by AnnSheybani | Sep 4, 2017 | Writing
At last, your book manuscript is done. Or so you think. And hope. Please, God, let it be so, you whisper to no one in particular. Unfortunately, you’ve been looking at the same arrangement of words for so long, you don’t know if you’ve created a best seller, or a... by AnnSheybani | Aug 28, 2017 | Reading, Writing
I’m often aghast at some of the thumbnail images that come up in Youtube. I know you can change these things, but I like to think it takes real strength of character to put these things up the way they come. All that being said, you want to pull books off of... by AnnSheybani | Aug 20, 2017 | Life, Writing
What if uncertainty and tension and confrontation were good things? How might your life improve if you used them as tools? If you stopped running away from them and recognized them as fantabulous forces for change? I was giving a creative writing lecture last month... by AnnSheybani | Aug 7, 2017 | Reading, Writing
In 2014, Naval Admiral William H. McRaven gave the University of Texas Austin commencement address. It was a twenty-minute speech that outlined ten principles he’d learned during Naval SEAL training. These principles helped him overcome challenges, not only in his... by AnnSheybani | Jul 24, 2017 | Writing
Walt and I were tooling around in New Hampshire this weekend when we came upon a group of millennials expounding upon this three-year-old Cadillac commercial. Basically, they were disgusted by the mindset, by the whole way of life it seemed to promote, and they... by AnnSheybani | Jul 9, 2017 | Reading, recommendations, Writing
Here’s a note I sent to several of my book writing clients, past and present. I’m putting together a unique reading list: book recommendations from folks who know what a good book looks like, what beautiful/effective writing is, what inspires and impacts....
