an arduous slog. I find myself in love with my life, rather than just getting on with it. The Mystery Experience explores how we can nurture this ‘deep awake’ state, so that we find ourselves dancing with the ever-changing rhythms of life.
Engaging with the transformational drama of life can be difficult. Yet it’s not all struggle. Far from it. Sometimes life is effortless and magical. It’s easy to experience the WOW of being ‘deep awake’… and we delight in our love affair with life.
In any love affair there are special times when we’re deeply in love and life becomes a seamless flow of miraculous moments. We’re dancing together as separate and not-separate. We intuitively feel what our lover needs from us and give unconditionally. We spontaneously know what to do without thinking. It’s simply natural to be together. We’re completely at ease being ourselves.
In my experience it’s the same with my love affair with life. When I’m deep awake and engaged with my life, I can enter a state of ‘enlivenment’ in which there’s a spontaneous flow to the story. I’m in love with the moment and intuitively know what it’s asking from me.
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Tags: author, book, creative, flow, inspiration, mystery, present, words, Writing
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Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Julia McCutchen interviews Mark Coker
This session is reserved for IACCW Members only.
Over the last four years, Mark Coker’s company Smashwords has helped over 47,000 authors publish more than 139,000 ebook titles. In part two of his two-part session, Mark will reveal the ebook publishing best practices of the most commercially successful authors including:
- Building reader trust
- Time management
- Metadata – what it is and how to use it your advantage
- Leveraging viral catalysts to make your books more discoverable to readers
- How ebook retailers merchandise ebooks to readers
- Creating covers that get noticed
- Exclusivity. Friend or foe?
- Addressing the global market opportunity
- And many more!
Mark Coker is the founder of Smashwords, an ebook publishing and distribution platform serving 45,000 independent authors and publishers around the world. More than 139,000 titles have been released through Smashwords since its founding in 2008. Mark is also the author of the free ebook The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success. For more information, visit www.smashwords.com
Date: Thursday 6th September 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 …
Tags: author, book, ebook, mark coker, publish, publisher, Publishing, self-publishing, writer, Writing
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Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Julia McCutchen interviews Mark Coker
This session is FREE for everyone to enjoy!
In part one of this two-part session, Mark Coker, will provide a primer on ebook publishing, free of jargon and hype. He will provide listeners with the practical knowledge and guidance they need to prepare, publish, market and distribute their masterpieces. Mark will cover:
- Market trends that led to the rise of ebooks
- How indie ebook publishing levels the playing field for all authors
- Why there’s never been a better time to be an author
- Guidance on ebook creation (including formatting and conversion)
- Advice on how to price ebooks
- Distribution and marketing strategies
Date: Thursday 6th September Time: 14:30 BST / 09:30 EST
Part 1 Primer is free to everyone. Click here to register for your FREE place
Tags: author, book, ebook, kindle, mark coker, publish, publisher, Publishing, writer, Writing
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
 I am delighted to introduce this guest post by author and spiritual teacher Amoda Maa Jeevan. Enjoy!
Writing a book, for me, is like giving birth. From the moment of conception to the emergence of the final manuscript, the journey follows an archetypal pattern that transcends any “how to’s” or “techniques”.
It’s by tapping into this universal birthing process – and by the way, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a man or a woman, we all have this impulse embedded in our genetic coding – that we can bypass the voice of ego and get into a zone of authentic expression.
Writing from this deeper place makes a world of difference to how your words meet the page and to how the page is read by your audience.
Voice of Ego or Voice of Authentic Self?
The ego is concerned with self-gratification: its primary motivation is “What can I get?” In other words, it is driven by the need to add to its sense of identity. It doesn’t actually matter whether this identity is a positive one or a negative one, as long as it “pumps up” what it already knows about itself. This is called “staying in the comfort zone”.
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Tags: authentic, authentic voice, author, book, readers
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