by Teri Brown | Mar 5, 2015 | Books, joy, Volunteering, Writing Life
My first guest in my blog series on Writers and Altruism is Portland author Dawn Prochovonic. Why is volunteering important to you? Volunteering is important to me on many different levels, and it has opened my heart and mind in unexpected ways. Volunteering helps me...
by Teri Brown | Feb 15, 2015 | Books, health, joy, Mental Health, Writing, Writing Life
The last thing any writer wants to hear when they already put in thousands of words a week is to write more, but that is exactly what new studies are suggesting. Writing down your feelings can actually improve mood. So maybe those angst filled chronicles of our teen...
by Teri Brown | Jan 15, 2015 | Books, health, joy, Writing Life
Okay, so by now some of you may think I’m a little Type A/OCD about organization and I promise you, I’m really not. Ask my husband. Or my boss. All this just sort of snuck up on me. Everyone has exactly the same amount of time allotted to them. In that, we all have a...
by Teri Brown | Jan 6, 2014 | Books, Writing, Writing Life
I have known Shirley online for YEARS. We belong to an online group called Momwriters and were there as both of our careers took off. Like me, Shirley started as a nonfiction writer, but always longed to write fiction. She has now written more books than I can count...
by Teri Brown | Sep 12, 2013 | Books, Writing Life
I have more hats than shoes. Now I’m not a shoe person. My daughter has stacks of kicks in her closet and I know people who pay for extra luggage on the plane just for their shoes. That’s not me. Even so, I have collected a lot of shoes over the years, but for the...
by Teri Brown | Mar 27, 2013 | Books, Promotions, Social Media, Writing, Writing Life
Holy, moly, mother of god, does public relations, marketing and platform building stress me out. I feel like I should know all this stuff already and I don’t. People say comforting things like, “A writer’s job is to write. Only do as much marketing work as you are...
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