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Dec.06.2012 Nola Hennessy, Taming Technology, Constructive Criticism Welcome to Starstyle Be the Star You Are!® radio program, the longest running show on the World Talk Radio Network. -Starstyle®-Be the Star You Are! is an outreach program of Be the Star You Are!® charity of positive book talk with your hosts Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany. ...	Sep.24.2012 Alma Feelings Almost always, my books get good ratings. However, every now and then I’ll get some criticism. When I get criticized it’s, we want more out of the characters and more of their feelings. So I decided to write a blog to tell more about me and my feels. Who could understand my...
Aug.11.2012 Frivolous and Frothy I've been told my blog pieces are "frothy" whatever that means. I think my critics mean my pieces are quick to read, easily absorbed and fast to forget. Yep, I think "seriousblogger" felt my enthusiastic read of "The Innocent" by David Baldacci was too frivolous to even be considered as a...	Aug.04.2012 Listening to Your Outer Critics Part of being a writer is striving to improve your writing. However, asking for criticism is not the same as being able to listen to criticism. Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and the new book Happier at Home, had some useful things about taking criticism on her blog, My...
Jul.01.2012 Searching for My Voice I've been thinking about and reading more about the process of creating art, specifically writing. I have been taking baby steps in terms of sharing my writing with others. I've had mostly positive feedback on my blog posts, but I'm contemplating more. Another blogger spoke of signing up for...	Sep.12.2011 Yellow Highlighter Cowardice I took five pages of my memoir to a friend today and asked her to highlight the bits she liked. I never do this but I'm glad I did. After writing poetry for three years solid and very little prose, I feel like I've gone from a bunch of flowers to the Amazon Rain Forest overnight. I was able to ask...
Feb.15.2011 Coffee and a Critique Okay, I will honest with you. I can't stand criticism. I loathe rejection. I find both to almost go hand in hand when it comes to a writer placing anything in anyone else's hands. That's my reality. Yet, I want to help my fellow fearsome writers. I recently had a positive critique experience...	Feb.16.2010 A Plea for Constructive Criticism I am just starting to write again and am wanting some feedback. If you have the time, dear reader, please oh please read one of my stories or poems and give me honest criticism. I truly want to know if they are good or not; if I should persue this writing thing with more seriousness or just keep...
Feb.10.2010 A Faulty Design “Unless you start doing something different, you’re in for more of the same.” ~Author unknown. Have you ever met someone who will complain daily about life, but won’t do anything to change the dynamics of it? They are genuinely distressed about the dramas repeatedly unfolding in their lives...