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Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 12, 2018
2 min

Innovation Markers: The Write Metric

◊ ◊ ◊ Not everything that can be counted matters and not everything that matters can be counted. William Bruce Cameron ◊ ◊ ◊ Page count,...

Purse Prompts: Getting Carried Away with Writing

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 5, 2018
2 min

Purse Prompts: Getting Carried Away with Writing

The purse. Women love to buy them, talk about them, and brag about their attributes. We compliment each other on them, ask if we can...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Nov 28, 2018
2 min

As Whales Do

Gina Greenlee photo: Whale watching on New Zealand’s Kaikoura Coast, June 2000 ◊ ◊ ◊ Years ago, while still new in my journey of teaching...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Nov 21, 2018
1 min

Do It For Love

Get Excited Often, when we set out to “WRITE” we stumble because we are removed from the writing itself. We approach it like a 10th grade...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Nov 14, 2018
3 min

Golf, Bob Dylan, and How to Lead

Fortune Magazine, December 2016 issue; How to Lead Like Zuck by Adam Lashinsky: “Ideas typically do not just come to you,” said Mark...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Nov 7, 2018
2 min

Perfume, Street Gangs and Vampires

So what if your idea isn’t “new.” Don’t be afraid to take a new swing at an old ball. The 1937 Hungarian play, Parfumerie by Miklos...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 31, 2018
4 min

“Perfection Isn’t that Interesting…”

It is more interesting to do things with sincerity and a certain quirkiness,” said late, renowned chef Charlie Trotter. “With perfection,...

Cookin’ the Books: Sizzling Recipes to Spice Up Your Writing

Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 24, 2018
5 min

Cookin’ the Books: Sizzling Recipes to Spice Up Your Writing

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from...

(Pain Free) Tricks for (Monkey Mind) Traps

Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 17, 2018
1 min

(Pain Free) Tricks for (Monkey Mind) Traps

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Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 10, 2018
5 min

Do You Feel Prolific? Well, Do Ya?

Prolific without Pain: Chillax Into Your Best Writing Ever Joyful writing doesn’t come from sitting erect at a computer for hours or in a...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 3, 2018
1 min

To Serve Her Man

A simple woman. A simple plan: Set a trap. Catch a man. Catch a man reel him in. Scrape his gills, crack his fin. Chop his head off rut...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 26, 2018
1 min

Corporate Fantasy

To This Day I Remember Wanting to Strangle M. Strickland Hands around throat, breath on the choke. My bulbous eyes took his butt by...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 19, 2018
3 min

New York City Girl

You grew up riding the subway/running with people/ up in Harlem, down on Broadway/ You’re no tramp but you’re no lady/ talkin’ that...

Bust Out of Your Comfort Zone with The Netflix Game

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 13, 2018
2 min

Bust Out of Your Comfort Zone with The Netflix Game

Toy The Netflix Game Snapshot The Netflix Game nudges you to step outside your genre box. It fertilizes your imagination, which is life’s...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 25, 2018
4 min

The Darker Side of Fiction

Historically, I’ve never been much for romance novels in part because they seemed too saccharine and Pollyanna. Unrealistic. That was the...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 20, 2018
3 min

Take Advantage of a Good Brain Wash

At 10 pm I awoke from a 4-hour nap. Could’ve tried to sleep for the night, then thought, why waste a good brain wash? We all know how...

Need to Change Your Life? Eat with Chopsticks

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 11, 2018
2 min

Need to Change Your Life? Eat with Chopsticks

According to Chinese Astrology, 2018 Year of the Dog is kind of bad luck. The good news: circumstances are what you make of them. Get...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 6, 2018
2 min

The Energy of Completion

Writing books takes time. It needn’t take years but it will take months. You are making progress but it will appear subtle. Until you...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 28, 2018
3 min

Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously

Try something you’ve resisted because you didn’t want to “make a fool” of yourself. Yeah, that thing. The local comedy club in my town...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 21, 2018
4 min

The Box, Wild Things and Formula 5

◊ ◊ ◊ Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box. Twyla Tharp ◊ ◊ ◊ The Box In her book, The Creative Habit: Learn...