Give Your Inner Critic a New Job
by Michele T. Berger Inner critics can sabotage our creative work. More than a decade ago, I began to study how and why inner critics become unwanted residents in our psyches. Inner critics are the sharp-tongued internal voices that often ...
Does Your Creative Life Need a Tune Up? Part 2
“Desire for an idea is like bait. You’re fishing, and you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in those ideas.” David Lynch by Michele T. ...
#WeNeedDiverseBooks: Writing and Publishing in the 2020s (Part 3)
by Michele Tracy Berger Coming of age in the 1970s and 1980s, I never read a commercial novel that featured a character that was anything like me: African American, female, wickedly smart, urban, and geeky. The children’s and young adult market ...
Readers, Authors and Discoverability: Writing and Publishing in the 2020s ...
by Michele Tracy Berger Think about the last time you read a book. How did you find out about it? Twenty years ago, you might have seen a book review in the pages of a magazine or newspaper. This is ...
The Success Question: Writing and Publishing in the 2020s (Part ...
by Michele Tracy Berger What makes a successful writer today? That’s a tough question and it depends on who you ask and what metric you use. As a Gen-Xer, when I was growing up, writers held a mysterious allure. On ...