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Laurie Leone On Writing Well for Business and for Pleasure

Communication Tips for the Bulldozer

To know what you want and to work toward getting it is a blessing not everyone enjoys.  You might think you know what you want, wish you know what you want, or have been told what you should want.  But do you really know what you want?  And then, for heaven’s sake!  Do you know how to get what you want?

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Well, let me give you something to think about.  You might have heard that excellence is respected and admired.  And, I hope you know that success loves speed and hesitation breeds obstacles.  Everything counts, you know?  You’re supposed to start every day fast and finish every day strong.   I’ve posted these words to live by in large red letters  on the bulletin board above my computer on the wall in front of my desk that I’m sitting at right now.

I’ve posted another saying there, too.  It reads Appreciation is the Legal Tender All Souls Enjoy.   I first noticed these words as they were expressed in Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People.    Don’t be fooled by the title.  This isn’t a book of manipulation techniques.  No.  Rather, it is a guide to better communication skills.  Indeed, if you improve your communication skills and really start hearing what others have to say, you improve your chances of getting what you want.  And, if you are able to articulate what you want in a way that is readily and cooperatively received by others, you enjoy wonderful results, as well.

In other words, if you demonstrate good listening skills and truly hear how other people feel and think, if you can appreciate the other’s perspective, then you improve your own chances of getting what you want.  Conversely, if you bulldoze your way through others in your quest for what you want, be it a better job, more respect from your coworkers, more cooperation in getting your own needs met, etc., you could find yourself instead pushed down or maybe even out.

The problem is for most bulldozers, sometimes over the course of decades, the bulldozer doesn’t recognize they are indeed bulldozers.  The bulldozer blindly continues bulldozing, getting madder and madder that no one is paying any mind.  But people are paying mind. They are starting to see that life will be better without the bulldozer.   Maybe you’ve seen this in action yourself.

 

 

 

 

 January 16, 2013 Communication Skills

Favorite Place, Time & Songs

My Time

Music is the backdrop for the precious times of our lives.  I’ve had many great “times” in my life, but one of the most precious times for me was when I was 11 and 12 years old.  I had great friends and the liberating freedom that comes with being a kid. 

My Place

In 1973, we moved from Boise, Idaho to Boston’s Beacon Hill.  At the time, I had no idea that our new home was in a place regarded as one of the most desirable and expensive neighborhoods in Boston.  We lived on Grove Street.  It springs up from Cambridge Street.  The other side of Grove Street is North Grove Street, address of the famous Massachusetts General Hospital.  My sisters and I used to run all over that hill. It was our neighborhood and we were safe.

My mother, two sisters and I, along with our two cats, Velvet and Mizpah, and our black Afghan Hound named Alfie, had just moved into a five-room apartment on the second floor of a brick rowhouse that had a bright red door.  Mom drove us cross country in a yellow VW bus that we called “Jaspar.”

Beacon Hill is a historic neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.  It is a neighborhood of Federal-style rowhouses and is known for its narrow, gas-lit streets and brick sidewalks. The Hill is divided at the top by Myrtle Street.  All streets leading up from Cambridge Street end at Myrtle.  You have to walk down West Cedar Street or up Joy Street to get to Pinckney Street in order to cross to the other side.  Back then, that was the “nicer” side. Maybe because it’s closer to the Boston Public Garden and Boston Common, where the single-family rowhouses are.  We used to babysit for families who lived on that side.

My Songs

Michael Martin Murphy’s Wildfire played almost continuously on the popular WRKO AM radio station.  I used to listen to it play every morning before heading off to sixth grade at the Michaelangelo Middle School in the North End.  I bet if you listen to this song now, it will be one of your favorites, too.

WRKO played Wildfire faithfully, almost all day every day, the way radio stations are prone to play hits.  If Wildfire wasn’t playing, then one of these other songs probably was (all favorites of mine):

Baby, Baby Fallin’ in Love by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynold.

Carl Douglas’  Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting

Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods’ Billy, Don’t Be a Hero

I love them all because they’re great songs.  And also because they bring back memories of a good life.

Kind of like Paul Davis’ On a Cool Night.

My “Good Old Days.”

