Writing tips The Understated Opening Sometimes when emotions are hot and debates are combative, trying to yell even louder won’t work. Doing the opposite can make people listen. Sometimes, if you whisper, people will strain…
Writing tips Read, Learn, Write, Revise: 10 Assignments for the First-Time or Aspiring Author by Jevon Bolden https://www.jevonbolden.com/blog/2021/7/7/read-learn-write-revise-10-assignments-for-the-first-time-or-aspiring-author
Marketing tips, Writing tips Commonplacing Scholars, amateur scientists, aspiring men of letters - just about anyone with intellectual ambition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was likely to keep a commonplace book. The great minds…
Writing tips What Authenticity Is and Why It Matters People who work in communications, such as television or book publishing, now say that authenticity is the new authority or authenticity is the new cool. It’s a shame that the…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Will I Let My Age Limit My Stage? by Patricia Raybon https://www.incourage.me/2021/08/will-i-let-age-limit-my-stage.html
Marketing tips, Writing tips It makes a difference where and when we grew up Malcolm Gladwell brings the Matthew Effect to popular attention in his book Outliers, which I warmly recommend. Gladwell blows apart the fanciful notion of rags-to-riches success. “People don’t rise from…
Uncategorized The Intriguing Opening We’ve become all too used to clickbait headlines we see on the web (“10 Surefire Ways to Lose Weight: You Won’t Believe #7”). Creating intrigue is a valid approach, but…
Marketing tips, Writing tips Breakthroughs usually take time to develop The snap judgments of intuition - as powerful as they can be - are rarities in the history of world-changing ideas. Most hunches that turn into important innovations unfold over…
Writing tips How to Make Your Story a Story for Others Around my workplace, we often refer to our mission as “people for others.” St. Ignatius and his companions formed the Society of Jesus for the purpose of “helping souls.” Helping…
Marketing tips What is Cumulative Advantage? Since Merton’s original paper debuted more than 50 years ago, the Matthew Effect is also more commonly referred to as Cumulative Advantage. The most accepted description of this idea is…
Writing tips Creative Writing as a Spiritual Practice by Debbie Bronkema I say these words, and whatever room I’m in, I see a light go on in somebody’s eyes. There are stories in us that are too… 1 Comment
