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  • What Kids Need to Succeed
    • Four Foundations of Adult Achievement
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  • About Andrea
    • Training with Andrea
      • Trainer “To Go”
        • Speaker Intro
  • Contact
  • Resources & Good Ideas
    • Free Stuff for Parents
      • 49 Classic Clips: Parenting Articles
        • Movies with a Message
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      • Alcohol, Tobacco and Drug Abuse Resources for Families
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    Greets, tweets! Remember how much we all looked forward to the Weekly Reader? Well here’s your Weekly Tweeter! Relax, I know that not all of you are on Twitter. I find it a pretty good way to satisfy my curiosity and to connect with new people and their thoughts. And, if you read something from someone you’d like to see more of try a Facebook search. Or Google. In any event,  it might be fun to share some tweets that have piqued my interest in the…

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    “What if…” It’s the beginning of a question that can lead to a big goal or a daydream. It’s also an incredibly useful question for creative people is “What if…”  It is an important tool that can be used to open up the mind to possibilities and stir the creative pot. Novelists might ask questions about character and plot. “What if I change the gender of my main character?” or “What impact would this setting have on the story?” Writers of non-fiction might ask “what if” questions…

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    It took me a long time to become willing to be part of a writers’ group. Frankly, I’d heard some fairly awful things about them. I had heard such groups could be competitive and repetitive. That some groups were more in love with the idea of writing than getting anything done and that those meetings sounded more like a roomful of angsty teens than a bunch of grown-up word nerds trying to help one another improve. Whenever I’m trying to get better at something, I seek…

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