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2016 Writer's Digest Conference: Portable Value Pack

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2016 Writer's Digest Conference: Portable Value PackThis special value pack is filled with 2016 conference sessions, you will learn how to write, pitch, publish, and market your book all from the comfort of your couch! Let this value pack guide you through every step of the writing process from character development all the way to promoting your finished book. All the information you need to build your author platform, develop dynamic characters, become your own publicist, and much more is included in

This special value pack is filled with 2016 conference sessions, you will learn how to write, pitch, publish, and market your book – all from the comfort of your couch! Let this value pack guide you through every step of the writing process from character development all the way to promoting your finished book. All the information you need to build your author platform, develop dynamic characters, become your own publicist, and much more is included in this convenient and informative value pack.

Three Ways to Build a Successful Author Platform
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Whether you're an author or someone who advises authors (publisher, agent or publicist), this session will be relevant. You will learn through examples and case studies how to connect all the elements of online marketing (website, mailing list, blogging, social media, advertising and publicity) into a cohesive, successful and sustainable author platform.

Effective Marketing Strategies for Authors
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The biggest challenge facing an author,whether traditionally published or self-published,is effectively promoting your work and motivating the public to buy it. In this session you will learn a number of strategies and how to make the best use of your time from a panel of experts!

Creating Book Buzz on a Shoestring Budget
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In this session, internationally published, award-winning author Kristen Harnisch will help you determine what's unique about your book or your personal story, and how to use it to market your book in out-of-the-box ways and on a budget.

How to Be Your Own Best Publicist
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In this session, bestselling author Emily Liebert discusses the growing need in publishing to become your own biggest cheerleader and publicist and provides insight, advice, and anecdotes from her own publishing journey to illustrate her success in this area.

Maximizing Your Business as an Author on Amazon
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In this session, James Kuykendall, Amazon's Senior Business Development Manager for Kindle, discusses ways you can leverage Amazon's marketing platform to find new readers and maximize sales of your books.

Cooperative Publishing
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In this panel, literary agent April Eberhardt, Jordan Rosenfeld, and C.P. Lesley discuss the growing trend among indie authors to band together to form literary cooperatives, enabling them to support one another's efforts while benefiting from group collaboration on editing, marketing/promotion, financial and other aspects of publishing.

10 Essential Writing Lessons from 10 Years of Interviewing Bestsellers
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This session distills 10 years of collected wisdom into the 10 all-time best insights into the creative process, the writing life, the craft of writing and the business of publishing. Get new perspectives on revolutionizing your writing routine, following the path of your story, revising with the right mindset, persevering through rejection, and empowering yourself,straight from the mouths of award-winners and bestsellers including Alice Walker, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Patricia Cornwell, Khaled Hosseini, Brad Meltzer, Lisa Scottoline, Chris Cleave and more.

Getting Intimate with Your Characters
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You allow readers to engage with characters in this deeply intimate way through mastery of Point of View, which is the intimacy through which you share your characters' experiences and plant the reader right inside the character's very skin. In this workshop, author Jordan Rosenfeld will discuss key character cues and the emotional layers of each point of view for masterful character development.

From Storytelling Mire to Page-Turning Momentum
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In this invaluable session, author and writing coach Annalisa Parent will walk you through a straightforward system for plotting your fiction to ensure that your readers keep turn pages until The End.

Creating Dynamic Characters That Come to Life
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Novelist Brenda Janowitz will discuss where to find inspiration for your characters, how to make your characters feel authentic, and how to present your characters in your narrative. Attendees can expect to do writing exercises, and come away with a clear understanding of how to create a character study for their characters.

Saying Yes to the Writerly Life
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A bit of conversation, a dash of storytelling, and a splash of performance by Newbery Award-winning author Kwame Alexander as he shares from his recent books, educational insights, and plan to change the world one word at a time.

Becoming Persistent
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What makes the difference between the writer who sees success and the one who struggles to make it? Persistence. Author Jordan Rosenfeld will walk you through practical ways to sustain an unshakable writing practice through the mastery of persistence skills such as: building strong boundaries around your writing time; carving out distractions; collaborating with others; learning when to walk away, and when to try again.

