How personal?

How personal?

How personal should your stories be? This occasionally comes up when I’m working with my coaching clients. For reasons they might not be able to identify, they will feel that their stories are stale, or their endings are safe. (Often, they’re not wrong.) I’ve talked...
Tap into Psyche

Tap into Psyche

WELCOME TO THE ID. The Oxford dictionary defines the id as “the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest.” In a nutshell, the id is all about subconscious instincts, drives, desires. We might not think about them, but...
Change the Outcome

Change the Outcome

You’re building your support network. Now what?   You’ve started to reach out for a support network (if not, re-read last week’s newsletter.) You’re presumably writing. But you’ve done that before, and it didn’t turn out the...
Show, don’t tell… but how?

Show, don’t tell… but how?

When asking for topics, this came up, and it’s one of my favorite things. If you’ve been studying writing for any period of time, you’ve probably gotten this little chestnut of wisdom: show, don’t tell. As it happens, I’ve already blogged...
From a certain point of view…

From a certain point of view…

  First, a basic overview, just in case people are unfamiliar: POV stands for Point of View. This is the perspective from which the story/scene is told. Omniscient POV is told from the perspective of an all-seeing, all-knowing narrator. As a result, a lot of...