 

 October 23, 2011 Memories & Favorites, Uncategorized , , , , , ,

Do It Anyway

written by Mother Teresa

Do It AnywayIf you are kind,

people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives;

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful,
you will win some false friends and true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you;
Be honest anyway.

What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,
it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway. 

Mother Teresa
1910-1997

September 20, 2011 Personal Brand, Positive Thinking , ,

Expressions of Expressions

It’s Okay - We Know What You Mean

Idioms are expressions we understand in our language to mean certain things, but which cannot be taken word for word.  But what happens when someone wants to partake in idiom-speak but somehow messes up?

Have no fear, “we know what you’re trying to say.”

Here are nine botched expressions I’ve actually heard verbalized by unsuspecting verbalizers.  I think we can all relate:

  1. “I’ve gone over it with a fine tooth and a comb.”
  2. “I wouldn’t give one red dime…”
  3. “I’m internally grateful.”
  4. “I never switch horses in the middle of a job worth doing.”
  5. “You hit the nail with the hammer!”
  6. “Take the bullet by the horns.”
  7. “Take the bull by the horns and run with it.”  (
  8. “You seem to be between a hard rock and a place.”
  9. “I never switch horses in the middle of a job worth doing.”

Have you ever listened dutifully as someone botched a familiar expression?  Are you aware if you’ve done it yourself?  Please share here.

 

 September 9, 2011 Fun With Words , , ,

Visualize Your Goals

You Are What You Think

You Are What You ThinkIf you think you can or you can’t, either way you are right.  Have you heard this saying before?  Do you know exactly what you want to achieve in your life and follow a plan that you designed specifically to help you get there?

I’m going to suggest that every problem you might have right now: you’re overweight, you’re not advancing in your career, you haven’t found your soul mate, your house is a mess, you wish you had more money, whatever…  All of these problems are the result of negative thinking, lack of vision and tenacity.

If you know exactly what you want in your life and you plan properly to achieve your goals, however big or small, your wishes will come true.

For the next few minutes I hope to share with you some tools that you might use to improve yourself and your life experience.  I’m talking about POSITIVE THINKING, VISUALIZATION, and PERSISTENCE.

If you want to improve the chances of achieving your goal and if you want to achieve it faster, then you need to believe in yourself, visualize your success and persistently follow a reasonable plan that will get you what you want and where you want to be.

If You Can See It, You Can Draw It

First, I’m going to tell you a story.  When I was a little girl, I had an art teacher in a public school who told all of us little kids that if we could see something in our minds, we could draw it.   When I heard this I thought, “Great!  I can see it in my mind, so I can draw it!”  This was one of the happiest days of my life, because I knew it was true.  I can draw what I can see.  Even today, when I have a problem I think in my mind, “How do I want this to look?”  Then when I see it, I can create it.  This is my positive thought that I believe and it works for me.

Think Positive

I told you already, if you think you can’t or you can’t, either way you are right.  That’s because you are what you think.  Your thoughts become reality.  This is why you need to guard against negative thoughts like “I can’t do it!” or “What will people think?”  Instead replace those thoughts with “Everything goes right for me!” and focus on all the reasons why you are worthy of achieving your goals.

Visualize

Once you know what you want, picture yourself having it.  See yourself enjoying your success.

  • You have abs of steal NOW!
  • You look fresh in your new Lamborghini NOW!
  • You are comfortable and happy in the job of your dreams making the kind of living you want for yourself and your family, NOW! 

Some people create vision boards to assist themselves in effectively visualizing their goals.  Whether we know it or not, we’ve seen vision boards used in children’s stories, advertising, corporate development and other places.

Make A Vision Board

A vision board is a visual representation or collage of the things that you want to have, be, or do in your life.  It can be a poster, foam board, or simple piece of paper with cut-out pictures, drawings and/or writing on it of the things that you want in your life or the things that you want to become.  Having a vision board will serve as a constant reminder of what is most important to you and can help you pull things from your external environment that will enable you to realize your dream.  By selecting pictures and writing that charge your emotions with feelings of passion, you will begin to manifest those things into your life.

Vision boards are regular features in fantasy stories and films.  For instance, if you’re familiar with the fantasy story of James and The Giant Peach written by Roald Dahl, you may have recognized that the little boy James used a vision board when he felt trapped at his wicked aunts’ house on a hillside in England.  Each evening as he sat alone in his dingy little room, he would gaze longingly at a travel brochure depicting the Empire State Building in New York City and knew he would get there one day and be welcome by everyone.   His dream came true.

