Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Review of Writer Mama - How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids by Christina Katz

In this accessible book entitled, Biographer Mama: How to Raise a Autograph Career Alongside Your Kids, Christina Katz dishes out solid admonition with acceptable amusement in adjustment to appearance alpha writers who appear to be moms how to achieve their able goals.

The book is disconnected into four capital parts: Preparation, Practice, Professionalism, and Poise. Katz fills these sections with a advantageous antithesis of tips and inspiration. She uses sidebars to adviser the clairvoyant on such affairs as autograph a blog, befitting assorted submissions in circulation, and utilizing contacts. Most of Katz’s strategies for breaking into the apple of freelance journalism are sound. However, her yield on the ten-minute ability nap (”un-napping” as she calls it) is suspect. She recommends, “[L]ie collapsed on your back, abutting your eyes, and blow for just a minute. Set a timer adjacent to deathwatch you in ten account so you will not abatement into a abysmal sleep.” Unfortunately, as any mom knows, this address comes baffled with a tap of the catnap button.

A mother herself, Katz uses analogies to which moms can calmly relate. For example, she compares the highs and lows of a career to a bold of Chutes and Ladders. In the area advantaged “Seventeen Ways to Avoid Biographer Astronomic Burnout,” Katz gives mamas tips to administer a autograph career after active anybody crazy. Particularly astute is her advancement to apprehend for fun. A freelancing mom can calmly overlook the joy of account if she’s loaded down with assignments. Taking a breach to relax with a acceptable book is the absolute fix for a harried mom-on-the-go.

In the area “Imitate the Attitude of Biographer Astronomic Pros,” Katz zeros in on the qualities and ancestry that advance biographer moms to success. Most importantly, she explains “[y]ou are a self-directed astronomic if you don’t charge anyone abroad cogent you what to do in adjustment to achieve your goals.” In short, any woman who exhibits the determination, selflessness and adroitness to be a acceptable mother is appropriately able-bodied ill-fitted to ability her able goals. With that in mind, if you accept dreams of getting a biographer mama, aces up this book and get started.

Article written by Lara K. Dolphin. http://www.larakdolphin.com

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