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5 Keys Fast Track Writing Program

Greetings Everyone,

The “5 Keys Fast Track Writing Program” is available for getting your project done.

Have you been procrastinating?

Do you need a supportive environment to make progress?

You’ve come to the right place.

“5 Keys Fast Track Program” is independent study with me. Once a month we have Zoom calls to meet other Fast Trackers and members of my JKC Coaching group who have graduated from the “5 Keys to Create Captivating Writing” courses.

In Fast Track, you receive the same  handouts you would receive in the main courses, editing done by me, and access to me via email during the time you are in it. After you complete the handouts for the first course, you are eligible for the second Fast Track course, and then the third.

If you choose, after you graduate from the three Fast Track courses, you can join the coaching program.

Here are links to books by three authors who were in the “5 Keys to Create Captivating Writing.”

Patricia Bumpass, Jump into Positivity ~ 35 Quotes and Affirmations to Empower Women to Love Themselves  https://amzn.to/3LrJ4xi

Carole A. MacLean, Believe/Practice/Chose  ~ The Gift of Self Care: 21 Tips for Your Self Care Tool Belt
https://amzn.to/3a68ofa

Rex Bohachewski, What He Meant ~ 57 Phrases of Inspiration from My Dad

https://amzn.to/39rpbsy

 

Here is the link for “5 Keys to Create Captivating Writing” courses and “5 Keys to Fast Track” writing course.

http://bit.ly/WriteWithJKC

Join us now.

Julaina Kleist

 

 

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Books to Help You Laugh and Celebrate Life

Take a break from these worrisome times. Laugh and celebrate when you read these two recommended books.

Roberta Gold’s The Family that Laughs Together . . . A Quick Guide to Sanity When You Feel Like Screaming is filled with real life scenarios and alternative reactions to stressful interactions. Gold recommends finding ways to respond with laughter instead of anger. “We can make it easier on ourselves and our children by finding ways to laugh every day.” Here is a guide for having a happier, more engaged family life.

Roberta Gold is a Recreation Therapist and Certified Humor Professional. With her unique school program, Laughter Rocks! Roberta provides strategies that foster an environment which promotes positive feelings, self worth and fun.

https://amzn.to/2UA9jJu

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sherry Richert Belul’s Simply Celebrate . . . 101 Simple Ways to Turn Ordinary Days into an Extraordinary Life is a whimsical book of ideas for bringing celebration into everyday life. Belul offers simple things people can do to make their days livelier, more fun, more generous, and more spontaneous.

She helps people appreciate who they are and the people they love through customized tribute books and other one-of-a-kind gifts that inspire us to celebrate, share, and build beautiful relationships. Don’t wait; say it now.

Belul and her beau host Bubble Flash Mobs to bring delight to strangers. She is also a high performance coach who helps people live their best lives by listening deeply, loving better, and living their dreams in the present moment.

https://amzn.to/2wrIJu1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out these books written by friends of mine. You’ll be happy you did.

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

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Book Recommendation Ardent Spirit by J. K. Royce

Julie Royce gave a copy of her book, Ardent Spirit, to a mutual friend. About a month later, I gave the same friend a copy of my book, Captivate Audiences to Create Loyal Fans. The friend is on staff where I teach my writing classes. She was happy Julie and I shared our books with her since she knows Julie is in my class and is curious about what we writers do in it on Mondays.

As the friend clutched the copy of my book, she said that although she doesn’t usually read historical fiction, she enjoyed Julie’s book so much she couldn’t put it down. She FELT like the protagonist, Magdelaine La Framboise.

I shared the friend’s comment with Julie when we met for lunch and I said, “Julie, the reader, feeling like the main character, is exactly what we aim to create in our writing!”  We celebrated the success with her book, which has been selling more copies than she expected would happen. Click here.

J.K. Royce

Amazon’s description is “Magdelaine Marcotte La Framboise was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame in 1984. Two centuries after her birth, she was recognized for her achievements in business. She is a role model, an inspiration and a woman who earned a rightful place in history.

