The one you lost while writing papers or when stuck in traffic, when running for meetings or meeting deadlines. The one you wrote away paying taxes or the one you silently traded for more assets. The one that was squashed by that mob mentality or flattened under the weight of your wants. The one that …
Johari Window is an approach that aids in understanding relationships, whether it be with oneself or with others. Designed by psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham, it is a heuristic exercise that allows for a deep dive into how much information about a person is HIDDEN and a recognition of what all about that person …
"Knowing our values can help create meaning and sense of purpose" - Avegaile Calzado
Gustav Freytag, the German playwright devised the Freytag's Pyramid — a dramatic structure that explains the sequential steps a story follows. Exposition: The setting is introduced, the mood or the atmosphere is set, backstory may be mentioned. He stood in the open courtyard. His tan loafers touched the freshly mopped marble floor. A large copper …
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She who snatches minuscule moments to smile in the face of adversities, and stubbornly chips away at negativities; She who is the fiercest knight of her own fairytale, And the staunchest supporter of her brood; She who doles out affirmations amidst the hardest of times, and shuts down a berating voice; She who infuses passion …
When I stand at my kitchen sink washing dishes greased with a welter of Indian curries and sticky dough, I let my mind wander to experience a more colorful palette than the turmeric and paprika floating around with the soap suds. Through those iridescent hollow spheres, I see the embellished sets, the ebullient characters, and …
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google After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’ -Anna Quindlen Gone are the times when women in their 40s were considered matronly, dry, unattractive and past their prime; […]
We are women, hence the strength to go on…. Way back in 1949, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, “I hesitated a long time before writing a book on woman,” De Beauvoir begins. “The subject is irritating, especially for women; and it is not new. Enough ink has flowed over the quarrel about feminism; it is now …
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Remember, you don’t have to be married to one genre. A lot of writers work in more than one field – sometimes they may be connected, other times not. So if you want to write a feature or ad copy while you work on that Great Novel, more power to you.
I’ve been asked more than once when my book was getting published. “I am not writing a book,” I said. Yet, I am a writer. There are many stereotypes attached to writers and the craft of writing. Not all writers are novelists and not all writers have an epiphany from heaven to create memorable pieces. …
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