Writing and Creating Books
A Murder of Crows Wordplay
I love this image: Attempted Murder. It’s funny word play! If you know anything about the names for groups of animals, you know that a group of crows is called a murder of crows. And you have to have at least three crows to make a murder. Want to be somebody? Write a book. And then […]
Steve Jobs: On Creativity
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it. They just saw something. — Steve Jobs, co-founder, Apple Computer Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because […]
Austin Kleon: On Creative Work
Ask anyone doing truly creative work, and they’ll tell you the truth: They don’t know where the good stuff comes from. They just show up and do their thing. Every day. — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist Do you know where your creative works comes from? Do you know where the words come from […]
Query Letters That Work: Grab Them with the First Sentence
Guest post by Jeff Rivera Agents are so busy nowadays they won’t even give a query letter an entire paragraph to grab them. If you’ve passed the first test, what I like to call the scan test (meaning it looks professional at first glance), then you’ll be lucky to go on to the next test: […]