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Worried About Your Teen Getting Into College? Consider Music Lessons

by MKMarketing | Feb 7, 2017 | Freelance Writing, Your highest potential

The following is an excerpt from my article, Worried About Your Teen Getting Into College? Consider Music Lessons, published on HuffingtonPost.com on February 2, 2017: Gaining mastery over any challenge your teen may face – sports, travel abroad, or acing AP Math –...

The Writer’s 3 Step Practice for Improved Health and Creativity

by MKMarketing | May 8, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Your highest potential

If you’re a writer, chances are you spend hours crouched before your computer’s screen. It’s a potentially sedentary lifestyle, writing, but there are simple steps we writers can take to boost our health, creativity and sense of well-being. If we...

Food, glorious food. NEW Studies promoting red wine and chocolate for unexpected uses

by MKMarketing | Aug 22, 2012 | Your highest potential

One of my favorite phenomenons is an unexpected stroke of brilliance from a most unlikely source. A couple of awesomesauce items came out of the 244thNational Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society. I picture with suspicion such conferences...

Self-doubt and writing: amicable partners?

by MKMarketing | Sep 20, 2010 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Guest posts

It’s Monday morning, and I am dragging myself through the mud. Am I making any progress?  Is what I’m writing any good, any good whatsoever? Over the weekend, my husband and I had the rare opportunity to enjoy a date night. It was a beautiful evening, so...

5 Tips for Writing More, Writing Better. Cultivating a laser-beam focus

by MKMarketing | Jun 28, 2010 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Freelance Writing, Guest posts, Who is Writing What?

Last week, we lost our Internet connection for more than two full days. The initial shock rendered me temporarily immobile. What could I possibly do? I couldn’t work without connection to the outside world…. could I? No, the pain and discomfort was too...
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