Corporate brochures can be vision boards as well.  For instance, a familiar water park in southern New Hampshire distributes vision boards to its prospective visitors (i.e., brochure, advertising literature).  They show you exactly the kind of fun you can experience and feel by visiting their park.  If you look at the photos long enough, you may be able to see your own smiling face slipping down the water slides.  An accompanying map helps you create your plan of how to get the best experience during your visit.

Reach Your Goals

Let’s say for the moment that you know what you want and you can see and feel yourself enjoying your own success.  But you need a plan that you will stick to.  Which brings us to the last tool.

Be Persistent

The most important tool is persistence.  In order to achieve anything for yourself, you must stay focused on the prize.  Recommit to your intentions daily and even sometimes minute to minute.  It probably won’t happen over night, but if you are persistent, good things will come.

Start NOW

In conclusion, we all have hopes and dreams for ourselves, our loved ones, our careers, health and lifestyles.  What better way to get moving on our goals that to start right now, today, with a plan — A plan that leads to guaranteed results: POSITIVE THINKING, VISUALIZATION,  and PERSISTENCE.

Do you have a vision board?  What techniques can you share for creating one?

 August 19, 2011 Positive Thinking , , , ,

The Letter “R”…

The stories you are about to read are true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Saturn Shoes

My friend was planning the outfit she would wear to the ultra formal wedding of a sister to one of the New Kids On The Block.  We live in the Greater Boston area and this was a black-tie event back in the early ’90s, as you may have already surmised.  (Of course, any likeness to real individuals or groups, while 100% accurate and true, are hereby denied and insisted as purely coincindental in the name of social congeniality.)

Anyway, my friend, we’ll call her “Sheryl,” no, I’m sorry, we’ll call her “Sarah,” described to me in detail the magnificent ensemble she planned to wear to this celebrity event.

“The men are encouraged to wear tuxedos.  The women, black dresses.  And I’ll be wearing ‘Saturn Shoes,’” Sarah beamed.

Saturn Shoes, I wondered.  In my mind flashed pictures of stunning plantetary rings that were really part of an annular disk with concentric local maxima and minima in density and brightness surrounding a fabulous ladies’ dress shoe bearing 6″ heels. 

“What are Saturn Shoes, Sarah? ” I had to ask, however sheepishly, regretfully revealing my obvious lack of fashion sense and flushing head to toe a brilliant chagrin. 

“Why, they’re the most formal shoes you can buy,”Sarah explained.  “Women purchase them a pure white then dye them the exact color of their dresses for weddings and other formal occasions.”  She gave these instructions with superb confidence.  “They come in all styles, you know – I bought mine at Shirley Shoe,” she smiled.

“Oh!” I said a little loudly, pinching my lip.  Then, forcing the dazzling planetary ring image out of my head, I realized Sarah was talking about satin shoes.  Yes, satin shoes.  I thought of my own shoes that I had months earlier dyed a vibrant blue to match a dress I’d worn as a bridesmaid.  Then I realized the noble gesture Sarah was attempting.

Narcho Party

After collecting the mail from my mailbox one afternoon, I noticed a small colored envelope among the mass of larger, rectangular others normally associated with bills.  Clearly an invitation of some sort, I brushed the other mail aside and opened the square envelope with interest.

It was from Nancy, a best friend I’d had since high school.  “NARCHO PARTY.”  Her letters were large and handwritten across the top of a pretty premade notecard.  “PLEASE COME.”  Curious about this theme “narcho,” I picked up the phone and called my friend.

“Nancy, I’ve received my party invitation and am available to attend.  But I’m curious as to the theme.  I’ve never heard of ‘narcho’ before.  Do tell,” I asked.

“You know, tortilla chips and salsa!” Nancy exclaimed.  ”I didn’t know if there was an ’r’ in nacho or not, so I just threw one in.”

Proud Godfarther

My husband and I were visiting friends shortly after the Christening of their newest baby.  Joining the host as he came out to greet us was Uncle Don sporting a new T-Shirt that he had made himself using iron-on letters, especially for the occasion.  “GODFARTHER,” the shirt read, in large black seriffed letters, blazened across his chest.

