BY MARY WALKER BARON ​I lived with Alortha Aston during my sophomore year in high school.  My parents correctly reasoned that, since her husband, Lomax had r...

Back in the day there were a lot of hoops to jump through to get an LCCN (Library of Congress Cataloguing Number).  One of the hoops involved verifying that ...

It doesn’t matter if you are using a pen and paper, a pencil and paper, a typewriter, a computer or your phone you’ve still got to come up with that first wo...

By Mary Walker Baron So create a central character people will love and will neverforget.  Gifted and prolific novelist Lee Child has this to say, “One basic...

BY Mary Walker Baron Under United States copyright law your work is protected as soon as you put pen to paper or as soon as you start typing.  Copyright is b...

It’s really that simple.  Read what you want to write. Do you want to write self-help books?  Then read all the self-help books you can find.  Do you want to...

By Mary Walker Baron Structuring your story is not easy. You can make it easier, though, by reading The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. My cop...

By Mary Walker Baron This essay originally appeared in the Huffington Post on February 2, 2016. In the push toward and pull away from cycles of social justic...

One of the quickest ways to spend and lose money is by paying someone to tell you what to write and how to write it. Okay, I get it that we need to learn how...

By Mary Walker Baron We set goals for ourselves.  I will finish this article by Friday or I will finish writing my book in three months. All too often we don...

I like to see my name as the writer.  Despite that fact, I’m going to give ghostwriting a try even though I don’t expect to get any credit ever for what I gh...

By Mary Walker Baron I’ve decided to give ghostwriting a try.  The main reason for my decision is that writers need to write. I’m not a particularly discipli...

Let’s take a minute to consider those New Years’ resolutions we make every December 31st.  Just about every year we make the same resolutions.  The number on...

I’ve been thinking about becoming a ghost writer. My hesitation is that I like to get credit for my writing. I like to see the words ‘By Mary Walker Baron’. ...

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