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Bios
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Joe Bunting is a Wall Street Journal bestselling ghostwriter and the founder of The Write Practice.
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Joe Bunting is a Wall Street Journal bestselling ghostwriter and the founder of The Write Practice, one of the largest writing communities online. He has written more than twenty books, most of them with other authors, working with Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, and independent presses. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Talia and their three children.
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Joe Bunting is a Wall Street Journal bestselling ghostwriter and the founder of The Write Practice, one of the largest writing communities online, which has reached about 30 million readers since 2011.
He has written more than twenty books, most of them with other authors. His clients include Navy SEALs, Harvard-trained physicians, top financial advisors, founders, first responders, and nonprofit leaders. Books he has written or coached have reached the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon bestseller lists, published by Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, independent presses, and through self-publishing.
For 15 years he has taught writers to practice deliberately. His own books include Crowdsourcing Paris, a travel memoir, and The Write Structure, an Amazon bestselling guide to story structure. He is currently writing The Pleasure of Practice.
Joe lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Talia and their three children.
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Some facts
- Based in
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Bestseller lists
- Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Amazon
- Enquiries
- joe@joebunting.com
What I talk about
Practice Makes… What?
You have used your non-dominant hand every day of your life. But why is it so hard to write your name with it? Because just doing something and practicing it deliberately are entirely different things. In this talk about deliberate practice, I trace what separates activity from practice, from the shape of the mastery curve to what neuroscientists have found practice does to the physical structure of the brain. Audiences are challenged to name the place they feel clumsiest, decide how good they actually want to be at a chosen skill, and begin the process of transformation.
What Does It Take to Come Up With a Great Idea?
Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize winning All the Light We Cannot See took ten years to write, from initial idea to publication. But for Doerr it was never one idea, it was a combination of three. In this talk about the creative process, I show how each of Doerr’s three main characters arrived separately: one on a commuter train, one in a news story out of Iraq, and one on a foggy night walk along the ramparts of Saint-Malo. Creatives are challenged to stay awake to the moments when ideas arrive, be patient with the ones that are not finished yet, and get the perspective to finally discover the connections in their own creative work.
What Makes a Book Idea Worth Writing?
Books change lives. There are books that you’ve read that changed your life. But how do you actually take an idea and turn it into a real, actual book? In this practical talk for creatives, founders, speakers, and anyone with a book idea, I talk about how to take an idea and build a process that will lead to a finished book, drawing from my own experience as a ghostwriter who’s guided people to 6-figure book deals with major imprints, and busting myths about writing and publishing along the way.
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