Category Archives: writing

Three Go-To Writing Sites For You

Posted on May 19, 2015 by ClaraBowmanJahn

Hi Friends! I realize I feel best when helping others achieve their dreams. So I want to tell you of John Yeoman’s free service for four weeks. You get four weeks of free feedback to making stories better before committing to … Continue reading →

Posted in Clara Bowman-Jahn, Clarike Bowman-Jahn, marketing, personal growth, social networking, writing | Tagged Annie's Special Day, Bookbaby, C.Hope Clark, Edmund Pickle Chin, Funds for writers, Good sites, John Yoeman, Pass it on, picture books, Self publishing, Writing | 9 Comments

After Surgery #amreading

Posted on May 12, 2015 by ClaraBowmanJahn

Hi Readers! I had surgery on Tuesday and have felt under the weather all week not doing anything but reading. Yesterday I posted about it on Facebook and so many of you told me to relax and get well. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Clara Bowman-Jahn, Clarike Bowman-Jahn, life story, personal growth, writing | Tagged picture books, reading, reading or writing?, skin surgery, Surgery | 25 Comments

You Reap What You Sow or How Writing Has Influenced Me Postively

Posted on April 28, 2015 by ClaraBowmanJahn

Hi Readers! “I am participating in the Writing Contest: How Writing Has Positively Influenced My Life. Hosted by Positive Writer.” You REAP What you SOW This may sound extreme. Writing was my footprints in the sand even when I was … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, Clara Bowman-Jahn, Clarike Bowman-Jahn, life story, memoir, personal growth, social networking, writing | Tagged Annie's Special Day, Bryan Hutchinson, Charms anthology, Edmund Pickle Chin, Journaling, picture books, Positive writing, private writing, Public writing, The 'I' Word | 8 Comments

My Gifts From My CoAuthor Susan April Elwood

Posted on April 14, 2015 by ClaraBowmanJahn

Last Christmas Susan April Elwood my coauthor in Edmund Pickle Chin, A Donkey Rescue Story gave me two gifts. They were memorable in that one was a ‘Christmas Pickle” and one was a pewter donkey, both were ornaments meant for … Continue reading →

Posted in Clara Bowman-Jahn, Clarike Bowman-Jahn, life story, marketing, social networking, writing | Tagged Christmas Pickle, Coauthor, Edmund Pickle Chin, my second picture book, Pewter donkey, Susan April Elwood | 7 Comments

Abandonment Issues

Posted on March 24, 2015 by ClaraBowmanJahn

Hi Friends! I just read the essay “Abandonment Issues” In the New York Times Book Review by Mark O’Connell, Slates Books columnist. This prompted me to think of the projects I have abandoned. Not my writer projects per say because … Continue reading →

Posted in Clara Bowman-Jahn, Clarike Bowman-Jahn, life story, marketing, memoir, personal growth, writing | Tagged Annie's Special Day, crafting, Edmund Pickle Chin, Knitting, Memoir, picture books, Spiraling my Battle With Bipolar, Writing | 21 Comments

Marketing My Butt OFF!

Posted on March 17, 2015 by ClaraBowmanJahn

Hi Friends, Everything I’ve been reading tells me I should be including bolded headlines in my blog post as well as SEO. Today I got as far as headlines and I’ll save the SEO for another time. Tell me how … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, Clara Bowman-Jahn, Clarike Bowman-Jahn, life story, marketing, Perfect Picture Book Friday, writing | Tagged Annie's Special Day, Book stores, Books And Other Found Things, Edmund Pickle Chinn, Marketing, Memoir, Second Chapter Books | 11 Comments

FEAR of writing & Interview Winners

Posted on February 24, 2015 by ClaraBowmanJahn

Hi Friends! Let’s start this winter post with some spring flowers! Daffodils and crocuses! Perfect! Now maybe we can be serious. Dorit Sasson says in “5 strategies for revising your … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, Clara Bowman-Jahn, Clarike Bowman-Jahn, life story, memoir, personal growth, writing | Tagged Annette Dasofy, interview, Memoir, Snowflake Ball, web site, winners | 15 Comments

CLarbojahn Presents with give away! / Author Annette Dasofy Part One

Posted on February 10, 2015 by ClaraBowmanJahn

Hi Friends! Today welcome Annette Dasofy, the author of four amazing crime mystery novels and fellow colleague from one of my writer groups called Penn Writers. I won her book, Circle of Influence, in a giveaway on Goodreads, the famous … Continue reading →

Posted in Clara Bowman-Jahn, Clarike Bowman-Jahn, Course or Book Review, interview, writing | Tagged Annette Dasofy, author interview, Bridges Burned, Circle of Influence, Crime author, interview, Lost Legacy, myster/thriller | 12 Comments

Memoir Catch Up or How’s it Going?

Posted on January 13, 2015 by ClaraBowmanJahn

Memoir Catch Up or How’s it Going? Dear Friends, This is the time for talking about my memoir. Once a month I will catch you up on how it is going. I will try and do that the first Tuesday … Continue reading →

Posted in Clara Bowman-Jahn, Clarike Bowman-Jahn, life story, memoir, personal growth, writing | Tagged Black Christmas, Memoir, Plato, sorrow, Spiraling my Battle With Bipolar, Writing | 12 Comments

Memoir Writing is Hard!!

Posted on November 4, 2014 by ClaraBowmanJahn

Hi Friends, One day I came across Marcie Atkins site for writers and I was intrigued. Until I came across her revision post. Then it got me thinking and I wrote the following in one swoop. Here is Marcie Atkins … Continue reading →