I blinked at his shirt for just a moment, but needed no explanation.  We shook hands and joined the party that was already underway.

The Letter “R”

Growing up with a Boston accent isn’t always just as easy as accepting that the letter “r” is intended to be silent.  (Think “Pahk the cah in Hahvid Yahd.”)  While often the bunt of jokes, as one gets older a person can get confused that the characteristic silent “r” is merely colloquial and characteristic of the East Coast.  The hard truth is a person born into the Boston accent can sometimes overcompensate by, as strange as it may sound, over pronouncing the letter ”r” and adding it where none exists.  

Thus we have “Saturn” shoes, “narcho” chips, “Farther’s” Day, etc.  Unique to the East Coast, I am sure. 

But really, I think I’d like a pair of  Saturn Shoes with planetary rings, maybe to wear to a Narcho Party next Farther’s Day.

Does your neck of the woods share an accent phenomenon?  Please share your funny story.

 July 18, 2011 Fun With Words , , ,

6 Telephone Interview Questions

Recently, I participated in a telephone interview for a job that sounded like it was something I wanted and for which I was exceptionally qualified.  Like a good candidate, I prepared for the interview by studying the company website, googling my interviewer and basically learning as much as I possibly could about the position and about the organization’s mission and corporate climate.

Additionally, I contemplated about 100 questions that are commonly asked during interviews and formulated my answers.  As the time of my interview approached, I situated all of my materials around me for easy reference, prepared myself a glass of ice water, practiced speaking with a smile, and waited for the telephone to ring.

When the phone rang, I was ready.  After the Operations VP said “hello,” she told me she would ask me several questions that I should answer very specifically.  These were the questions:

  1. How would you explain a complex topic involving jargon to a person who was not familiar with the subject?
  2. Give an example of how you overcame a difficult meeting with someone who may not have liked you and explain how you communicated what you wanted to say.
  3. In your last position, would you say you had to pay low, moderate or great attention to detail?
  4. Explain how you met a goal and what means you used to accomplish that goal.
  5. What about this job made you feel comfortable or want to apply to it?
  6. What are your hours of availability — are you available to work Monday through Thursday, 10am to 8:30pm with appointments on Saturdays?

My feeling is the last question was a surprise question, intended to measure how much priority I would give the job above any personal commitments I might have and/or to determine how I might handle unexpected or difficult surprises.

Have you experienced a telephone interview?  What kinds of questions did you encounter?

 June 21, 2011 Job Seeking , , , , , , , ,

Preparing for the Telephone Interview

Job SearchIf you’ve been seriously looking for a job at all in this job market, you’ve been networking and sending out resumes.  For a lot of us though, it takes time, patience, perseverence and thick skin to accept when your skills and qualifications aren’t immediately recognized.  That’s because today, employers can receive hundreds of resumes for just one open position.   Competition can be fierce.

For now, let’s go ahead and assume that you have a rockin’ resume that’s been pulled out of the pile and you’re now looking at an email response declaring the need for a telephone interview tomorrow.  Great!

Now how do you best prepare for your telephone interview and what kinds of questions can you expect?

From my own experience, I advise you to expect fluffy, hard and surprise questions, all designed to test you on how well you think on your feet.  The interviewer, afterall, is attempting to screen out as many people as possible before advancing the more serious candidates on to the traditional interview.  It may not even be what you say but how your voice sounds on the phone, how you handle surprises and whether you conduct yourself professionally.

3 Tips to Prepare for the Telephone Interview

You should prepare for a telephone interview the very same way that you would prepare for a traditional face-to-face interview.  However, unless it’s a video conference call, you don’t need to decide what to wear.  Once you know the time the interviewer will be calling you, you can make sure you have no distractions, like kids or pets, loud radios or televsions, etc.

