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Getting It Write Joy Dekok’s Personal writing Achievements Coaching vs Mentoring:
Getting It Write Do you want to discover and then what matters most? Are you wondering what’s up in the publishing world and where you fit in? Then…you might be at the right place! As an author coach, I help people write what matters most and discover their publishing options.
Joy Dekok’s Personal writing Achievements My personal writing achievements include: traditional or royalty publishing, I’m a partner and VP of Marketing and Promotions at Sheaf House Publishing, I also self publish electronic and audio courses via my own company, believe publishing and my children’s books are published with Seraphina Press and Jaberwacky Books. I am now ready to reach out professionally to authors eager to do what it takes to turn their dreams into their destiny.
Coaching vs Mentoring: A Coach is someone you trust to ask you questions that lead you to discover, define, and design your writing career. This service is writer focused. The Discovery and Destiny Packages are coaching packages A Mentor is someone you trust to direct your writing. This service is manuscript focused. The Manuscript Package is a mentoring package

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The Destiny Coaching Package is a longer 6 month commitment and often includes but is not limited to the following author achievements:

Writers find and devote time to writing what matters most to them. They determine their writing process, define success their way, design a marketing plan, and decide on a publishing option.

Understanding

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We wall want it – understanding. It has move value to some of us than great wealth.

You know how it is – in the heat of a disagreement, you want to be heard and understood. You believe something deeply and you want others to understand why. You want to over come prejudice and injustice and are certain if the world at large understood, everything would change.

Understanding is priceless.

I used to think you had to holler to get heard. Now I know the power of a whisper.  I long to understand and to be understood whether I need to speak out loud or offer a quiet comment.

Sometimes, no one is listening.

So, I follow the advice of Lawrence Clark Powell. . .

 ”Write to be understood, speak to be heard, and read to grow. . .”

Mr.Powell was a librarian, literary critic, and the author of more than 100 books. He understood somethings and wanted to share them with the world through the written word. He did.

I have a list of things I believe in, want others to understand about me, and that hints at the secret places of my heart. It’s a dangerous list – it holds within it demands of intentional authenticity and courage. Perhaps if I write them, I can still keep them to myself. They can be found when I’m dead and I won’t have to live heart-naked right now.

Then again, maybe not.

Do you have a list?

 

Honey

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I’ve recently discovered I like honey – a little bit. In tea. Baked into cereal (the kind that comes that way). And as medicine – I take it to alieviate allergies – I take a tablespoon of raw honey havested in this area. Raw is best. I know this sounds weird, but I can sort of taste the flowers the bees landed on and the air they flew in. Not really, but there’s something in there that tastes that way. I enjoy watching bees, but prefer to stay out of their way.

I call Jon honey and mean it. The man is sweet and good for me.

It’s this quote that got me honey thinking today:   

“If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.”
Dale Carnegie

Who doesn’t want to gather honey in life in the form of positive feedback from our loved ones and business contacts? I’ve never been a beehive kicker although I’ve watched a few. At first it looked like their personal and professional lives were flourishing. Then, their family, friends, and clients got sick of the kicks and the success of these people was destroyed by a swarm of losses.

Honey gatherers are not not into sweet talk, false statements, lies, and flattery.

They know raw honey is delicious, satisfying, healthy, earthly, life giving, and real.

I believe if I write, publish, and marketing authentically – with genuine enthusiasm, and respect for my readers and clients (current and potential) I’ll gather honey. If I disrepsect them, I’m gonna get stung. Every time.

How do you gather honey?

 

 

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