title: Create Your Writer's Life: A Guide to Writing With Joy and Ease
author:  Cynthia Morris 
description: Hooked on writing, Cynthia Morris, CPCC, writes articles, blog entries, marketing copy and has completed a historical novel. Through her company, Original Impulse, Cynthia coaches individuals and groups in the U.S and abroad, leads creativity retreats in France, and speaks to groups on creativity in life and business.
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  > > IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM SHARP AND MARGE TOPOREK
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  Here’s one of the best—and most humbling—things about being a writer: you see
  firsthand all the work other people do to bring your book to life, and you
  know it would have never made it without them. These people I can’t thank
  enough:
  
  My agent, Janet Reid, for motivating me with the perfect combination of
  encouragement, swearing, and various threats of bodily harm—and for being the
  funnest person to hang out with at any writing conference. My editor, Keith
  Kahla, who saw this book through several revisio