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…

Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:22:56 +0000Last week, I wrote a blog on my thoughts on the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. I grew up in the state and my first novel EARTH (due out in 2015) is set there.I keep coming back to the level of  "black and white" thinking that goes on in my birth state. It isn't my intention to make a racial statement with the phrase, although somehow metaphorically this may…

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…

Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:09:55 +0000 We're holding a raffle to attract people to my new Caroline Alllen, Author Facebook fan page. Earth, my first novel will be published in February 2015! Click this link below, and Rafflecopter will guide  you through the process of liking my page, and following me on Twitter, and you'll be entered to win this 9x12 original watercolor I painted. To see more about my novels…

Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:36:43 +0000 This Little Piggy, painting in progress, www.carolineallen.com I'm feeling called to write about an artistic healing I've been going through. I'd rather not share something so personal, but the universe is asking me to. I think the idea is that if you see what one artist/writer goes through, perhaps you'll be better able to understand your own process.I recently launched an art project called Beauty of the…

Thu, 08 Aug 2013 21:31:13 +0000In working recently with a gifted screenplay writer on the revision of one of his scripts, I realized that there's a common psychological path when it comes to revision (whether it's a novel, memoir or screenplay) that shows up with all my clients.First let me make it clear that as a writing coach, I don't do the revision for the client. I partner with them creatively,…

Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:34:24 +0000 What do the Arab Spring, recent protests in Turkey, Egypt and Brazil and the Occupy movement have to do with you as a writer? What significance do these revolutionary waves of protests across the globe have to the basics of storytelling in the world?Writ large on the world stage is the voice of change, the voice of authentic expression, voices that say no to a power…