“Born Magdelaine Marcotte in 1780, she was the daughter of a French fur trader and granddaughter of powerful Odawa Chief Kewanoquat. Haunted first by the murders of her father and husband, and then the untimely deaths of her daughter and infant grandson, the illiterate widow defied the social customs and expectations of the era. With unflinching courage and an ardent spirit, she charted her own bold course through the male dominated Great Lakes fur trade.” Click here to order the book.

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Captivate Audiences to Create Loyal Fans Click here.


 

 

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What Are You Reading?

 

I plan Sunday mornings for hours of reading. Then about noon, we go to the farmers’ market to shop organic and Starbucks to read some more.

 

Today, I balanced my time between When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi and Marilyn Steele’s The Wild Feminine.

 

 

 

A member of our reading  group chose When Breath Becomes Air which is an amazing book about a thirty-six year old neurosurgeon who was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.   Click here.

 

 

 

 

 

Amazon states: “In The Wild Feminine, Jungian psychologist and artist Marilyn Steele, Ph.D. weaves personal and archetypal stories and dreams together for a soulful and inspiring call to action. Through poignant, humorous, and deeply felt presentations of her life, Marilyn strikes a chord with all of us in whom the Wild Feminine is ready to emerge. These stories are designed to awaken a feminine consciousness and bring wild feminine power and wisdom back to the world. In this book, we see how to open to mystery and learn to trust our inner wisdom.

Marilyn and I met at Starbucks on Saturday to talk about our progress in producing what we are learning about in an on-line class we take together. I told her before lights out at night, I like to read a chapter from The Wild Feminineclick here .

In skilled prose, Marilyn writes about the time she lived in the S.F. East Bay hills with redwood trees and hummingbirds, a stag, and other animals. The stories tell about her struggles, accomplishments, and what brings her peace. They are motivating, at times humorous, and filled with “transformative wisdom.”

In the chapter called, “Listening with the ear of your heart,” Marilyn tells about the stag outside who visits her cottage and the stag in her dream. “The stag moves easily between the living and the dream worlds, especially at Samhain, the Celtic New Year. This is the time of no-time, when the veils are thinnest.”

The stag, for her, is “a spiritual pathfinder, this gentle warrior who integrates masculine and feminine energies. Showing me that life’s mysteries, usually hidden, want to be seen and known. We seek a wild peace.”

I highly recommend both books, click on the direct links above if you are interested in them.

 

What are your reading?

 

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Captivate Audiences to Create Loyal Fans

Written Across the Genres

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Join Paula Chinick As She Looks For A Job

Paula Chinick wrote a life experience for my recent book, Captivate Audiences to Create Loyal Fans. She titled it “Best of Times.” It’s about the loss of her job and looking for a new one. Chinick used scenes and showed body language to reveal emotion. “I recall an ache in my stomach as if a boulder had slammed into it and then my mind went numb.”

Follow her growth arc from anxiety in the beginning to freedom at the end in Captivate Audiences to Create Loyal Fans. Click here.

 

Chinick is an award-winning thriller writer, known for her Red Asscher series. Red Asscher, Living in Fear is the first in the series Click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Red Asscher, Living in Turmoil is the second book click here.

The third installment, Living in War will be available in a few weeks.

I enjoyed Chinick’s books. The settings made me feel like I have visited 1943 China along with Anya, the protagonist. I worried about how she would survive, I could hear the enemy’s boots coming closer to where she hid, and I wondered which of the people she met could be trusted.

Plus these book covers make attractive additions to my book shelf. I’m looking forward to seeing the third cover.

Chinick’s publishing company, Russian Hill Press, has published numerous novels ranging from romance to poetry with more than half of the authors winning awards for their novels.  https://www.russianhillpress.com

 

 

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

#1 Amazon Best seller Captivate Audiences to Create Loyal Fans

Written Across the Genres

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