Linda Barnett-Johnson

. Healing issues that impact your life... Read more. "I absolutely love this book!! I have the divine pleasure of getting to work with Kristine, and who she is shines through in this book. She has such a gift for articulating the truths that allow us to move from fear and ego, into light and love. And I love her reference stories in the book that help show how these healing modalities have worked for others and how they can work for you. A must read! And if you can, book a session with her! She is truly incredible." - Amazon Reader ​ Are you tired of feeling  consumed by anger or resentment  about your past?  Do you  suffer from addictions or other health problems  that seem linked to a longtime pattern of  stress, anxiety...

    As a writer, you may find that TV characters can be emotionally flat time and again. What sets them apart, even what gets the viewer to like them, is that we can see them. We see their facial expressions and how they react to other people and occurrences. We see their actions, which express motivations and emotion. We see the background scenery and how they act and react in such a setting. What we see on TV or in a film is exactly what many writers fail to include in their stories. Details we see in a picture don't have to be explained because we see them. When writing our stories and books, we must skillfully describe the important silent background details for the reader. A simplified example: If the reader doesn't know the character is caught out in a rainstorm, how will the reader know anything except that the character is walking down a street? We must describe the setting. If it was raining, don't stop there.   Was it a thundersto...

A magnificent time travel medical fantasy set in two different centuries Read more. "Dr. Timothy Cook  combines medical knowledge and personal experiences , within a refreshingly new fantasy tale that is like nothing you will have encountered before. Appealing to a wide-readership, this fascinating insight into the life of a Doctor is  inspiring and illuminating, for it captures two very different time frames and experiences.  Amid the  spine-chilling suspense and engaging mystery  is a heart-warming tale of two physicians connected across the ages with the same goal in mind.  Compelling and profoundly insightful, the first book of Drachma is a stirring read. ~Luicinda ​ What does being a doctor really feel like? What is it like to get called out in th...

By Carolyn Howard-Johnson Borrowed from Carolyn’s free  #SharingwithWriters newsletter  that has been helping writers succeed since 2003. In a public e-mail to her clients, someone near and dear to me (an expert) said most people look at the first two lines of an email. That’s it. They aren’t interested in fishing through pages of post-signature blather. People need to have ways to learn about you, not reasons to put up shields.” She advised three or four lines, tops. Boy, did that set me off. So, these people we send mail to are in such a hurry that they’d rather spend time looking up in dozens of places for the information that could just as easily have been in the contact’s e-mail signature?  Here’s my rant-er . . . rebuttal:   My old friend, I so disagree with this.  For one thing, there are no fast rules. Much depends on the genre an author writes in. Another depends on the author’s personality. But more than that, I view a signature as ...

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One of the most difficult accomplishments in writing is to get a certain character’s dialect and accent correct. When you include foreign characters in your story, it’s imperative that your reader know they have an accent relative to the country or locale from which they hail. Be attentive to these nuances or all your characters will sound like you. An author who is not a linguist or grammarian may have a certain limited capability at using the English language. Without expanding your knowledge or simply using a Thesaurus, you will find yourself repeating the same words and phrases over and over. Let’s take the example of a foreign accent. Your character’s manner of speech will be greatly affected by the way you describe that person and the nuances of the country of their birth. Say you’ve set up your character as being from France. Maybe he dresses in fine French clothes, is real dapper and has European table manners. Beyond that, have him use French phrases like mon cher...