And let’s get started:

  1. Review the company’s website.  If you didn’t review the website as you prepared your application materials, make sure you do before the telephone interview.  It’s critically important to learn as much as you can before you speak to them to be considered for employment.   (Maybe you’re not even interested, after all!)
  2. Google the person who will be interviewing you.  Chances are they’ve googled you, scoured your social media profiles, found your blog and reviewed your tweets.  It will help build confidence if you get a better feel for the person you’ll be speaking to.
  3. Develop a list of routine interview questions and prepare your answers in writing.  This is probably the most important thing you can do.  You should ask yourself the questions you know you’ll have the most trouble answering.  Then write your answers down.  Having prepared written answers can calm your nerves and help you organize your thoughts.  You don’t have to recite them, but it might not be a bad idea.
  4. Consider how you answer hard questions.  For instance, if you left your last job on less-than-desirable terms, you might prepare your answer to the obvious question, “Why did you leave your last position?”  You can work on your wording so you feel your answer is just right.  It should go with out saying that you should never, ever, ever bad mouth your former boss or coworkers.
  5. Plan how you will answer surprise questions.  Some interviewers throw in surprise questions so they can gage how committed to the job you might be.  For example, on a recent telephone interview I participated in, I was asked if my availability could extend to 8:30pm four nights a week with appointments on Saturdays.

It can be nerve wracking preparing for any interview.  But the more you prepare, the better you will feel before, during and after the telephone interview.

You can see some actual questions that were recently posed to me during a telephone interview I participated in here: 6 Telephone Interview Questions.

How do you prepare for interviews?

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Your Personal Brand

You want to stand out from the crowd and chances are you do.  But do you stand out for all the right reasons?  If you’ve ever read even one self-help or personal improvement article anytime or anywhere, you know that you control the personal impact you have on others.  So why not make sure your impact is a good one?

Your Personal Impact

No matter what you’re doing, i.e., standing with other parents at your child’s sporting event, waiting in line at the movies, searching for your soul mate or looking for a new job, you exude your personal brand.  Every communication of any sort that you have with any other individual, in writing or spoken, your personal demeanor and appearance, is your personal brand in action.  It’s up to you to make it positive.

According to CAREEREALISM, a career management and personal branding blog, quality and personal excellence are two key elements of your personal brand.  Every human being is individually outfitted with quality and personal excellence.  The degree to which we embrace and broadcast these elements is communicated to others on a continuous basis and is incorporated into others’ vision of who we are.   When we become fully aware of this fact, then we hold the key to projecting a personal brand that elevates our own professionalism and brilliance.

Persistent focus on quality and personal excellence puts us in the driver’s seat of our own destinies.  Your personal brand is the consistent message that represents your commitment to quality and personal excellence.  

While nobody’s perfect and there is certainly such a thing as having a bad day, the truth is you exude your personal brand continuously whenever you interact or are observed interacting with someone else, like in the following activities:

  • Every e-mail message you send to someone else;
  • Every voice mail message you leave for someone;
  • The recorded message others hear when they try to reach you;
  • Your e-mail “signature;”
  • All social media profiles you have on networking sites online: LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook;
  • Every written project you compose (letter, report, newsletter, brochure, memo);
  • Any presentation you make in front of anyone else;
  • Your punctuality, or lack thereof;
  • Every business card you hand out to someone else;
  • The manner in which you greet a stranger or anyone else you meet for the first time;
  • The manner in which you present yourself physically — your style of dress and grooming;
  • Every conversation you have with another person;
  • The quality of the people you “hang around with;”
  • The role you play in community and professional organizations;
  • The degree of kindness and compassion you communicate to others in every interaction you have;
  • Your attendance at certain events.

Each of these activities is an opportunity to communicate a high level of quality and personal excellence.  Missing the beat on any one can derail your personal brand.  Keep your eye on your goal of personal excellence making sure each step you take is a step closer toward achieving it.

Commit to a plan for self improvement today.  And remember, “It takes the hammer of persistence to drive the nail of success.” — John Mason

What does your personal brand say about you?

 June 9, 2011 Personal Brand , , ,

Busting Through Writer’s Block

So, You Have Writer’s Block

Writer's BlockCongratulations!  Having writer’s block confirms that you’re a writer.  Only writers get writer’s block.  If you weren’t a writer, you wouldn’t even know what being blocked from writing is.  I love writers, and I love writing.  I’m glad and proud to be a writer!  But, man! do I hate writer’s block.  And yet I’m a writer, so I get writer’s block.   Yes.  I am this lucky.

