by ACCAdmin | May 16, 2023 | blog
Guest Post: How Do You Choose Your Next Big Writing Idea? Do you play catch with your creative ideas? Image by Junior Ferreira on Unsplash Here’s a new guest post from award-winning children’s author and writing coach Dianne Ochiltree. Dianne walks us through the... 
by ACCAdmin | May 15, 2023 | blog
Know Yourself to Motivate Yourself We all need a loving little push now and then. Can we be both the pusher and the pushee? Can we work with our own strengths and weaknesses? What might that look like? Here are three suggestions. Set a High Bar A writer client was... 
by ACCAdmin | May 1, 2023 | blog
Guest Post: How to Steer Clear of Critique Group Envy Got envy?Image by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash Here’s a new guest post from award-winning children’s author and writing coach Dianne Ochiltree. She takes an honest look at some ways being in a writing critique group... 
by ACCAdmin | Apr 17, 2023 | blog
Trusting the Process Lately, I’ve been waking up with the half-life of a story in my head. The story or scene degrades rapidly in the daylight. It occurred to me to ‘capture’ these story fragments – keep a notepad by the bed, activate the recorder app on my phone – as... 
by ACCAdmin | Mar 15, 2023 | blog
Blah Happens. It’s Part of the Process. Blah Happens. Image by banksadam from Pixabay Meaning, as my coaching mentor Eric Maisel points out, comes and goes. So does pleasure. So does creative satisfaction. This is good to know when I’ve reached a point in a day...