Writing tips Help from others If you’re trying to write all alone, you’re already in trouble. If you’re trying to make the spiritual journey alone, you’re already in trouble. It doesn’t matter what kind of…
Writing tips A Love Letter to COVID Authors from Kaitlin Curtice https://kaitlincurtice.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-to-covid-authors?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Bumping into something I once had the opportunity to interview the great writer and historian Walter Isaacson. He has written incredible books on intellectual giants - Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin -…
Writing tips Our language practices in this culture are unsustainable So what are the alternatives? Market language and war language are the dominant idioms of the culture and the currency of much public conversation. By way of an answer, let…
Writing tips The Writers Guide to Imposter Syndrome by Hannarich Asiedu What is imposter syndrome, by the way? Impostor syndrome (IS) refers to an internal experience of believing that you are not as competent as others perceive you…
Writing tips Be sure about these nine things Without being very sure of the following nine things, your book project will not go very far. This is my “first thing first” plan to get you started: Why are…
Writing tips At Montreat in 1973 How did Tony Abbott hear about the works of Fred Buechner that gave him such pleasure, such hope? It was by meeting Lou Patrick, Goldie Stribling, and Betty McLaney in…
Marketing tips, Writing tips Seven daily habits to make you a more consistent content creator by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2021/11/29/consistent-content-creator/
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips An Energetic Quest Maybe you’re thinking these random moments are pure luck, a mystical force beyond your control - unless you’re a Jedi master. But there are specific actions you can take to…
Writing tips Dubious but consequential metaphors Consider, too, timeworn expressions still in use that confuse important issues - land of opportunity, for instance, a phrase still invoked to describe a country where at this writing the…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Our fundamental “groupishness” In his significant book “Not in God’s Name”, Jonathan Sacks reverses a popular trope. It is not our religion that makes us violent, he says. Instead, it is our penchant…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips The odds of finding like-minded people are much lower with a smaller pool of individuals Lifestyles or interests that deviate from the mainstream need critical mass to survive; they atrophy in smaller communities not because those communities are more repressive, but rather because the odds…
Marketing tips, Writing tips How to overcome your fear of being honest and open in your content by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2021/12/13/fear-of-being-honest/
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips You have to put yourself in a place to have experiences that give you a chance The idea for my book lit up before me like an airport runway. I knew the marketing world was about to be transformed. We were being handed an entirely new…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Random, unexpected, and serendipitous Margaret Heffernan, a professor at the University of Bath, said an entrepreneurial leader today has to pursue curiosity like an artist: “What does an artist do? They notice, they investigate,…
Writing tips To be good stewards of words To maintain usable and reliable language - to be good stewards of words - we have at least to do these three things: (1) deepen and sharpen our reading skills,…
Writing tips So They Say You Should Write A Book Someone heard your story and said you should write a book. Is this true? Is that why you are here? Believe it or not, this happens to people a lot…
Writing tips Out of the depths In the early days at Trinity, Lou Patrick took opportunities to travel to conferences to learn and study the works of current theologians. It was on one of these sabbaticals…
Marketing tips, Writing tips Consider these facts about Americans who speak English At least 50 percent of the unemployed are functionally illiterate (US Department of Labor Statistics).The average kindergarten student has seen more than 5,000 hours of television, having spent more time…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips 84 percent of all businesses started from a random event Business consultant Martin Lindstrom estimates that 84 percent of all businesses started from a random event. Fortune 500 companies like Starbucks and Home Depot and products such as Velcro, Viagra,…
