Five Ways to Make Every Minute Count
No person on earth has more than 24 hours in a day. No one can concoct a magic potion to conjure extra time for increased productivity. We a
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 16, 2020
- 3 min
How to Easily Triple Your Reading Time
How much time do you spend reading each day? 15 minutes? 30 minutes? How much time would you like to have in the company of a book? No matte
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 15, 2020
- 5 min
Unconditional Love Lessons in a Bookstore
This man was caring for his wife “through better or worse. In sickness and health.” He was performing acts of unbelievable love every day. D
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 10, 2020
- 3 min
How to Ignite Your Writing Fire
If you don’t know Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, go out and buy a copy today. If you do know it, you’ll be smiling becau
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 10, 2020
- 4 min
How a Poet Improved My Writing, My World, and My Life
Maya Angelou entered from the back of a big conference room. Well before I could see her, I heard her, a booming, mellifluous, voice with ju
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 5, 2020
- 3 min
How to Boost Your Career and Improve Your Life
A mentor will boost your career and improve your life, and they're easy to find because they come in all shapes and sizes. Mentors help. All
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 4, 2020
- 3 min
How to Be a Committee of Joy: 3 Life-Affirming Activities That Increase Happiness
Being joyful is determined partly by genetics. But you can choose to bring joy to others by practicing gratitude, showing compassion, and li
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 4, 2020
- 6 min
How to Sell 60 Million Books in Spite of the Critics
The critics hated The Bridges of Madison County, but the tactics Robert James Waller used in his novel made the readers love it. 60 million
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 3, 2020
- 4 min
What Can a Child Really Know of Death?
I was too young to understand a tragic death at the age of 7. It was only as an adult I experienced delayed grief for my first lost love.
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 2, 2020
- 4 min
How A Man Called Ove Changes from Bitter to Lovable
Fredrik Backman uses three tactics to change a bitter, old curmudgeon into a lovable man in A Man Called Ove, the best-selling novel.
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 2, 2020
- 4 min
How to Concoct Powerful Descriptions with Smell
Of the five senses, smell has the most powerful connection to memory and emotion. Writers should use it to create strong descriptions.
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Melissa Gouty
- Feb 25, 2020
- 4 min
Truth-Telling in the World of Fiction
Julie Orringer's novel dramatizes the life of Varian Fry, who helped get Jewish artists and writers out of occupied France. Much is fiction.
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Melissa Gouty
- Feb 21, 2020
- 3 min
How to Be More Creative: What To Do When Your Words Misbehave
The most creative writing happens when you follow misbehaving words when they break away from your plan. Mary Oliver's poem "The Beast" is a
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Melissa Gouty
- Feb 5, 2020
- 6 min
How Many Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels Have You Read?
What are the requirements for winning a Pulitzer prize in fiction, and how many have you read over the last 20 years? Your score might surpr
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Melissa Gouty
- Jan 30, 2020
- 5 min
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger Is No Ordinary Novel
Aspiring writers can learn from the techniques used by Krueger in the acclaimed novel, Ordinary Grace.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jan 30, 2020
- 4 min
Why Read a Book with an Unlikable Character?
why spend time reading a book when you dislike the main character? Consider this.The most unlikeable character impacts you the most. I came
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Melissa Gouty
- Jan 22, 2020
- 3 min
Walt Whitman and National Celebrate Life Day
Today is National “Celebrate Life” Day, and I’m thinking of Walt Whitman. As much as I love him — and while I understand that it’s important
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Melissa Gouty
- Jan 14, 2020
- 8 min
7 Ways Keeping a Book Journal Will Improve Your Writing
Unless you’re blessed with a photographic memory, you don’t remember each and every book you read. A book journal will help with that.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jan 12, 2020
- 4 min
The Ecstasy of Blogging
Years in academia, formally trained as a writer, I was restricted by rules and expectations. Then I found ecstasy in blogging.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jan 12, 2020
- 4 min
Winter in the Poetry of Robert Frost
The poetry of Robert Frost shows the impact of winter on humanity - especially older men.
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