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Friday Free-for-All: Writing Tools and Your Personal Life

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Writing for the Soul conference, Denver, Colo.

How do the writing tools and skills we’ve discussed this week affect aspects of your life beyond the craft of writing?

The following two questions might help you to consider a response:

What…

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Tools for the Writer’s Life: Day 4

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Writing for the Soul Conference; Denver, Colo.

Tools and tips for handling the financial aspects of writing:

1) Understand taxes: When you receive your first advance, it’s so exciting that you’re tempted to spend the entire thing. Don’t do that!…

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Tools for a Writer’s Life: Day 3

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Professional Tools

Writers need to keep up on the publishing market; a variety of tools help the author to be knowledgeable and “in-the-loop,” as they write and submit projects. These are…

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Tools for a Writer’s Life: Day 2

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Today we’re going to explore the tools a writer needs to master for marketing a book. Marketing has become a huge part of the author’s job both before and after…

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Tools for the Writer’s Life: Day 1

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

As you know, there’s much more to writing these days than just producing a book. Some authors would claim that the writing is the easy part! The hard part of…

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Right Brain vs. Left Brain

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Books & Such Literary Agency Main Office, Rain-soaked Santa Rosa, Calif.

The comments you wrote about outlining on Monday’s blog left me wondering a couple of things. First, I was wondering (and have no way to prove it)…

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Losing Focus: The Importance of a Quiet Writing Time

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Another article I found from the Monitor on Psychology researched the dedicated memory needed for writing. Dr. David Galbraith, PhD, found in his study that distracting writers with spatial memory tasks,…

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Traveling Abroad and Creativity

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Traveling abroad has always been portrayed in literature as a way to refinement. When I think of the dream of traveling to foreign lands, I can’t help but think of…

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Outlines: A Psychological View

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

In college, I minored in Psychology. I find the workings of the mind fascinating and enjoyed all of my Psych. classes. I was doing a little research last week and…

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Best of the Blog 2009: Books that make a difference

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Books & Such main office; Santa Rosa, Calif.

It’s fun to remember what made us who we are today. Well, the good things, at least. I’d rather forget the humiliating moments that probably affected me the most–like the…

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