Stuck on a paragraph? Bored with your sentence? Not sure if the piece is going in the right direction? Try doing something totally different with the subject. Take a shot at writing about it in a completely different voice. Use the same information but take a whole new tactic. How would you write it for a five year old? What if you were for your best friend? How...
Read MoreI think my house is the site of a truly bizarre and under reported but not uncommon weather phenomenon. I’m quite sure a tornado hit my daughters’ room over the weekend. On Friday, it everything was on the shelves and in the drawers and it could safely be described as orderly. Then sometime over the weekend this thing happened and nothing is where it should be. I...
Read MoreYou want to be a writer? Then write. It’s that simple. Hah! No it’s not. A) Writing a lot doesn’t necessarily make you any good and B) Finding the time to write when you’ve already got a full life can be next to impossible. So does that mean it’s hopeless? Absolutely not. It’s just not quite as simple as we’d like it to be....
Read MoreDo you want to be one of the cool kids? Do you want people to read what you write or buy what you have to sell? Yes? Then you need an audience. And how do you get his audience? These days its a no brainer to say the quickest most effective way is on line. But what does that really entail? The most obvious answer is Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and blogs. But how...
Read MoreJust six months ago, CurtisCompany founder Eric Curtis decided he wanted to write a book to support his growing business consulting practice. You can now buy Collecting Dust (8 Reasons Nonprofit Strategic Plans Fail) on Amazon. It would have been easier to put it off. Eric already has a pretty full schedule running his business and keeping up with a young family....
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