Uncategorized The To & Fro by Kaitlin Curtice https://kaitlincurtice.substack.com/p/the-to-and-fro?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Writing tips Opening Salvo In the musical 1776 there’s a classic scene in which Thomas Jefferson starts his solitary work of drafting the Declaration of Independence. Quill in hand, he scribbles down a line,…
Marketing tips Finding the Seam Today businesses and entrepreneurs need an active framework for setting strategic direction more like American football. These teams fixate on exploiting any space on the field that is underdefended, even…
Writing tips Precision of expression Precision of expression is neither taught nor appreciated in a culture that has prostituted language in the service of propaganda. To the degree that we consent to cheap hyperbole, flip…
Publishing tips What Is The Right Word Count for Your Book? Here is my quick-reference guide to common word count ranges so you can know what to aim for depending on the genre you are writing in. Ebook-only Promo I may…
Writing tips The Anti-Opening Opening Going against expectations to capture attention is a theme found in many of the options already mentioned. We can also go even further by starting with something that isn’t an…
Uncategorized There’s no such thing as a set-it-and-forget-it strategy Harvard Professor Michael Porter is the author of 20 best-selling books including Competitive Advantage, one of the most important and revered business books of all time. A six-time winner of…
Writing tips Felicity Let us pause here and reflect on one example of this kind of casualty. Felicity is a good case in point - a loss to the language of emotional life…
Writing tips Write It. Forget It. Rewrite It. A side note: it’s been said and is good advice to write the book (article, poem, song etc), leave it alone for a few days, then go back and rewrite…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips Why Authors Didn’t Use to Need Platforms by David Morris, Lake Drive Books https://lakedrivebooks.com/2022/02/10/why-authors-didnt-use-to-need-platforms/
Marketing tips “Fear not.” We the readers are astonished by these words no less than the boy Fred Buechner was astonished by the revelation of his brother’s feelings. How so like Tony Abbott’s taking…
