The Story Learning Gap for Authors & Business Artists
There’s no reliable place where entrepreneurs and business artists can gather to learn how to bring their trade nonfiction book’s story from the stage to the page.
No easy promises to write a brave new story
Easy promises to write a book actually can destroy your self-confidence.
Be Brave – A Poem-Film for Authors & Business Artists
You may have a Story burning inside you. It’s a Story about a new way of living. A Story about a girl who gets whisked into another world. A Story about a new way of leading or of investing in what matters. A Story about a young man who loses everything but his hope. A Story that only your business, your brand, your imagination, your life unfolds.
It’s a Story that needs to rise above the World of Buzz and a Story that someone out here needs to hear.
Books That Matter to Die Empty Author Todd Henry
Twenty years ago, conversations around creativity revolved around creative thinking. Lateral thinking. Metaphorical thinking. Design thinking. Those thinking models remain useful, but what we talk about when we talk about creativity today exceeds creative thinking. We talk about living creatively…
the old story of being stuck
The thing is, we don’t get stuck at the beginning of writing a book. We don’t get stuck in the middle of writing a book. We don’t get stuck in publishing a book.
We get stuck in the story of being stuck itself.
Warning: You Cannot Plug in Your Potential
Every writer has dormant potential to be realized. Potential is not static, and pre-programmed It’s not an, “Either you have writing potential or you don’t” proposition.
Your potential is like dynamic water.
When harnessed, your potential rises and rushes forward in full power.
And it serves entities far greater than your little self.
You have a book running through you. If you can find the methods, habits, and support to harness it, you can step out of the Amateur Bubble and step into the Apprentice-Artist Arena and ultimately flourish in the Artist-Maestro Stadium.
Anyone can do this.
Myths About Writing Talent vs. The Writer’s Inner Game
Myth #1: Successful, gratified writers mostly have talent. Myth #2: Marketing & platform-building are the most important qualities for any writer to have a long-term career these days. A few years ago, a question troubled me. Among the many creatives…
Books That Matter to Pam Slim
Ever yearn to break out of your work cell? I have the book for you, Escape from Cubicle Nation. Once you break out of that cell, do you yearn to find the “thread that ties your story together”? I also…
Does Your Manifesto have integrity?
Don’t Just Ship It In the past 8 or so years, corporate manifestos, entrepreneur manifestos, and creative entrepreneur manifestos have popped up in many places. Some of them seem true. Many feel derivative. Manifestos are provocative mission statements (1). Numerous Internet…
Books That Matter to Martha Frankel
A writer can dream, can’t she? Martha Frankel dreams big and then lives it. In her own words: “Here’s how lucky I am: I got addicted to internet poker, lost a fortune, but then sold a book about it. And my family…
