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Access to this life-changing event is free right now!

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Join me at this free event. The Super Connector Summit is LIVE Oct. 30!

Today is your last chance to get full access to the Super Connector Summit before it begins – totally free. Register here now: https://dianerobinson–insurgent.thrivecart.com/super-connector-summit-all-access-pass/59d3a31eeefa6/

Here’s what you’ll walk away with when you join us at the Super Connector Summit:

  1. A full understanding of where you network is, and where it needs to be – including the science behind how networks work to help or hurt your career
  2. A plethora of tactics, systems, and proven strategies you can implement today to grow your network and improve your connections
  3. A new plan that will allow you to go further faster by strengthening your relationships and leveraging your network to boost your work.

Remember, this summit is a gathering of thought leaders, world-class experts, and networking super connectors including:

–Adam Grant, the New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take

–Dorie Clark, the personal branding expert behind Reinventing You and Stand Out

–Jordan Harbinger, the host of the top-ranked podcast The Art of Charm

–Jenny Blake, author of Pivot, international speaker and executive coach

The best part?

This free event is designed to fit your busy schedule. These presentations are all online (no travel required) and will be available for 48 hours after they go live (today), so you can access them at your convenience.

Grab your free seat now: https://dianerobinson–insurgent.thrivecart.com/super-connector-summit-all-access-pass/59d3a31eeefa6/

To your success,

Diane

Writing For Children -Finding Your Child Voice

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Writing Tip

When writing children literature, finding your own child voice is the only way to create realistic characters, believable dialogue, and succinct narrative that will grab your reader’s attention and keep them involved in your story.

My writing students often ask me: So how does a writer find their child voice?

My answer to students is this: Before you can find your child voice, you must think like a child. To think like a child, you must play like a child, even if it is only in your mind.

Seems like a relatively simple thing to do, right?  But as adults, we often let go of (or lose completely) our childlike attitudes and behaviors; tuck them away in a memory box.

So, open the box. Remember. Put on a costume and dance around the room, go to a park and cruise down the slide, visit a classroom, read children’s literature, or hang out with some kids and just observe. Soon enough, your own childhood memories will come flooding back about what it was like to be that age–what was important, what wasn’t important, how you acted and how you talked, what the world sounded like, felt like, and tasted like.

Once your own inner child is awakened, you will be able to immerse yourself into your child character’s head with more freedom, and your writing will be filled with pizzazz.

Another exercise I have my students do to get into child-mode thinking is to look at things, people, situations and emotions; write down all the different ways to express it with originality. Then, break the sentences down again and again until the emotions and situations are expressed simply, with the innocence of a child’s heart.

Here are some examples of my child voice that I’ve used in my own stories:

Excited:  He felt as if a herd of jumping bugs were doing cartwheels in his stomach.

Sad: My heart fell sideways and stayed lying down all day.

Descriptive dialogue: “I’m sure grandma can fly. See that flapping skin under her arms? Those are her after-dark wings.”

Descriptive narrative: The wind pricked and jabbed him, becoming so mean with all its yelling and howling that Tom decided the wind wasn’t worth playing with any longer.

So, if find yourself dancing and twirling around the kitchen, doing cartwheels across the yard, or finger painting like a four-year-old, and somebody comes along to tell you that you are acting immature, take it as a compliment and start writing.

 

Diane Mae Robinson is the international multi-award-winning author of the children’s fantasy/adventure series, The Pen Pieyu Adventures.  The author is also an artist, art teacher, editor of children books, and a writing instructor.

Author’s website: www.dragonsbook.com

Amazon author’s page: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B007DKO8SK

 

Do you have the connections you need for a successful career?

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Learn how to grow your network and strengthen your existing connections in this free summit – The Super Connectors Summit.

You’ve heard all the sayings:

-“Your network is your net worth.

-“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”

They’re as cliché as they are true.

But that’s probably not what’s keeping you from growing your network or strengthening your connections. Being convinced they need to grow and maintain a robust network isn’t what stops most people.

It’s how.

How do you find the new connections most beneficial to your career goals?

How do you begin a conversation with new people?

How do you properly introduce yourself to strangers?

How do you maintain a habit of connecting with those in your network?

And…if you’re not the type of person who bounces off the walls with excitement at the thought of going to a networking event:

How do you get the confidence/motivation/skill/extroversion to do so?

That’s where my friend David Burkus comes in.

David is a best-selling author, an award-winning podcaster, and a business school professor. He’s sold tens of thousands of copies of his books, spoken to audiences like Fortune 500 companies and the US Naval Academy, and has a TED talk that’s been viewed more than 1.7 million times.

And he’ll be the first to tell you it was the friends in his network that helped him get there.

For the last 2 years, David’s been studying the science of social networks and became fascinated with what are called “super connectors.”

Super connectors are the glue that hold networks together…literally. They’re the people that always seem to know someone you’re looking for. They’re the ones who are always connecting influential people to each other. And they’re the ones who are always being introduced to new people.

And, super connectors are the ones who seem to be the most successful in their industry.

There’s nothing special about super connectors. They don’t have a certain personality or come from a certain background. The just learned the skills of networking faster and better than most.

But anyone can learn it.

To prove it, David’s gathered more than 60 super connectors and interviewed them to draw out the lessons they’ve learned along the way and the advice they’d share with anyone looking to grow their network.

He’s hosting all these experts in a one-time event called the Super Connector Summit…and it’s completely free.

https://dianerobinson–insurgent.thrivecart.com/super-connector-summit-all-access-pass/59d3a31eeefa6/

In the Super Connector Summit, you’ll learn from amazing thinkers and doers like:

–Adam Grant, the New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take

–Dorie Clark, the personal branding expert behind Reinventing You and Stand Out

–Jordan Harbinger, the host of the top-ranked podcast The Art of Charm

–Jenny Blake, author of Pivot, international speaker and executive coach

–and so many more

The Super Connector Summit kicks off on Monday, October 30th and I wanted to personally invite you to grab a free seat now:

https://dianerobinson–insurgent.thrivecart.com/super-connector-summit-all-access-pass/59d3a31eeefa6/

Not only are you going to learn how to grow your network, you’ll learn how to strengthen your existing connections and deepen your relationship.

That means no matter how big your network is, or how big you want it to be, there’s something you can learn from each expert. And with more than 60 experts participating…that’s a lot of somethings.

Register for free now so you don’t miss this opportunity – https://dianerobinson–insurgent.thrivecart.com/super-connector-summit-all-access-pass/59d3a31eeefa6/

It really is “who you know” and “your network is your net worth”….but all of that is good news because you can control it.

This summit will show you how.

Register now: https://dianerobinson–insurgent.thrivecart.com/super-connector-summit-all-access-pass/59d3a31eeefa6/

See you there,

Diane

PS: Remember, the Super Connector Summit is totally free, but you have to register to reserve your seat: https://dianerobinson–insurgent.thrivecart.com/super-connector-summit-all-access-pass/59d3a31eeefa6/