Launching A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION

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March 2014 seemed so far off at one point but A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION finally publishes this week. Since it’s my husband’s book I had free rein to try out a number of new things (for me) re: website design, interactive images and links, videos, infographics, and social media platforms like Quora blogs, Slideshare, Pinterest, Spotify, CaféPress,… Continue reading Launching A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION

Advice on writing by Anne Lamott, via Maria Popova

Maria Popova, impresario of BrainPickings.com, truly loves writers and writing. Check out her recent essay Bird by Bird: Anne Lamott’s Timeless Advice on Writing and Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity (“among my10 favorite books on writing,” she writes) which quotes extensively from Lamott’s book about writing, Bird by Bird. Popova concludes with this worthwhile list of related reading: Bird by… Continue reading Advice on writing by Anne Lamott, via Maria Popova

Exercising my reading muscles

I’m linking to a writers’ website I do tech support for because a) there’s lots of fun posts on the site and b) I wrote one of the items, about finding good books in unlikely places. Check it out. 

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Social marketing as a creative endeavor

“When it comes to social media, think self-expression not self promotion,” and 6 other ideas from author Susan M. Cain on how to overcome fear and become more creative. (“Coffee is magic” is one of the other 6).