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Your Love Affair With Your Muse
How's your love affair with your Muse? That's right, your Muse. Your creative source. Your inspiration for all the kooky, creative things you do. The voice that whispers, “Hey, why don't you try encaustic painting? That looks like fun!” Or maybe your vo
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Where Do You Find The Time?
I am often asked, “How do you it? Where do you find the time to work a full time job and also write books?” The answer is simple. I make the time. However simple the answer might be, actually doing it can be quite difficult. I get up at 5:15 every mornin
Tags: Writing, Muse, Published Author, Writing Books, Writing
The Phases Of The Writer's Life
Over the course of my writing life, I have noticed that other writers and I cycle through a series of steps on our path toward maturity as a writer. When people come to me for coaching, they often do not know where they are on the path and what they need
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No Time: Your Best Fake Excuse To Avoid Writing
After a full day of work, family and life, you fall into bed exhausted. Mentally ticking off your to-do list, you cycle through shopping lists, phone calls, appointments, feeling good about what you have gotten done, until you get to the thing you really
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Liaison With My Erotic Muse
Writing erotic romance is certainly a sexual liaison with my muse. Anticipation starts the juices flowing, and then imagination takes over. What is hotter than the expectation of tingles and whispers, caresses and sighs, and finally, skin against skin. Th
Freefall - A Writing Method
In January, 2005, six months before Kensington bought Passion, I took a writing course. A friend introduced me to a writing technique called Freefall. Rather than my trying to explain what she told me, I will quote directly from the Freefall website: FR
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Carving Out A Home Writing Retreat
The phone rings. The laundry pleads to be stuffed, cycled, dried and folded. Chaos reigns in the kitchen, e-mails queue for attention. Our lives are at once mundane and undeniably seductive at the same time. When we sit down to write at home, suddenly eve
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How To Plan A Great Vacation
Planning a vacation can be a very stressful, especially when you are going someplace you have never visited before. So I have written my secrets to the perfect vacation.
Tags: Vacation, Holidays, Family Vacation, Travel, Holland, Amsterdam, Museums, Hotels, Writing-speaking
Art Theft: Most Famous Cases In History
Review of the most famous cases of art thefts in history including the stealing of the Mona Lisa and The Scream.
Tags: Art Theft, Art Thefts, Art Fakers, Art, Mona Lisa, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Art Thieves, Edvard Munch, The Scream, Arts, Painting, Paintings, Drawing, Writing-speaking
First China Auto Museum Opening In September
China is just about to open its very first automobile museum this middle of September. And the Auto Collections from the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino here in the United States is going to be part of this significant event.
Tags: Auto Parts, Engine Parts, Auto Lights, Auto Museum, Accessories, Cars
How To Plan A Great Vacation
Planning a vacation can be a very stressful, especially when you are going someplace you have never visited before. So I have written my secrets to the perfect vacation.
Tags: Vacation, Holidays, Family Vacation, Travel, Holland, Amsterdam, Museums, Hotels, Vehicles
Art Theft: Most Famous Cases In History
Review of the most famous cases of art thefts in history including the stealing of the Mona Lisa and The Scream.
Tags: Art Theft, Art Thefts, Art Fakers, Art, Mona Lisa, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Art Thieves, Edvard Munch, The Scream, Arts, Painting, Paintings, Drawing, Vehicles
Visit Texas It's Much More Then Just Cows And Oil
Going to Texas but overwhelmed at all the things Texas has to do? Here I have listed a few of the things I did when my family and I went to Texas Last year. We had a great time and will definitely go back again.
Tags: Texas, Vacation, Travel, Lone Star State, Amusement Park, Theme Park, Rodio, Dude Ranch, Cowboy, Vacations
Visit Some Great Museums While You Are In Orlando
Orlando is rightly famous for Disney World and the other exciting theme parks in the region, but it also has some fine museums and cultural centers that can give you a nice change of pace and culturally enrich your vacation. Here is a brief guide to some
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Universal Studios: Get Into The Action Of Your Favorite Movies
The whole world is captivated by the movies coming out of the major American film studios, but it is one thing to see the movies and another thing to get behind the scenes, find out how they were made and go on rides that put you right into the midst of t
Tags: Theme Parks, Orlando, Florida. Universal Studios, Amusement Parks, Vacations