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Aug 7, 2020
5 min

It’s Not Magic! Good Writing is the Result of Training

Award-winning, note-worthy writers train daily, love language, and have the persistence to keep going even in the face of rejection.

Melissa Gouty

Jul 29, 2020
3 min

Everyone Dies Famous

Len Joy's Everyone Dies Famous draws on the cherished tradition of small-town literature where lives overlap, circle, and collide daily.

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Focus on the Fun to Win the Writing Race

Melissa Gouty

Jul 29, 2020
3 min

Focus on the Fun to Win the Writing Race

Writers shouldn't forget the fun factor. When the act of writing doesn’t make them happy, it’s impossible to be successful.

5 Fascinating Facts About Books That Will Surprise and Delight You

Melissa Gouty

Jul 29, 2020
5 min

5 Fascinating Facts About Books That Will Surprise and Delight You

Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve by Ben Blatt is crammed with hundreds of fascinating facts about reading and writing. Here are five.

How Compassionate Problem-Solving Leads To Profit-Building

Melissa Gouty

Jul 23, 2020
6 min

How Compassionate Problem-Solving Leads To Profit-Building

Richard Drew's compassionate problem-solving was at the crux of innovation, not the amount of time he spent working on it.

If Bestselling Authors Do It, Shouldn't You?

Melissa Gouty

Jul 23, 2020
4 min

If Bestselling Authors Do It, Shouldn't You?

The semicolon doesn't work for copywriting, but it's a light-saber for word-warriors in essays, articles, and story-telling.

Why Rising to a Challenge Makes You More Creative

Melissa Gouty

Jul 23, 2020
3 min

Why Rising to a Challenge Makes You More Creative

Rising to a challenge, stimulates ideas, strengthens creative muscle, and gives you repeatable, significant results.

Can You Help the Madwoman In the Asylum?

Melissa Gouty

Jul 23, 2020
6 min

Can You Help the Madwoman In the Asylum?

Alex Michaelides relies on the long-standing tradition of female insanity in fiction in his suspense novel, The Silent Patient.

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The 4 Strategies That Launched the Bikini to the Top

Melissa Gouty

Jul 12, 2020
4 min

The 4 Strategies That Launched the Bikini to the Top

The bikini has been popular for 74 years, due to 4 brilliant marketing strategies. You can use these to make your product an iconic success.

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What Happens When You Read Your Parents' Love Letters?

Melissa Gouty

Jul 12, 2020
4 min

What Happens When You Read Your Parents' Love Letters?

Reading my parents’ love letters gave insight into who our parents were before us, an intimate glimpse at the start of a 62-year marriage.

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Create Marginalia in Every Book You Read

Melissa Gouty

Jul 12, 2020
7 min

Create Marginalia in Every Book You Read

Marginalia is the practice of writing in your books, sometimes called literary vandalism. But if the great authors could do it, so could I.

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One Trait You May Not Even Know You Need to Get to the Top

Melissa Gouty

Jul 6, 2020
3 min

One Trait You May Not Even Know You Need to Get to the Top

A Q-Factor is the quality of your idea plus your ability to carry the idea through. A high Q-Factor plus persistence equals success.

Melissa Gouty

Jul 1, 2020
4 min

How China Made Me Appreciate My Freedom

I didn't appreciate my freedom until I traveled to China and heard stories of Tiananmen Square. Now I sing the national anthem proudly.

On Reading Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad in the Aftermath of George Floyd's Death

Melissa Gouty

Jul 1, 2020
3 min

On Reading Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad in the Aftermath of George Floyd's Death

Reading Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad was a different experience now than it would have been before George Floyd's death.

How to Improve on the 12 Traits You Need to Succeed

Melissa Gouty

Jul 1, 2020
6 min

How to Improve on the 12 Traits You Need to Succeed

You've already got the twelve traits you need to succeed. Here's how you can maximize those traits for ultimate success.

Melissa Gouty

Jun 30, 2020
4 min

5 Reasons to Write Your Memoir Now

Rick Bragg shares his reasons for writing memoir. His reasons are my reasons. They're the same as any other writer's considering a memoir.

Melissa Gouty

Jun 22, 2020
3 min

The Ultimate Power of Words on a Page

The history-making May 24th, 2020 issue of The New York Times made headlines of its own because of its focus on the ultimate power of WORDS

4 Ways a Lifetime of Reading Gives You a Competitive Boost

Melissa Gouty

Jun 19, 2020
3 min

4 Ways a Lifetime of Reading Gives You a Competitive Boost

Live smarter, healthier, happier, and longer just by reading books. Luckily, 76% of adult Americans report reading at least one book a year.

The Fascinating History of the Controversial Semicolon

Melissa Gouty

Jun 19, 2020
5 min

The Fascinating History of the Controversial Semicolon

Who knew that a punctuation mark can be controversial and interesting enough that a traditional press bought & published a book about it.

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Melissa Gouty

Jun 17, 2020
5 min

12 Simple Steps to Be More Creative

"The air is full of tines. I just reach up and pick one." Willie Nelson made finding creative ideas sound easy. Artists know that it's not.

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