creative nonfiction book writing
Book Writing

Self-Help Writing Prompts

Fiction writers have a whole host of writing prompt blogs and crazy Reddit posts, but people writing their first self-help book can find few resources to be a catalyst for their stories. Rather than simple imagination, for the self-development writer, it’s more memories that we want to access… or finding others’ quotes and stories to back up what we’re saying.  Examples of Writing Prompts Look at some of my writing ideas from past books: An idea about happiness and our outlook came one day when I observed the primary school kids leaving school, running, skipping, gleeful to be free… when my daughter talks about learning music, her face lights up. Why don’t adults run, skip and smile when they come out of their workplace? (from Create Your New Life of Abundance) Does something irk you?  In How to Start a…
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Book Writing

Writing a Book in Australia, in a Crisis

Like many who rely on the wonderful authors of this world, I need optimistic books right now! So this post will talk about what you can write a book about during this Coronavirus crisis, that also won’t date too much. If you like writing non-fiction, the topics I am brainstorming here for 2020 are: Career transitions. What a great time to write about skilling up for a new career or home-based business, and as a bonus, discussing the technologies many of us need in modern business life. I wrote How to Start a Freelance Business. It is simple information, but just what someone starting up needs to consider, which they may not have done. Next wave of Lifestyle Books: fresh ideas. We’ve had all the turmeric latte/cacao cookbook ideas we can handle and a plethora of health or yoga books;…
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Book Writing, Updates

Sharing Your Creative Side

Part of the Creative Ways with Money philosophy is knowing your own strengths, skills and resources and then finding creative new ways to share them with others. In the book, we do this through finding our life’s purpose (our Ikigai), knowing what’s real and what’s not, and applying our strengths to business or online income streams. It seems everything is changing at the moment and many of us can’t figure out what to do with our time. Remember that we don’t just create in a vacuum. We must look at what is real right now and set an intention for ourselves. Here is one personal development author’s take on it: “Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart truly desires must come to…
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Book Editing, Book Writing

A Writing Coach is Your Accountability Partner

Just having a partner to share your goals with increases the likelihood that you will achieve them. It gets better… when you hire a good writing coach, getting to your goal is even more probable. Marie Forleo says having a partner takes your chances to up around 85%.While the writing and research work is up to you, it’s been said by a known authority that if a writer makes their writing goals public, they will be more likely to achieve those goals.A lot of us spend our spare time without thought to our big goals. In fact, we could do plenty of writing if we just get off our darn phones! That is, get off scrolling through news feeds–and allow a modicum of time to research real news stories and the odd inspiring article.There’s also a lot to be said…
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Book Writing, Personal finance and scams

Want a rich retirement? You need creative money ideas!

There’s nothing that makes me madder than some journalist rabbiting on about sacrificing lots of salary into superannuation. Well, that is all very well if, a) you are employed; b) your employer is amenable to that; and c) you make enough money that you could easily miss 5 or 10 percent of it. But what about all of us in business? What about those retiring now?I don’t expect that people earning $120,000+ per year are going to be that interested in my 2020 book, Creative Ways with Money, and that’s absolutely fine. I’m writing it for people who are trying to manage on an average income, have fun, but also creatively earn more. These are the battlers who get caught in the headlights of spruikers.These are the smart ones, who are servicing others, building businesses, and rarely put much into…
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Book Writing, Personal finance and scams

Setting Goals: Are you Doing it the Right Way?

If you take the step of setting a big goal that excites you, you’ll at least be putting it into your vision. But some stab at a goal without really considering all the factors. Are they aiming correctly?In 2003, I had two goals:  meet a man and write a book. I had a list of desired attributes and my write a book goal was written on a piece of paper, taped to the wall. Since dating and this blog have little in common, let’s quickly move to the book goal. What happened?By 2005 I was madly writing it. The resulting book was tiny; just 46 pages, but the underlying goal motivated me to bumble along the path. I wanted to finish and quickly; I had our baby crawling around, getting into things!  With a cover by a local designer, in…
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