Writing tips The Long, Poetic Opening The rule: start with something short and punchy. So what’s any self-respecting author going to do to surprise readers? Break the rules, of course. It was the best of times,…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Cultivating serendipity While the creative walk can produce new serendipitous combinations of existing ideas in our heads, we can also cultivate serendipity in the way that we absorb new ideas from the…
Writing tips Two disciplines make for a whole life. If you want to write about spirituality, then prepare always to practice double disciplines. One discipline is the craft of writing; the other discipline is the intentional practice of spirituality.…
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…
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…
