Improve Your Writing with NLP

Dr Judy Pearson is a free spirit, pursuing all the things she loves to do. After decades of working as a project manager, employee assistance program provider, and a psychotherapist, today she is an author, freelance writer and copy editor, She has published four books (three with Crown House Publishing Ltd.) and over 200 articles, reviews, and interviews in magazines, newsletters and blogs. She is currently a co-editor for the Trafalgar Chronicle, the international research journal of The 1805 Club; copyeditor for the online International Journal of Naval History of the Naval Historical Society, Washington, D.C., and a frequent contributor to the newsletter for the Naval Order of the United States. She works privately with non-fiction authors to edit and refine their manuscripts and with publishers to edit galley proofs.

• Table of Contents: Foreword by Richard Bolstad Introduction: What Does NLP have to do with Writing? One Writer's Path: My Story NLP Enriches the Writing Process What is NLP? NLP is about Mental Strategies - Mindsets Anchoring: Change Your Behavior by Changing Your Mindset NLP Principles for Writing The NLP Success Formula - for Writing Chapter 1: How Does it Feel To Be a Writer? Environment: Where You Write Behavior: What You Do Capability: Your Know-how Beliefs that Support Success Identity: Step into the Writer's Role Spirituality: Share Your Message What do You Believe? How Will You Know? Chapter 2: Get Organized with the POWER Process Model Previewing Organizing Writing Evaluating Revising Chapter 3: Get the Right Mindset With The Disney Creativity Model The Dreamer The Realist The Critic Combining and Comparing the Three Approaches The Creativity Cycle Chapter 4: For The Dreamer: Romance Your Idea Accessing the Dreamer State Creativity Emerges from Living with an Idea Develop Your Idea: The Mindmap and Storyboard It's Preview Time Chapter 5: For The Realist: Blast Past Writer's Block Check Your Ecology at the Door: Reframing Writer's Block Limiting Beliefs: Taming the Dragons of Fear Accessing the Realist State Four Tips to Get Beyond Writer's Block Move Away from Writer's Block Chapter 6: For The Realist: Get On Task and Stay There Get Hooked on Writing with the New Behavior Generator Make Writing Irresistible with the NLP Godiva Chocolate Pattern Get into Action with the Mind-to-Muscle Pattern Walk Your Future Time Line to Develop Positive Expectations Flow: Write with Your Brain in Alpha Frequency Meet Your Future Self - A Published Author! Chapter 7: For The Realist: Write For Your Reader Describe Your Target Reader Take Your Readers' Perspective with the NLP Perceptual Shift Openings: Grab Their Attention Choose Words that Match Sensory Modalities Lead Readers Where You Want Them to Go Tell a Story Closings: Leave Readers with Something to Remember Chapter 8: For The Critic: Evaluate and Revise Expertly Bring on the Critic! Perform Top-Down Analysis Clarify Meaning with the NLP Meta Model Take a Skeptical Reader's Position Chapter 9: Get Feedback and Cope With Criticism Feedback: How to Get it Responding Resourcefully to Criticism Recover Quickly from a Mistake A Second Opinion Won't Hurt Chapter 10: Write Hypnotically Transderivational Search: Hypnotic Language and the Mind The Psychology of Hypnotic Language: What Makes it Different? What Marketers Know Sound Bites of Hypnotic Language Take Your Writing into the Hypnotic Dimension Chapter 11: Write Prolifically Make Your Writing Environment Efficient Plan Your Work Manage Your Time Keep the Ideas Flowing! Write to Fulfill a Larger Purpose