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    Make a Mastermind Group a Powerful Tool in your Writing Life

    Living a creative life is amazing, but it often is in conflict with the business side of things when you are trying to parlay that creativity into a career. My 30th book released last month. You’d think I’d have figured out a way to meld the two sides of my creative life. The bottom line is that it’s always a challenge to meld the two. This is why two creative friends and I began what is called a ‘mastermind group’. We did this in order to have accountability, not necessarily for our work product, but more for our intentions around our work, whatever that looks like for each of us. It has been a powerful tool in my writing life.
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    The Importance of Adding Diversity to Your Writing

    It is so important to add diversity to your writing. It’s essential to have conversations like the one I had with VM Burns so we all learn how to represent races and cultures and sexuality intentionally and with authenticity and respect in our writing. Because we live in a diverse world filled with people who are of varying races, cultures, and who practice different religions, and politics, and who may live their lives differently than we do.

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    10 Reasons Writers Need To Be Readers

    There are 10 very good reasons why it is vital for writers to also be readers.

    Let’s start with this:

    Successful people read.

    They read to gain knowledge, to learn about the world, its people, different cultures, and they read, as Oprah Winfrey says, because it is a “path to freedom”.

    For many people, reading is a hobby. Maybe that hobby is what influenced your decision to write. For writers, however, reading is far more than a hobby. It should be something you do…and do a lot. It should be a priority in your daily life.

    So, writers, read…and reap the benefits.
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    Let People Know You are a Writer

    Show the World Who You Are with WriterSpark merch! WriterSpark Academy began with the online courses on Teachable. I have teaching in my blood and