Success Habits: Here are a Daily 5 for You
These 5 tips are found in the traits and behaviors of many successful people. Adopt and practice them yourself to move closer to your goals.
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Your Perfect Morning – What Does It Look Like?
Welcome Back to Day 2 of my 7-Day Morning Makeover Challenge. Here is my question for you this morning. What’s most important to you? What is the one thing you really want to do on a daily basis that would make a big difference, but you just can’t seem to find the time for? In…
Fear of Writing? Manage Your Fears. Watch the Video.
Do you have a fear of writing? Is your fear of failure – or success – keeping you from the writing career of your dreams? Don’t let it! Learn how to manage your fears. Watch this Morning Nudge video: Subscribe to The Morning Nudge on youtube.com for new videos! Learn about journaling and confidence –…
Books about Writing – A Dozen Gifts for Writers
It’s always a great time to read books about writing and here are some longtime favorites to choose from. These make great gifts for the writer(s) on your gift list and they also make great gifts for yourself if you’re a writer. Some of these you may have read before. If so, reread them to…
Meet Joan Leotta
Joan Leotta has been playing with words since childhood. She is a poet, essayist, journalist, playwright, and author of several books both fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. Her latest three are Secrets of the Heart a romance set in Rome and civil war Wilmington NC, Simply a Smile, a collection of short stories…
Asian Quotes as Creative Writing Prompts
Asian Quotes – Creative Writing Prompts from Peggy Dallmann Asian quotes may spark an idea for your own writing. Sometimes, while reading fiction or nonfiction, I will read a phrase, a sentence, or a quote from a famous person. I feel compelled to record those words immediately into a computer folder entitled “Inspirational Quotes.” Many…
What to Do with Tangle Patterns – What is Zentangle?
Well, the weekend went by in a blur. Yesterday we had so much to do, we didn’t get out to the beach until late evening. Still, the water and the sky were so beautiful as the sun was setting. Take a look. We always say that you just never know what you’re going to see…
So Why is Taylor Swift Such a Terrific Marketer?
Find out why Taylor Swift is such a terrific marketer in this post from Carolyn Howard-Johnson and see how this information relates to book marketing.
Quick Writing Prompts – One for Each Day This Week.
Here are more quick writing prompts from Joan Leotta – one for each day this week. Use just one prompt a day to every a new story every day this week. Try it! 1. You walk out of the house and see a robin on your lawn. You decide to interrupt your work and take…
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NSTA and CBC Unveil 2016 List of Top Science Trade Books for K-12 Students
ARLINGTON, Va.—November 13, 2015 — The National Science Teachers Association and the Children’s Book Council have released their annual list of “Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12: 2016.” The list represents the best trade books published in 2015 for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. “The books on the Outstanding Science Trade Books list…
Can Parents Use Video Games As Lessons In Life?
Engineer, Parent & Former School Teacher Crafts Novel Method For Teachable Moments In the history of child development, the widespread participation in the use of video games is not only a relatively new phenomenon, but a widespread one, too. Ninety-seven percent of children and adolescents in the United States play at least one hour per…
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