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 | 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... 
by ACCAdmin | Apr 15, 2022 | blog
Can Meditation and Creative Ideas Play Well Together? I’ve been getting good ideas about a character in my next novel. He’s the nephew of the protagonist, and has recently moved to her town. I have lots of decisions to make about his situation. It’s a great feeling to...