WIP Blog

  • Why a Book on Empathy?

    Why a Book on Empathy?

    I recently authored a book, How Empathy Changes Everything. So, you might ask, why did you write a book on empathy? The short answer is that I was asked to do so, but that really doesn’t explain it. I love to write. I write a weekly column, and I do it because I like doing… Read more

  • Neuroplasticity for Emotional Well-Being

    Neuroplasticity for Emotional Well-Being

    One of the most important recovery objectives, as promoted in A Survivor’s Common Sense Approach to Recovery from Social Anxiety, is the client’s understanding and use of self-directed neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity restructures our neural network through rapid, deliberate positive stimulation to offset the abundance of negative information in our brain’s metabolism. Read more

  • Go Viral Challenge

    Go Viral Challenge

    By Rebecca Minelga Earlier this year, Wild Ink Publishing sponsored a Go Viral Challenge, a series of blog-post-like suggestions for increasing social media engagement over the course of two months. With twenty-five separate topics and tips, this was a great opportunity to reimagine what social media could look like when optimized both for audience and… Read more

  • Getting to Know Eva Leppard

    Getting to Know Eva Leppard

    By Bruce Buchanan Eva Leppard comes to Wild Ink from the Australian state of Tasmania—“About as close to Antarctica as you can get without having to build an igloo,” she likes to say. She brings with her a creativity honed by Douglas Adams and BBC television, a willingness to look at age-old questions in new… Read more

  • UP A TREE IN THE ZONE WITH YOUR CHARACTER

    UP A TREE IN THE ZONE WITH YOUR CHARACTER

    How important is the relationship between a writer and their character? What is the Zone? If you’re a writer, have you been there? If you’re a reader, have you? They are first-cousin related. Let’s go! Read more

  • An Interview with Christopher DeWitt

    An Interview with Christopher DeWitt

    I’ve been a fan of Louis L’Amour paperback westerns since my dad introduced them to me when I was a kid. There was a rather throw-away line in one of them referencing this character John Murrell and how he wanted to set up his own empire within the American south. The idea intrigued me right… Read more