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By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

The Key to Writing a Transformational Book

Have you ever wanted to write a book? Have you ever thought - or said: "I have a book in me." Or, "If I could just write a book about the life events that transformed my life, I believe it could change a lot of other people's lives, too." Or, “I have gained so much knowledge about transformation that I want to write a book to share it to help others.” Or, “I know that to take my professional life as a coach or speaker or healing practitioner to the next level, I need to write a book about the transformational subject matter that is my expertise.”

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

The Secret to Shifting Writing Overwhelm into Writing Ease

When you sit down to start writing a book, are you able to jump right in and catch the stream or words or does the whole task feel daunting? Or, let’s say you’ve already written part of the book and need to reengage with it after a hiatus from writing. Does the prospect bring joy or do you find yourself avoiding it? In either case, do you feel overwhelmed or downright panicky about beginning (again), doubting you can complete what you have begun? Most writers have probably felt at least some combination of those extremes.

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

Four Key Steps to Begin Your Writing Day

Each day as I sit down to write, I renew my “yes” to writing and to serve love in my writing. To support this choice to have my writing make a positive difference, I make four conscious choices. These allow me to begin my writing in alignment with all I have learned on a path of transformation, spiritual evolution, and healing mind, body and spirit. They integrate the lessons and gifts I have received in all my life odysseys and from spiritual teachers and now apply to my writing, too. Here are the four key steps I take to begin each writing day:

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,877 views

By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

Three Ways to Answer the Call to Write a Book

If you are at all called to write a book, you may be surprised to learn that whether you have writing experience or not, think you have talent or not, know how to write in a particular form or genre or not, consider your idea is of interest to anyone or not, feel blocked or not does not matter. Whether or not you feel terrified at the prospect of writing a book about your deepest thoughts, vulnerabilities or your greatest strengths does not matter.

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,632 views

By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

Three Quick Creative Tools to Transform Self Doubt to Confidence to Write Your Book

Self-doubt. Most writers - even established authors - face it at some point as they write a book - then repeat visit it throughout their writing jou eys. You know this voice. It may whisper or rant words like: -That is too vulnerable or difficult for me to write. -My writing is not good enough to complete a book. Not universal enough. No one is interested in my perspective, in my teeny-tiny story. My story is too ordinary. Too extraordinary. Too shallow. Too challenging. Too controversial. Not controversial enough. No one will believe it.

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,436 views

By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

How to Beat the Fear of Writing a Book: 8 Simple Steps to Writing Joy

Has fear ever stopped your writing - or publishing a book you want to write- or sucked the joy from your writing day? It has for me - temporarily. You name the book writing fear. I - and most writers and authors I know have experienced it at one time or another.

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,390 views

By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

Called to Write a Memoir? 5 Reasons Writing a Memoir Is Worth the Time and Effort

A memoir writer in one of my workshops recently asked me, “Was writing a memoir worth the time and effort? “Yes,” I answered, without hesitation – which surprised me. Because where writing a memoir is conce ed, friends and family will attest, I had been known to wax not so poetic over the years about the challenges of writing a memoir about a healing journey through chronic illness and childhood abuse issues, then going public with it. But I am more than aware of and grateful for the gifts writing, publishing and publicizing a memoir have brought me.

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,389 views

By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

Need a Safe Space to Write a Book? 5 Great Tips to Create a Haven to Write a Book

If you want to write a book, chances are you know that safety plus writing are two words that don't rest side by side in your mind as you sit down to write that book – or anything else. Writing a book is about taking risks, trashing the comfort zone, escaping boundaries and letting out the words that need releasing. Writing a book goes against the very nature we have to survive at all costs, to protect ourselves, to feel comfortable, find our safe spot in what often seems like an unsafe world.

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,379 views

By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

How Long Does it Take To Write A Book? The Lure of the Book in a Week (or Month) Club

Okay, I have listened to one too many webinars of late about how you can write a book in a weekend. Or two weeks. Or, if you need to tackle, write and polish a book on a deep subject, you will need to take a "really long time" to write that book- 3 months - "part time" of course in between your actual career and life. Being a good writer, these proselytizers of the faith of speed writing, insist, does not matter. Any editor, coach or ghost writer can clean it up for you. It's the attitude this implies. Yuck. Like writing is the necessary mess the housekeeping staff can clean up.r

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,368 views

By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

Three Easy Steps to Authentic, Fearless Writing for Your Book

You do not have to wait for the muse to inspire authentic, fearless writing in your book. Coax it into being with three quick steps: 1. Release judgment. In writing the draft of your book, consider all ideas acceptable. To be a fearless writer, do not censor your writing or ponder whether or not what you have to write is "important enough" or "deep enough." If your "self-editor" has its say too soon, you limit your book's potential.

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,355 views

By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

Does Writing a Book Take Courage?

While writing a book about my own journey to heal childhood abuse issues and chronic illness, I attended a talk by Dorothy Allison, author of the powerful novel, Bastard out of Carolina, based on her own childhood of abuse. Afterward, I asked, "How did you find the courage to write that novel?" "I didn't," she answered, grinning widely. "It wasn't courage that helped me write the novel. It was stubbornness - and persistence. " Then, she wished me luck with my writing.

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,325 views

By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

Want to Write a Book? The Best Two Word Writing Advice

What is the best advice you can hear to help you write a book? Two words: Show up. The more you show up to write your book, the better chance you will not only write a book, but complete and publish it, too. Here is its value. Showing up to write a book – whether you do it in systematic spurts or daily – reveals you take yourself seriously and give to yourself lovingly as a writer.

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,299 views

By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

The Secret to Creating Time To Write A Book

Are you not writing your book because you cannot find the time? Or do you insist you need a longer amount of time than you have to give your subject matter the attention it needs. "I can't write a book unless I have two or three hours a day, five days a week to devote to it." Right. That's a surefire road to book writing failure. Would you force yourself to run a two hour marathon when you haven't even jogged 1/2 a mile yet? Setting writing expectations that are too high is the same kind of recipe for disaster.

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,269 views

By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

Write a Book. Read It Out Loud. Discover 3 Gifts.

Written words read out loud have a special power for you - whether you read for yourself in the quiet of an empty room or for others in a group. Not just poetry, which we all love and often prefer to hear read out loud. But also prose - fiction and nonfiction. And not just finished, polished pieces, but drafts of books, too, writing of all types that needs revision.

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,212 views

By Alissa LukaraRecently published1 topic

5 Easy Writing Fixes: The Beauty of Search and Replace for Writing a Book

You have finished a rough draft of a chapter or written your book, filled with bursts of inspiration. You have done some rewriting for your book. You wonder, What can I do next to make this book manuscript shine? Check out these easy fixes for writing a book - all of which you can access with the straightforward search and replace feature of your word processor. They appear simple, yet in my experience, they stand as guaranteed writing enhancers that charge up your book manuscript's rhythm and momentum. I put them on my revisio "must dos" for every book or article I write.

Primary topic: Writing Tools

1,075 views

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