Writing tips All art is cosmos in chaos Leonard Bernstein tells me more than the dictionary when he says that for him music is cosmos in chaos. That has the ring of truth in my ears and sparks…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips What should you look for in a mentor? What should you look for in a mentor, a person to accompany you on your creative journey? Here are some ideas, but this is certainly not an exhaustive list. Someone…
Writing tips Who will teach me to write? Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know. The page, the page, the eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time’s scrawl as…
Marketing tips, Writing tips In every line We tell our clients the same thing my filmmaker friends told me when I was writing screenplays: anything that doesn’t serve the plot has to go. Just because a tagline…
Writing tips Inseparable All right. So it’s an impossible task. But thinking about it may open new questions , new insights. And as I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings…
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…
Writing tips How Do You Find a Community for Creativity? Where do you find people who are good for you, who enhance your growth as an artist and who increase your confidence to keep up the work? For some people,…
Writing tips The work is not the vision Here is a fairly sober version of what happens in the small room between the writer and the work itself. It is similar to what happens between a painter and…
Marketing tips, Writing tips The Three Crucial Questions So how do we make the story our company is telling clear? Remember, the greatest enemy our business faces is the same enemy that good stories face: noise. At no…
Writing tips Reassert your mastery I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for…