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pepe
Waukegan, US
★★★★★ 5
interesting analysis of what 'being creative' really means
This easy-to-read absorbing book is based on lengthy interviews with 91 creative individuals ranging from Nobel prize winners to artists to CEOs. Csikszentmihalyi starts by debunking the myth of 'the lone genius having a brilliant idea as if by magic' and defines three necessary ingredients for creativity ('with a capital "C"') - domain, field, and individual. Creativity must take place within a recognised domain (such as physics, painting and so forth); be recognised by experts in that domain (the field, although this may not happen in the individual's lifetime, eg, Van Gogh); and of course come from an individual, although he also adds the painstaking work that precedes and insight, the reality that all creativity builds on what has gone before, and the social elements of the creative process. The book also offers supporting evidence from the lives of the 91 interviewed, which also provides interesting insights into their lives. In many ways, this book is a biography of the creative individual. Also contains a chapter with quite practical guidance on how to live more creatively. Prescient advice for a book published in 1996 given the increasing profile creativity is getting in business and public life. HIghly recommended, one of the most interesting learning experiences i have had in a long while!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2013
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Charles H. Hooker Jr.
Battle Creek, US
★★★★★ 5
Very enlightening for those who truly appreciate creativity more than cleverness!
Format: Paperback
I love how the author almost redefines creativity .and sheds new light (for me, at least!)on what what real-for-true creativity is and how it benefits individuals and society. It's far more than simply brightening up a room with new wallpaper and curtains -- it describes how genuine creativity requires a thorough working knowledge of the fundamentals of any given field before one can truly create something new or better, and it reveals how those of us who aren't capable of creating something ourselves can yet be part of the process by demonstrating appreciation and support for those who create, whether as sponsors, patrons, or even just ardent fans!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2023
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Donald Walker
Lowell, US
★★★★★ 3
instructive but limited
The testimonies of creative people that give this book its flesh and blood provide fascinating examples of creative people at work. That said, if a journalist had written the book, it would be more readable, and I don't think any less of an intellectual contribution. Moreover, the definition of creativity is elitist and stunts the topic (as observed by other reviewers): "Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one. And the definition of a creative person is: someone whose thoughts or actions change a domain, or establish a new domain. It is important to remember, however, that a domain cannot be changed without the explicit or implicit consent of a field responsible for it." Given the people interviewed, much more needs to be said about the function of social institutions in promoting creativity. Many of the accomplishments lauded in this book would never have happened without grant-making agencies (e.g., NSF, NIH, HHMI) or non-profit employers like research universities and hospitals. To offer just one obvious example of the difference made by one's institutional context, the author had advanced students to help him do his research for this book. The elitism of the definition is even clearer in the role that marketplace plays as a judge of creativity. None of us buys books from amazon.com because some official group validated amazon.com as a good idea. We didn't wait for computer programers to affirm and certify it. Amazon.com is not deemed successful because it impressed its peers. It is successful because millions of us purchase goods through it. Similarly, auto-executives did not make the minivan a successful idea, millions of shoppers did. (Obviously I don't think the marketplace fits into the author's definition of creativity. If 300 million American consumers comprise a domain with 300 million judges, then the word no longer has any useful meaning.) The definition also precludes that countless ephemeral acts of creativity that take place daily. I think instantly of two women I have worked with who were great at holidays. Their clever costumes or decorations brightened my day, adding a little element of surprise and delight. Their acts of creativity don't meet the definitions of this book. The way that creativity is defined in this book is simply a filtering mechanism by which the author selected the people he would interview. It is not a definition of creativity. It is only a description of a subsection of creativity, the kind where institutions provide paychecks to highly practiced individuals to work hard at what they love. I also found little new to take away and apply to my own social existence inside the organization where I work. Perhaps I can summarize my dissatisfaction by observing that the subtitle sets out an agenda for the psychology of creativity, but the definitional filter is intrinsically social. This disconnection sets the book up to fail. So, count this as a negative review, yes, but I did enjoy reading the testimonies of the people interviewed, and the author adds some value in the generalizations he draws. Still, much, much more could have been said.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2012
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Judith R. Hert
Natrona Heights, US
★★★★★ 5
Wise and Complete
Format: Paperback
I've read a lot of books, too many, on creativity, and this is by far the best, the most complete, the most interesting. The idea that creativity comes out of immersion in a domain or field seems absolutely right and the idea missed by so many other writers. I'm a writer and a painter and I've learned that I'm not going to be any better than the work I've come to know and love, that I have to live in that work. If you want to be a better string player, play with a better ensemble. In many ways a creative person is someone who is in a conversation with what has come before, with work that excites her, teaches her, challenges her. This book makes that plain. But he has other insights as well, especially about the creative personality, the interesting dichotomies. Just read the book.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2015
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Common Arts Farm
Carnegie, US
★★★★★ 4
Creativity which has the power to change the world
A few caveats to those who are generally interested in creativity studies: Csikszentmihalyi's analysis and discussion of creativity does not directly relate to those who are personally creative. People who enjoy engaging in creative activities are not demoted, in his terms, but are simply not a part of the study. It is unfortunate that his language makes it seem this way; he distinguishes between the two by saying that Creativity has the power to shape a domain or the world, while creativity applies to those who enjoy coming up with new recipes, who are engaged in research that may not change a domain, but may "tweak" it, etc. What he is trying to discover are the underlying principles and traits of creativity in those whose work has made a significant change. Think Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mark Strand: people who are either widely known for their influence, or who have been influential within their area or domain. This book provides an interesting view into the minds and work habits of Creative individuals, and concludes by offering general advice to those who wish to make their own lives and work more creative. It is a useful book, but one which requires a great deal of supplemental reading, in order to truly engage in creativity studies.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2003

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