Uncategorized Humble Beginnings Our exploration of the inner workings of Cumulative Advantage starts in 1968 with a Columbia University professor named Meyer Robert Schkolnick Meyer was born into a poor family of Russian…
Writing tips Memoir’s Small Frame Memoir revolves in an orbit of its own choosing, and therefore its pieces are often unified by a theme or period of time. The material is always the author’s life,…
Writing tips Understand the Difference between Personal and Public Writing I’ve lost track of all the manuscripts that have come to my editorial desk from people who survived tragedy, who processed the experience through writing, and who then came…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Both environments are dense, liquid networks A metropolis shares one key characteristic with the Web: both environments are dense, liquid networks where information easily flows along multiple unpredictable paths. Those interconnections nurture great ideas, because most…
Uncategorized Has the pandemic prepared us for pilgrimages? by Wes Granberg-Michaelson https://www.christiancentury.org/article/reflection/has-pandemic-prepared-us-pilgrimages
Writing tips The Dramatic Opening If you’ve got a dramatic story to tell, don’t shy away from it. The French had collapsed. The Dutch had been overwhelmed. The Belgians had surrendered. The British army, trapped,…
Publishing tips How a Publisher Thinks / Vinita Wright – Part 1 ... a series of excerpts from Vinita's Writing for Your Life webinar presentation Who is looking for this book, and why? If you cannot answer this question specifically, the…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips The Principle of Cumulative Advantage The Principle of Cumulative Advantage states that once a person gains a small advantage over others in their field, that advantage will compound over time into increasingly larger advantages. But…
Uncategorized The grand questions If you are able to reside within your questions, if you allow memories to speak their mysteries, then the Great Mystery breathes life into your story. Only then will it…
Writing tips The First Five Things Every Spirituality Writer Needs to Know Having read many proposals and edited scores of manuscripts written on spirituality, I can with confidence offer five statements that are nearly always true when it comes to composing…
Uncategorized At the conference table The most striking discovery in Dunbar’s study turned out to be the physical location where most of the important breakthroughs occurred. With a science like molecular biology, we inevitably have…
Writing tips The Humorous Opening It’s hard to miss when you start with something funny. I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. Bill Byson, The Lost Continent Bryson begins his travelogue through small-town America…
Publishing tips Why You Can’t Manufacture a Best Seller by Alexander Field https://www.thebinderyagency.com/blog/2020/8/3/why-you-cant-manufacture-a-bestseller
