Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:34:15 +0000 Writing and publishing a book is an effective way to promote your business. Are you a public speaker,...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:03:23 +0000 Chicken, Old McDonald series, house paint and acrylic on board. www.carolineallen.com I’m a visual artist...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:17:13 +0000 Please welcome guest blogger and new Art of Storytelling intern Acea Spades Black.  In this blog, the...

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:05:25 +0000 The pianist, Yerevan, Armenia, www.carolineallen.com Here’s a trick for writing dynamic dialogue. A...

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:16:05 +0000 Sing it, sister, oil bar on paper, 15-minute painting series, www.carolineallen.com ALL WEEK, the theme...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:44:06 +0000 It’s more difficult to sum up writing fiction than it is writing memoir. Fiction can be too amorphous,...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:52:23 +0000 Missouri backyard after hunting season. Famous spiritual healers past and present talk about “letting go”...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:14:58 +0000 Art of Storytelling is offering an E-Course entitled International Novel/Memoir: Writing in English when...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:24:17 +0000 Guest blogger Julie Mannina discusses her novel about past and present lives, Rhamanta, in this ongoing...

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:50:17 +0000 On June 9, 2012, I hosted a reading of six memoir and fiction writers at Santoro’s Bookstore in Seatte....

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:35:00 +0000 I had a dream last night. A new writer stood on a cliff in a vast landscape, just at the edge of a...

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:43:58 +0000 I had a good friend in London in the early 1990s, Celia Goodyear, who worked with children with severe...

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:03:20 +0000 Many people have a profound need to write. Telling their story, whether through fiction or nonfiction,...

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:46:44 +0000 I have an art studio at the base of the apartment building where I live. It has windows to the street. A...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:16:32 +0000 Note to new writers: Because of the enormous discrepancy between the number of writers (millions) and the...

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:28:47 +0000 Evolving ourselves, owning our authentic voice, our authentic selves, may be the most important aspect of...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:00:59 +0000 I stood at the second story window, looking out, waiting for him. It was so cold. There was no way to...

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:36:35 +0000 In July of this year, I underwent surgery for a total thyroidectomy. It wasn’t cancer, just a thyroid...

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:25:31 +0000We’re hiring a professional writing coach/editor to work with clients of novel, memoir and nonfiction...

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:30:34 +0000 Seattle healer Ellen Newhouse (www.ellennewhouse.com) and I were working on a chapter of her memoir...