Professionals, hacks and amateurs – @thisisseth
The amateur contributes with unfiltered joy… The professional shows up even when she doesn’t feel like it… A hack is a professional who doesn’t care. Another insightful post from Seth Godin: Serviceable is for hacks. Memorable and remarkable belong to professionals and hard-working amateurs. Read Seth’s full post, here. Photo by Evan Dvorkin on Unsplash
The Inciting Incident in nonfiction
The Inciting Incident, or Call to Action, is central to fiction and storytelling, but does it have a place in nonfiction? Especially in straightforward commercial writing? Of course it does. Everything is storytelling. Here’s Steven Pressfield (The War of Art) on the topic. Photo by Marc Kleen on Unsplash
Sacrificial sentences with @execupundit
The story of a recent document: First draft: 20 paragraphs Second draft: 17 paragraphs… Read the full cull, here. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash