by Sarah | Aug 4, 2014 | Creativity, Mindfulness, Resonant Storytelling, Writing
We’re all familiar with the law of diminishing returns: After a certain amount of time, the effort expended on a task yields fewer and fewer results. This is as true of creative work as it is of physical labor. And if you keep pushing, eventually both brain and body...
by Sarah | Apr 3, 2014 | Memoir, Nonfiction, Resonant Storytelling, Writing
One of the benefits of having worked in so many mediums – print, television, stage, online, stand-alone interactive and film – is that I’ve learned a variety of storytelling techniques that are transferable among platforms. There’s something in the combination of...
by Sarah | Mar 24, 2014 | Memoir, Nonfiction, Resonant Storytelling, Writing
If you’ve studied psychology (or ever watched a police procedural), you’ll know that microexpressions are split-second facial expressions that we’re not aware of making, but which reveal our true feelings about a given conversation. Although most people can’t...
by Sarah | Mar 5, 2014 | Editing, Memoir, Nonfiction, Resonant Storytelling, Writing
As writers, we work painstakingly to craft beautiful sentences, paragraphs and stories. And then there comes a time when an editor says we need to cut 1200 words, or a client wants us to “tighten it up,” and the horror of having to delete those beautiful pieces often...
