Writing on the Run: The Natural Way to Write Any Time, Any Place
Millions of Americans (81 percent) say they have a book they want to write. Now, they can achieve this goal by finding time and space in their busy lives with a provocative and unique approach to writing the natural way.
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) July 9, 2004 -- Although 81 percent of the American
people want to write a book, most of them don’t believe they have the time.
“Writing on the Run™ Tip of the Week” offers one quick, practical, inspiring,
and creative idea each week to help professional and aspiring writers make time
and space for writing. Each tip also contains an inspiring quote about the
writing life from a successful author. To subscribe to this free e-mailed letter
or to enter a 100-word idea in the Writing on the Run Contest (with cash prizes
and no entry fee) go to www.writingontherun.com. While there, download "101 Tips for
Writing on the Run," take the "Pet Personality Quiz for Writers," or make a
selection from the "Guilt-Free Writing Checklist of Excuses."
Allen and
Linda Anderson, long-time writing instructors at The Loft Literary Center in
Minneapolis, have found creative ways to keep writing while raising a family,
working day jobs, traveling, and coping with health and financial challenges.
The Andersons’ writing class students were always lamenting that they'd like to
write more but didn't have the time. So the Andersons started sharing their
unconventional ways for writing, publishing and marketing books.
Learning
to “write on the run” paid off well for their writing students and for the
Andersons. Asked by publisher, New World Library, to write an ongoing series of
books, the Andersons are now established, best-selling authors. ANGEL ANIMALS:
Exploring Our Spiritual Connection with Animals, ANGEL CATS: Divine Messengers
of Comfort, and GOD'S MESSENGERS: What Animals Teach Us about the Divine are
their first books.
The Andersons' work has twice been featured on NBC's
The Today Show and also on ABC's Nightly News with Peter Jennings. They have
been the subject of national wire service articles and interviews in London
newspapers and by BBC Radio. To help others (such as lawyers, doctors, nurses,
teachers, truck drivers, and domestic goddesses), they publish the free “Writing
on the Run Tip of the Week.” Their Website and Tips have recently been
recommended by Writer's Digest's e-mail newsletter resulting in thousands of
daily visitors to their Website.
Allen Anderson says, "Most people who
aspire to the writing life have to figure out how to fit it into busy schedules,
full households, and loads of self-doubt. We can relate to this push-pull tug of
wanting to write but not having the time or even, the confidence. When our
children were young, I worked the “graveyard” shift in public safety. Linda had
the demanding responsibility of being the literary manager for a regional
theater. In addition to chauffeuring our children and pets to appointments and
trying to have quality family time, we each wrote in the early morning and late
evening hours."
In 1996, the Andersons formed themselves into a writing
team and began to write, publish, and promote their first Website www.angelanimals.net,
printed newsletter, book proposal, and book. To work as a team, they had to
become even more proficient at Writing on the Run™.
At the Writing on the
Run Website the Andersons provide answers to age-old questions about why people
write:
--Writing is how many of us understand and complete the experiences of
our lives.
--Studies have proven that writing is an antidote to depression;
people who write about their painful life experiences recover from them more
easily and quickly.
--Writing becomes a lifeline of communication to people
all over the world.
--Writing can provide additional, even full-time,
income.
--Writing provides an enjoyable way to express thoughts, feelings,
and insights – even if it’s only to yourself.
Linda Anderson says, "For
me, learning to write on the run has offered a natural way to write any time,
any place. I now view life as my page. I've learned how to make writing an
integral part of every day without sacrificing family, social, and personal
relationships."
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