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The Sixteen Superpowers of Memoir Writers
Make These Decisions on the Front End, and All Will Go Well for You
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Carolyn Flynn
Eleven Clever Ways to Quiet Your Inner Critic
Your Inner Critic is not invited. This is your writing party, and you’ll write if you want to. Here's how to be mindful, stand firm and live more…
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Carolyn Flynn
Boundless Has a Birthdate!
My memoir about how we are always becoming someone new is arriving with perfect timing -- on a day of rebirth, Winter Solstice, which happens to be my…
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Carolyn Flynn
The Self As the Highway to Our Stories
Notes from a Reluctant Memoirist, Or Why I Keep Getting Pregnant with Memoirs When I’m Really a Fiction Writer.
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Carolyn Flynn
Why the Acknowledgments at the Back of Your Book Are a Gratitude Practice
Yes, you belong to this party! You’ve worked hard to create a literary ecosystem around yourself. Now it’s time to give back. Here’s how to relish…
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Carolyn Flynn
The Merit of the Maker, and the Democracy of Ideas
If you’re writing, you’re publishing. If you’re publishing, you have critics. Here’s how to make peace with that on the front end. Hint: meritocracy is…
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Carolyn Flynn
Why My Book is Nothing But a House of Cards
The true purpose of memoir is to transform your tired old narratives into new meaning. In Boundless, my forthcoming memoir, I find personal liberation…
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Carolyn Flynn
Welcome to My Book! Boundless Has a Cover Now
A book cover starts the conversation you want to have with your reader. It’s a moment of recognition and surprise. Here is my path to a cover becoming…
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Carolyn Flynn
A Job Description for Writers: Imagine. See. Be.
HOW TO CULTIVATE IMAGINATION AS A SUPER-SKILL, AND OTHER NOTES ABOUT AWE, ATTENTION AND FOCUS. PLUS, A DATE WITH YOUR MUSE.
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Carolyn Flynn
Why Writing Your Book Will Change You As Much As It Will Change the World
Invite in the fire of purification with Bealtaine, the Celtic festival of fire, so you can summon the persistence to turn your writing into art
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Carolyn Flynn
The Art of Montage: How to Take Your Readers on a Wild Ride
It’s the sweet spot between scene and summary, so try it! Here's why only 300 words of the twins’ childhood get on the page of my mom memoir, and other…
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Carolyn Flynn
The Sun and I Have a Little Conversation About Autumn
Why presence is the practice of compassion. Morning on the Rio Grande, living in the Dance and the Wonder
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Carolyn Flynn
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