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Writer, editor, and literary agent Scott Edelstein has done it all--and now this industry insider brings his valuable secrets to both beginning and established writers. Covering everything from building writing skills to dealing with editors to starting a writing business, this all-important guide will get you started and point you in the right direction. With matter-of-fact advice and encouragement from an expert, you'll get the information, inspiration, and guidance you need to write your best and begin a successful writing career.
Here's just the thing for anyone who's every said, "I wish I could become a writer," but hasn't the foggiest notion of how to begin. This smart new kit provides step-by-step direction and inspiration for potential writers. Included is Scott Edelstein's superb paperback, 30 Steps to Becoming a Writer, which takes the reader methodically through the process of getting thoughts on paper. Once the steps have been completed, it's time for Edelstein's miniature book, Get Published in 6 Months or Less. As a bonus feature, best-selling author Natalie Goldberg contributes a card deck, which offers 52 quick lessons and jumpstarts for overcoming writer's block and unleashing one's creativity. This unique combination of the practical and the inspirational makes The Complete Writer's Kit a program of real value to anyone with the urge to become a writer.
A wise and practical quickstart guide for anyone who wants—or already has—a spiritual teacher. The User’s Guide to Spiritual Teachers is a necessary book for anyone who has, or wants to have, a spiritual teacher—regardless of faith or tradition. This book addresses concerns that many of us have on the spiritual path, including how to find a spiritual teacher, how to manage expectations about what they can do, and what to do when you realize you’re in a dangerous relationship with one. Spiritual teachers of all traditions will themselves find this book incredibly useful as they reflect on how they benefit their students or may be overstepping their boundaries and actually creating harm. This is your place to look for information, inspiration, sanity, and words of caution.
Sex and the Spiritual Teacher looks at the complex of forces that tempt otherwise insightful, compassionate, and well-intentioned teachers to lose their way--and that tempt some of their students to lose their way as well. It analyzes why most of our current efforts to keep spiritual teachers from transgressing usually don't (and in fact can't) work. Perhaps most importantly, it suggests a set of practices and structures that can build community, encourage healthy student-teacher relationships, increase trust and spiritual intimacy between teachers and their students, and help authentic spiritual teachers stay happily monogamous or celibate. Sex and the Spiritual Teacher is for anyone who is or might become part of a spiritual community: students, teachers, clergy, lay leaders, and even casual visitors. It's a reader-friendly, no-nonsense guide to making spiritual life safer and fuller for all of us one person, relationship, and community at a time.
Part workbook, part inspirational guide, part information source, this book will give readers the foundation for starting to write. If readers follow along with the book and take the steps in order, they'll have conceived and written a manuscript that is ready for submission--and become a writer ready for new challenges.
Addresses in quick reference format the basics to conceiving, researching, writing, and marketing fiction and nonfiction, including such tips as conquering fears, doing business with editors, and legal matters
A unique stress-free approach for anyone who has ever wanted to write.
Tells how to assemble a proposal package for successful fiction publishing.
Discusses the signs and symptoms of borderline personality disorder and explains how the families and friends of patients can cope with BPD behavior while taking care of themselves.