In any corporate meeting, there’s (at least) one person who likes to write. That person may be you. Everyone else sees writing things up as a chore. You don’t. It hardly seems like work to you. Maybe you don’t realize it, but your writing ability creates soft and pervasive influence — if you volunteer to…
This connection I have with the object of my desire is so amazing. Every day it’s something new. Maybe you feel the same way. Sometimes it feels like you’re just out of sync. Like you have nothing in common. But you learn from what isn’t working, and change your approach. If you try enough new…
Nonfiction books are about ideas. If you’re considering writing a book, you must make sure your idea has four key qualities: it must be simple, big, new, and right. Let’s look at a popular recent book, Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear, and show how it satisfies all four qualities. Book ideas…
I’m assembling a crack team of regular readers and prospective authors who’d like to participate in the launch of my book Build a Better Business Book over the next two months. What you get: insider perspectives on what’s happening, early access to content, and camaraderie with fellow authors on the same quest, and, within reason,…
We’ve all experienced it. Companies begging for 9’s and 10’s on the Net Promoter Score survey, and then punishing employees who don’t get perfect scores when it’s the company that’s at fault. I don’t just sit and take stuff like this. So today, I recommend a way to boost the employees and hold the company…
Over the next six weeks, I’ll be sharing data from the 2019-2022 survey I did of 242 nonfiction authors, 172 of which had completed publishing a book. I’ll share information about the struggles they had, the challenges they found most difficult, and the tools they used. But today I’m going to start at the very…
I’m about one month from the publication date for my new book Build a Better Business Book, and I’ve built an ad-hoc collaboration environment for the launch promotion. I’ll describe what I’ve built. I’m hoping it may be a model for some of your own book promotion efforts. Promotion strategy for my book launch My…
You say you’re a writer? Good for you. But if you really want to be valued (and paid more), you need to constantly increase your versatility. You need to be a full-stack writer. Full-stack developers are valuable A full-stack application developer is one who is adept at all elements of creating software, including both front-end…
I am just so sad to learn that Heather Armstrong, who wrote in the blog persona of Dooce, is no longer with us, having apparently taken her own life. She was only 47, and had so much to give, and so much to say. Dooce turned blogging about the pain of everyday life into an…