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Writing or creativity of any kind is a mysterious process, a journey into deep and unchartered waters. What you need is a compass… the Tarot.

Category: The Business of Creativity

Make a Plan for Launching and Promoting Your Creative Work

MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 7-29-2024 Theme, 8 of Coins. Coins is the element of Earth in the realm of home, health, and wealth, anything physical. Eight is a number of movement and momentum. As you approach the completion of a creative project or phase, it’s time to make

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Time to Manifest Your Creative Idea into Reality with Success

MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 3/25/2024 Theme, King of Coins. Coins is the element of Earth in the realm of home, health, wealth, anything physical. The King is the master of the element. This king is successful at making ideas and concepts real, and then generously sharing the success

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Launch a New Creative Project

MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 2/20/2017 Theme, Ace of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire in the realm of spirit, creativity, career, and work. Ace is the beginning, the seed. In Wands, Ace is the new creative project that carries passion and energy with it. This week, be

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Is Your Journal Analog, Digital, Video or…?

One recent Sunday morning I woke early and, creeping downstairs to my studio, decided to use the time to clean out some email from my Sent box since the number had climbed into the thousands. As I read through emails I’d sent from as far back as 2009, I deleted

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Create but Don’t Forget to Promote

And that is what writing is about. Love. Love of the art, love of the story, and love for and from the people who really understand your work. Nobody else matters. Love yourself. Love your work. Be brave. Just write. Melodie Ramone Last weekend, Bob and I attended the NAMS14

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Do I Scare You?

I’m working on a re-design of my site and recently someone suggested that I might want to leave out any mention of the tarot and perhaps even the dream work if I didn’t want to scare potential clients away. Point taken, but… After years playing down certain aspects of my

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Are Your Tools Your Rules?

At the recent Writer’s Digest Annual Conference, Tim Grahl, author and book marketer for well-known authors like Dan Pink, spoke about building platform and connecting authentically with readers. He advised his listeners to not confuse the tools of social media with being the rules. I straightened in my seat when

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Are You Shrinking Yourself? Another Lesson from Alice

“Are you content now?” said the Caterpillar. “Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if you wouldn’t mind,” said Alice: “three inches is such a wretched height to be.” Remember when, after Alice in Wonderland falls down the rabbit hole she discovers a doorway that opens into

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Can You Happy Talk?

Happy talk, keep talking happy talk, / Talk about things you’d like to do… “South Pacific” According to the IRS, a business is something you engage in with the intent to make a profit. For creatives that means you intend to make a profit from your products or performances or

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Creative Marketing Lessons from Classic Cars

Several weeks ago, as Bob, Jason and I walked around Carmel photographing the many sports cars temporarily at curbside rest before auctions, races, and the Concours D’Elegance, I realized how quickly I was able to determine, if not the year, at least the make and style of varying sports cars,

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