My writer’s block is obnoxious.  It snickers and sneers and says “Nanny, nanny, boo, boo!”

So what should you do when the snicker of writer’s block thwarts your productivity?  You just bust through it.  That’s what you do.  But how?  It sounds so easy, but when you sit down to do your busting, what happens?  You surf the ‘net, check your bank balance, make a decision to change your hair color…  My hair is brown now.  Yesterday it was blonde.  In about a week, it will be blonde again, but then I’ll probably go brown, maybe with a blonde streak — Writer’s block gets you sidetracked by everything and anything, except busting through.

Well, I have busting tricks that sometimes work for me and if applied properly, they may work for you, too.

Once I share with you these little secrets, you can slap the sneer right off your writer’s block and leave its taunting melody behind you.

Writer’s Block Bust #1

The first trick is so easy and so effective and it only takes a minute.  For this to work though, you need to be dressed to the shoes.  Your shoes can be sneakers or boots, slippers or heels.  But you should be wearing shoes, and it helps to be wearing clothes so you don’t look or feel too weird.  (You may have guessed I’m not really a fan of the “earn a degree in your pajamas” plan.  However, it is up to you.)  Now, close your eyes and raise your arms out like an airplane.  Inhale deeply through your nose and breathe out slowly through your mouth, lowering your arms as you exhale.

Here’s the secret: Think of the friendly, giant Kool-Aid Jug busting through the wall on the old commercials.  See his gigantic-ness and feel his energy as he busts in on the scene.  Now open your eyes.  That’s you!  You’re the Kool-Aid Jug and you’re busting through the brick wall that is writer’s block! What a relief!

(After you do this on a few occasions, you can modify the activity to a simple shout, “Hey, Kool-Aid!” and you may get the same results.)

Now you are free to get to work!  You can write now, you’re smiling and all of your obstacles are gone.  Just start writing and don’t look back, except maybe to give a wink and smile to the Kool-Aid Jug.  Write about how you felt busting through that wall!  Write about your favorite Kool-Aid flavor.  Write about how awful the Kool-Aid powder tastes before you add the tons of sugar it calls for.  Once you get some words down, you will remember how great you are at writing and now you can keep going.  Now you can write that article on the implications of socio-economic diversity on small urban communities that you’ve been meaning to get to.  (Now there’s a topic!)

If the “Hey Kool-Aid!” didn’t work, or you want to try something else, then here’s another trick that works equally well.

Writer’s Block Bust #2

Writer’s block can come upon you suddenly and strip you of your magical writing powers.  This is why sometimes when my snickering writer’s block shows up, I think of a favorite TV show I loved as a kid.  First I watched the show in black and white and then delighted when it went technicolor. But the best part for me was at the very beginning: the cartoon of a pretty witch riding her broom up around the moon and stars.  I’m talking about Bewitched, of course, starring Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stevens.

Well anyway, let’s get rid of writer’s block.  In a loud, clear voice, repeat after me:

“Calling Dr. Bombay, calling Dr. Bombay. Emergency! Come right away!” That was Samantha’s famous call for her family witch doctor, whom she summonsed whenever some strange symptom of an unearthly disease appeared at the Stevens home.  Virtually all of Samantha’s sicknesses manifested by stripping her of her magical powers.

To be stripped of magical powers that help you get through your chores or whip up whatever you want is akin in my book to having writer’s block.

So you’ve just summonsed Dr. Bombay and he will have the remedy.  Yes, he will appear in an outrageous costume, appropriate for whatever bizarre activity he was interrupted doing, and herein lies the antidote to writer’s block.  So, get started writing!  You can write about what Dr. Bombay was doing before he was summonsed, what he is wearing (surgeon’s scrubs or a matador’s ornate ensemble, perhaps).  Just get writing and don’t stop.  Then you will remember what a gifted writer you really are and you can be rid of this dreaded case of writer’s block, at least for now.

I hope you get results with my little tips.  Do you have tips to share?  Please post them here.

What about you?  How do you bust through writer’s block? 

Left: This is me in downtown Salem, Massachusetts at the commemorative statue of Samantha Stevens riding her broom around the moon.  Among her many feats, she’s also a writer’s block buster!

 June 4, 2011 Fun With Words, Writing Tips , , , , , , ,
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