by Barbara Dee | Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
What’s holding you back from writing a book? It’s something. Something has galloped up alongside and jumped the engineer. Common derailing villains include: Family and friends who mean well, but… Lack of a map: how to plan and write a book? Your own limiting...
by Barbara Dee | Jul 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you’re wondering if you are perfect enough to provide great leadership, you’re on the wrong playing field. That’s not the game that the best leaders play. You do not need to strive for “perfection” because the very act of doing that takes your eye off the ball....
by Barbara Dee | Jul 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have three favorite approaches to starting a fairly lengthy writing project. Note that there is a crucial step prior to any of these three prompts, and that is to create an outline (to be discussed thoroughly in a different article). Once you have an outline, you...
by Barbara Dee | Apr 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dialogue, YES. Dialect, NO. “Wellya dun lit up dat barn wit ya stoopidutee.” Trying to write using phonetic spellings in order to show a speaker’s dialect causes more problems than it’s worth. Even though Mark Twain used it in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it...
by Barbara Dee | Dec 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
The space that a thought takes up is…who the heck knows? As far as we understand, a thought is not tangible, yet everyone agrees there is such a thing! Here are three things I do understand about thoughts. First, thoughts are almost always “automatic.” If you stood...
by Barbara Dee | Dec 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
In A Boston Marathon Journey, Jackie Kellner uses her detailed running logs and personal stories to demonstrate how she, an ordinary woman, creates an extraordinary life, using the simple and natural act of running. The readers’ double-take is that she still does...
