by Linda Sivertsen | Apr 5, 2017 | Inspiration & Motivation
Hey, hey! I can’t wait to share this FUN, 6-minute audio excerpt I taped the other day with Arielle Ford—about how to manifest your Soulmate Literary Agent + Publisher. Our call, for the Expert’s Series of the Beautiful Writers Group was over an hour, but this short...
by Linda Sivertsen | Sep 14, 2016 | Favorites, Inspiration & Motivation
Sometimes I forget that I write books… forget that this is how it started. All this bookmama-retreat-giving-editing-brainstorming-proposal-midwifery-podcastery-app business began pen to page. For me. Through me. My always companion. I imagine my nine-year-old...
by Linda Sivertsen | Aug 7, 2015 | Inspiration & Motivation
Hello Beautiful Writer! Some of you know I take every July off to work on my latest book (“going dark to write,” I call it), and I’m home from Alaska and New York, where I was in heavy memoir rewrites. It always takes me about 10 days to get into the...
by Linda Sivertsen | May 13, 2015 | Favorites, Inspiration & Motivation
There’d been a big auction. Her memoir was about to drop in stores nationwide and become a New York Times bestseller. Twenty+ years of daily writing practice and pie-in-the-sky dreams were about to be realized. “I’m scared,” she wrote to me. “After all these years of...
by Linda Sivertsen | Dec 23, 2014 | Inspiration & Motivation
Sometimes trying to get the 10,000 foot view on my computer screen makes me loco. Coo coo for cocoa puffs. Even my beloved Stickie and Evernote notes overwhelm. Too small. Too crowded. Too much. Ever get so busy living your creative life–flitting from writing...
by Linda Sivertsen | Dec 18, 2014 | Inspiration & Motivation
That’s my pops, Alfred Eugene Tisch, on his birthday circa 1999. We were in Carmel-by-the-Sea. My sister, Carol, snapped this moment I’ll forever cherish after we’d annihilated Dad’s German chocolate cake, leaving only a few shavings of...