How Do You Finally Get Your Book Finished (and Published)?
Atina Diffley, an organic vegetable farmer in her former life, is now an organic consultant, author, and public speaker. Her just released memoir, Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works, is called "a must read love story, a lesson in entrepreneurship, a master class in organic farming, and a legal thriller."
Atina showed up at one of my writing workshops at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis a few years back. She had a book in mind. She was passionate about the topic, and--from her determination to make others passionate about it too--I could tell she would be successful at writing her book. Although she'd written quite a bit, she needed help structuring and developing the material. As an experienced organic farmer, she wanted to share what she knew, but in memoir form. Her life, and her farming, were and are very intertwined.
From that first workshop, Atina got fired up. She liked what she learned about book structuring. And over the next year or so, I saw her again in a workshop, then another. She began bringing along her writing friends to learn about structuring their books.
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