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March 30th, 2020

Susan Shapiro – Finding Your Muse During the Pandemic

  1. Susan Shapiro – Finding Your Muse During the Pandemic Amazing Women and Men Of Power 32:27

So now you’ve got a lot of time on your hands. Assuming you’re healthy and not in any danger, what do you do? Maybe you’re thinking it’s time to write that book that’s been in your head forever. Is it a good idea? How do you know? And how to you go from idea to manuscript to publication?

I posed these questions to someone who would know. Susan Shapiro is a New York Times best selling author and long-time writing teacher who teaches her students not only how to create good literature but how to market it successfully. During our conversation on Dream Power Radio, Susan speaks about:
• the subject matter editors are looking for
• how to know if your idea would interest others
• where to get ideas
• how to deal with rejection

If you’ve ever thought of writing for publication, you won’t want to miss this episode of Dream Power Radio.

Susan Shapiro is an award-winning writing professor, freelances for the NY Times, NY Magazine, WSJ, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Elle & Oprah.com. She's the bestselling author/coauthor of 12 books her Family hates including Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, Unhooked, The Bosnia List & the new inspiring writing guide The Byline Bible. She and her husband, a scriptwriter, live in Greenwich Village, where she teaches her popular “instant gratification takes too long” classes at The New School, NYU and in private workshops & seminars.

www.susanshapiro.net

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Debbie Spector Weisman is the host of the podcast Dream Power Radio and an awesome podcast guest. She has incorporated the knowledge gleaned from her professional work and as a wife and mother into her Dream-Life Coaching practice, which she calls her “third career”. In addition to her private coaching work, Debbie has been the co-owner of a film and video production company which was instrumental in the production of dozens of films including the groundbreaking film What the Bleep Do We Know!?, and the spiritual documentary Dreaming Heaven. Debbie is also the best-selling author of over 20 novels, including five of the original books in the popular Sweet Valley High series. She credits her dream work with inspiring her to return to writing. Her most recent books include 101 Dream Dates: How to Say I Love You to the Most Important Person in Your Life--You! and the best-seller It Came Out of My Vagina, Now What?!, co-written with Betsy Chasse. She is also featured in the books Chicken Soup For The Soul: Dreams and Premonitions, My Creative Thoughts, Recipes for Living, Careers from the Kitchen Table, Dancing in the Unknown and Dreams That Change Our Lives. Debbie is a member of the International Association for the Studiy of Dreams. Learn more about her at www.thedreamcoach.net