Create Your Writer's Life offers a coaching approach to developing a writing practice that actually works. Finally, a resource that allows you to do it your way, and that works.

Create Your Writer's Life: A Guide to Writing With Joy and Ease

Education & Teaching

Cynthia Morris

Schools & Teaching

Original Impulse

Lily Heller’s affaire de coeur with Paris has existed almost as long as her love for books. Smitten with the city’s literary Golden Age of the twenties, the young bookstore clerk from Denver dreams of a life like that of bold expatriate Sylvia Beach, who founded the famed Shakespeare and Company bookshop and became her own literary legend. An impromptu trip to the City of Light carries Lily further than her imagination ever took her. Arriving unexpectedly in 1937 Paris—penniless, friendless, and clueless—Lily must rely on her wobbly French and her wits. But a mysterious invitation offers her entrée into the glittering inner circle of Sylvia Beach herself. This clue leads her further into the complex and dangerous Paris on the brink of war—and it’s not the friendly literary community she had imagined. Lily becomes a character inside the world that she had fantasized about—but with chilling consequences. In her quest to return home, Lily finds herself enmeshed in an undercover league of time-traveling bibliophiles. Charged with a daunting task, along the way Lily falls for a gallant young Frenchman, discusses the art of writing with Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, and runs afoul of a dashing Nazi agent. In order to escape unscathed, Lily must make choices that force her to reconcile her past and that may revise literary history forever. A celebration of a timeless city’s allure, an engaging romantic fantasy, and a valentine to book lovers in every era, Chasing Sylvia Beach is a novel to savor and be spellbound by.

Chasing Sylvia Beach

Literature & Fiction

Morris, Cynthia

Genre Fiction

A book is a passion shared. It says, “Here’s my stake in the world. Here’s what I believe. Here’s what I want to give to the world.” Writing a book is a bold undertaking, and during the process, no one escapes fear and self-doubt about their work. No matter how smart and accomplished you are, you’ll be asking yourself, “Can I do this? Will it be good enough?” Believe it or not, your book can make a difference—even change the world—but only if you write it. The Busy Woman’s Guide to Writing a World-Changing Book will help you navigate the emotional labor of committing your ideas to paper.Other books may try to tell you how to “do” your book: you must complete A, B and C in a specific way, on a certain schedule. But rigid approaches don’t work for busy women immersed in running businesses, building art careers, caring for families and loved ones…or all of the above. Structure and flexibility are required.This book is different. It will show you how to set up a writing practice so you can write your book on your schedule, no matter how busy you are. Cynthia shows you the ins and outs of writing a non-fiction book including how to:Gather your focus so you can drop into your writing easilyPull your ideas into an outline that will help you writeStay on track, even when the process becomes overwhelmingGet back in the groove when life interrupts your flowOvercome the obstacles waiting just before the finish lineEnjoy the process, in your way, in your time. If you know you want to write but aren’t doing it, you are denying your essential self, a vital role that you are here to play. Our creativity is the source of our vitality. When we are creating, we tap into our truest aliveness. We generate new energy. This energy feels much better than the dread or pain of avoiding our writing. Everyone deserves to enjoy the aliveness that we generate when we are doing our creative work. Cynthia Morris has been coaching writers, artists and entrepreneurs since 1999. She has helped thousands of people get beyond their fears and excuses to write their stories and their truth. Now, she’s put her best practices into short, solid chapters designed to help busy women focus, follow through, and finish writing their books.Practical, encouraging and rich in decades of experience working with writers, The Busy Woman’s Guide to Writing a World-Changing Book is like having your own writer’s coach on call. You’ll love this collection of inspiration and actionable steps for finally getting your ideas out of your head and into your book. More than ever, women’s voices need to be heard. Writing your book will change the world, starting with yours.

The Busy Woman's Guide to Writing a World-Changing Book

Business & Money

Morris, Cynthia L

Skills

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