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How To Survive A Good Review
When the first reviews for my most recent novel (Great Sky Woman, Random House 2006) started coming in, my emotions went through the usual roller coaster...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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The Magic Of Balance
Who has not watched intelligent, educated, good-hearted people unable to create the lives they desired, who eventually give up, consumed with despair and anger...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Self Help
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Woody Allen's "Match Point" (2005)
The very first line I ever heard Woody Allen speak was a joke on the Tonight show concerning theological issues, about how, during a divinity test, he cheated by “looking into the soul of the girl sitting next to me...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Entertainment
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Forget About "Talent"!
How is a writer to access her deepest and most powerful wells of creativity How do we tap into our talent, our genius, our greatest potential for success...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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Refining The Golden Hour
In one of the classic personal finance books, “The Richest Man In Babylon,” we are told that the way to wealth is to “pay yourself first...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Self Help
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Tuning Out The "Radio Voice"
It would be impossible to list all of the things people have considered crucial to success in life Honesty, energy, bonding, modeling, control of fear…all are important...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Self Help
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The Three "Questions" Of Science Fiction
There is a great deal of misunderstanding about what that particular branch of literature called “Science Fiction” actually consists of...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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The "Casablanca" Secret
Good writing is often designed around a character who has a distorted vision of himself or of the world...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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Calling All Writers--It's Party Time!
"Do I contradict myself Very well, then, I contradict myself...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Advice
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Four Steps To Tripling Your Energy
Tired Tired of being tired...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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It Was Good Enough For Shakespeare!
One of the core conflicts for creative artists of all kinds is the tug-of-war between art and commerce...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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Seven Secrets Of Highly Creative Writers
The Lifewriting™ approach to your writing career demands a relatively high creative output It isn’t designed to coddle people who nurse a single story for years before sending it out...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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Going With "The Flow"
Flow state, that mysterious mental zone where time and the outside world seem to disappear, is one of the keys to peak performance...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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The Lazy Man's Guide To Great Characterization
One subject arising whenever writers gather to discuss their craft is the mining of life itself for story material...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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The Golden Hour
During a conversation earlier today, a formerly svelt young lady said that she had given up on the idea of exercise, because to have a body worth the trouble, it would take three or four hours a day...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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Four Useful Lies About Writing
Most writing “experts” favor a particular way of looking at plot, and will adhere to it for years or an entire career...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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Fitness In Five Minutes A Day?
What is the minimum amount of exercise needed for health and fitness While it depends on the person, lifestyle, and goals, the general wisdom is that 20-60 minutes per day of cardio pumping, iron lifting, or muscle stretching is necessary...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Using Your Body To Strengthen Your Mind
For thousands of years, physical disciplines like yoga, Tai Chi and Sufi Dancing have been said to increase mental and spiritual powers...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Self Help
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Had A Good I.D.E.A. Lately?
The most elusive quality of excellence, of peak performers worldwide and throughout history is that thing called “Mastery...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Self Help
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Writing Twenty Novels (In Ten Easy Steps!)
During a recent telephone conversation, I mentioned having sent off the last revisions for my twentieth novel, “Great Sky Woman...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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Top Secret! The One-Year Path To Publication
There is a way to virtually guarantee your publication within a single year No, it has nothing to do with self-publication...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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Who Is The "Hero" In The "Hero's Journey"?
During the past thirty years, much has been (rightfully) made of Joseph Campbell’s breakthrough research in cultural anthropology, most famously published in “The Hero With A Thousand Faces...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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No Time For Exercise? Try This!
“Fitness” is an elusive term covering a vast array of attributes: flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, strength, power, balance, coordination, body-fat percentage and more...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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The Billionaire Writer's Secret
During a career spanning twenty-five years of novel, film, and television work, I've two major tools most valuable: the yogic “chakras” for characterization, and Joseph Campbell’s model of the Hero’s Journey for plot structure...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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Turn Writer's Blocks Into Stepping Stones!
Years ago at a presentation at the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program, I promised an audience to teach them to conquer this beast once and for all...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Writing
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Five Things You Don't (And Should!) Know About Stress
Whether it’s called stress management, relaxation training, or its newest incarnation, “Resiliancy,” it seems that the question of healthy response to the stress of daily life is on everyone’s mind...
Author: Steven Barnes - Category: Self Help
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Seven Ways To Connect Your Writing And Your Life
An important question for any artist is: How can I built a career and simultaneously be true to myself...
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