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What people are saying:
“[Our Endless and Proper Work is the] most thoughtful, engaging, encouraging book I’ve ever read about how hard it is to be a writer and why you should do it anyway.”
―New York Times bestselling author Sarah Knight
“A lot of writing advice just piles more expectations onto an already fraught process. In Our Endless and Proper Work, Ron Hogan helped me clear out the mental clutter around my writing and get back to basics. An accessible book that packs an impressive amount of wisdom and pragmatic advice into each chapter”
—Mason Currey, author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
“The Joy of Writing Journal consolidates Lisa’s expert advice and creative support in an accessible, engaging, and enjoyable guide that is a valuable resource whether you are journaling for personal wellbeing or using the prompts to build your muscles as a writer.”
—Jon Lieff, MD, author of The Secret Language of Cells
“The Joy of Writing Journal invites you to get into what researchers call flow and keeps you fully immersed in the joyful momentum of creation. Lisa Tener has helped thousands of people break through creative blocks and develop a fulfilling writing practice. With this creative journal she will help you do that, too.”
—Megan Gunnell, LMSW, Founder & Director, Thriving Well Institute
ABOUT RON HOGAN
Writer and editorial consultant Ron Hogan helps readers develop an ongoing writing practice as an end in and of itself, not a means to publication. Ron has been an industry analyst for a media website, a digital marketing director for a publishing house, a freelance book reviewer, and an acquiring editor for a startup book publisher. He is the founder of the literary site Beatrice, and creator of a popular newsletter about developing your writing practice, “Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives. Learn more about Ron at beatrice.com
ABOUT LISA TENER
Awarded the Silver Stevie for “Mentor/Coach of the Year” by the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, Lisa Tener is an inspiring book writing and publishing coach, author of the bestseller The Joy of Writing Journal: Spark Your Creativity in 8 Minutes a Day, entrepreneur and speaker. As “The Creativity Catalyst” Lisa Tener is known for helping visionaries, experts, entrepreneurs, creatives, healing professionals, therapists, coaches and people from all walks of life access their juiciest ideas, write in a state of flow and do their finest work. Lisa contributed a chapter to The Creativity Workbook for Coaches and Creatives (edited by Eric Maisel and published by Routledge). Her most recent book The Joy of Writing Journal is a hot new release in 5 Amazon categories and bestseller in 3! As a Book Coach, Lisa Tener helps with all aspects of book writing: from creating your book concept to writing and editing. She has specialized expertise with helping authors write successful book proposals. Learn more at lisatener.com
ABOUT SEAN MURPHY
Sean Murphy has been publishing fiction, poetry, reviews (of music, movie, book, food), and essays on the technology industry for more than twenty years. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and been quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Forbes, and AdAge. A long-time columnist for PopMatters, his work has also appeared in Salon, The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, The Good Men Project, Memoir Magazine, and others. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize two times, once for short fiction and once for poetry. His poems have been widely anthologized, including the collections Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era, This Is What America Looks Like, Lo-Fi Poetry Series: Poet Sounds, and Written in Arlington: Poems for Arlington, VA. Previous publications include the memoir Please Talk about Me When I’m Gone, the novel Not to Mention a Nice Life, and the non-fiction collections Murphy’s Law, Volumes One and Two. Learn more at seanmurphy.net
