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As seen in: The Creative Shift by Dan Blank, Apple Podcasts, Is My Kid the Asshole?, Substack, Audible Blog, Intimations: A Writer's Discourse, There's Always A Story, The Yorkshire Post, National Endowment for the Arts, SussexWorld, Lancashire Evening Post and
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Powerful Writing is The Perfect Way To Facilitate Change

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By Karen Banes, Dan Blank
| Substack
If you’ve ever tried to change someone’s mind or influence their way of thinking in the heat of a debate, in real life or online, you may doubt that words are enough to facilitate change. People don’t like changing their minds, even if you provide compelling evidence that what they believe isn’t 100% accurate. Presenting new ideas is hard. Often when you use words to argue back and forth, people tend to dig in and become even more entrenched in their beliefs. Things can get nasty, and personal.
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3 joyful beginner pursuits

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By Christine Koh, Dan Blank, Asha Dornfest
| There's Always A Story
Thank you for being here! If you are a free subscriber and enjoy this newsletter, I would be grateful if you would consider a paid subscription to support my creative work. Back in February, I shared a post on embracing beginner-hood, inspired by a conversation I had with the wonderful . In that post I shared a few things I was considering trying: palette knife cake decorating, learning about gardening and medicinal herbs, and writing a novel.
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Sharing stories, sharing yourself

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By Grant Faulkner, Dan Blank, Chris Norris Verified
| Intimations: A Writer's Discourse
We’re living in an age of sharing—or perhaps of oversharing. We’re not just sharing our stories, we’re also often promoting ourselves, building a personal brand, or creating an “author platform” for our work and our careers. To be a writer is to ask if or how or how much to share. And those can be burdensome questions, especially for those of us who just want to write our stories and be left alone. For many years, I didn’t show anyone my stories.
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