Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:00:02 +0000 Guest Blogger Audrey Chin is the South-East-Asian author of As the Heart Bones Break, a  novel about Vietnam’s wars and the aftermath.In this post she defends her right to write about “the other”.  Provocative and passionate, this essay asks the important questions – Who  can claim to represent a character? What makes for an authentic inside-a-culture work? The unasked question simmered — “Who are you…

Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:34:43 +0000 FREE Writing Teleseminar Thursday, March 13th, 7 pm Eastern. Go here to sign up:  http://artoflivinghappy.com/3-tragic-truths-sign-up/ Who are you to think you can write a book? Who cares what you have to say? How will you ever finish something that will be more than 300 pages long? Nobody is going to publish the thoughts of some unknown person. Are you sure you want to spend years…

Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:08:44 +0000 Spring Coaching Special! Half off the first month You want to write a book, and you don't know where to begin. Or you've written half a manuscript ,and now you're stuck. Thursday, March 20th is the first day of spring. In celebration of renewal and rebirth, AofS is offering a special. If you sign up between Thursday and April 1st, we'll give you half off…

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:50:21 +0000You haven’t set a scheduled time to write. I know, I know, you only write when you’re inspired. Inspire yourself by setting a regular writing schedule. With the hundreds of people we’ve taught at Art of Storytelling and the dozens we’ve coached on their books, we find again and again that those who finish and publish their books are those who have a regular writing schedule.…

Sun, 06 Apr 2014 16:40:47 +0000 Art of Storytelling is a coaching service for writers of novels and memoir. We've worked with people all over the world to help them finish their books. Contact us for a free initial consultation. www.artofstorytellingonline.com Why are so many people these days across the globe wanting to write their novels and memoirs in English? At Art of Storytelling we keep meeting these writers -- from India, Russia,…

Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:55:58 +0000Art of Storytelling Founder Caroline Allen at a public fiction reading for Art of Storytelling. ART OF STORYTELLING is holding a FREE Webinar: Top 5 Tips for Telling the Story of Your Business with Authenticity to Attract More Clients on June 25th at 12:30 p.m. US Pacific Time. “How can I help?” is a profound concept in Deepak Chopra’s book Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. In this…

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:33:26 +0000 Besides being owner of Art of Storytelling and a novelist at CarolineAllen.com, I'm also a metaphysical coach, and I do readings for people all over the world. What follows is a reading channeled for all of us. Passenger planes shot down, bombings in Palestine and Israel, children sent over national borders by desperate mothers trying to protect them from growing violence, the lingering financial crisis, environmental chaos --…

Thu, 07 Aug 2014 00:52:24 +0000 A week ago or so I did a blog on how to stay in the light when the world has grown so dark. I used tarot and channeled the message, and afterwards I had all sorts of epiphanies. When you channel it’s a lot like doing psychedelics; it opens you up to epiphany after epiphany. What came to me was that a lot of people…

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:55:44 +0000My first novel EARTH has found a publisher (I will wait until I sign on the dotted line to say more), and it seems interesting to me that just as my literary efforts come to fruition, just as my story of the woes of growing up in brutal Missouri begin to reach a wider audience, Ferguson, Missouri explodes into protests and violence.Earth describes how brutal and intractable…

Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:50:12 +0000 The next Art of Storytelling, What's Your Story E-Course for new writers starts October 8th. Join us! It's a soulful transformation from linear mind to creative flow. By the end of six weeks, you'll have a rough piece you can use as an essay, a short story, an opening to a novel or the beginning of a memoir. And these exercises will blow open your…