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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
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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
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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
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That Time When I Almost Said the F-word on Public Airwaves
Please take my advice about preparing for a radio or podcast interview. I SWEAR I know what I'm talking about.
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Carolyn Flynn
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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
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The Real Problem You Are Having: Misidentification
Who is left when you are stripped of everything you thought was you? How Boundless became a journey back to the True Self. Plus, practices for coming…
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Carolyn Flynn
Writing memoir? Get a therapist. Now.
It's the best decision you'll ever make. You'll write better, faster and more courageously if you have support. Decision #9 from Sixteen Superpowers…
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Carolyn Flynn
Solstice Child
In honor of the publication of my memoir, Boundless, today, I offer you a contemplation on Winter Solstice. With a little homage to Rainer Maria Rilke…
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Carolyn Flynn
‘I Want You to Be on NPR’
How to hurry up, get ready and be a great media guest. For authors who want to get their book out into the world.
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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
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