Some nonfiction is designed primarily to educate and inform (think textbooks, how-to books, or self-help books), but would argue that even these can benefit from Creative Nonfiction techniques. Why not build a narrative that helps readers best relate to the content and become immersed in it?
Understanding that the hour is very late and that the world is growing darker by the day if not by the hour, there needs to be a fundamental shift in the focus of this group/website, to better serve its visitors. Please see the passages below that have motivated this decision. Ecclesiast...
What aspects of your brand of leadership make up the secret remedy? How can readers exercise your suggestions to improve work? One of the most common mistakes for would-be authors is to repeat in later chapters what they say in earlier ones. It’s also common to make a leap of logic ...
To remedy this, if you’re a leader, think twice before reflexively accepting any meeting invitation as it appears in your inbox. The goal should be to treat leadership capacity as a finite resource—just like your company’s financial capital. What is this meeting for? A meeting’s title...
Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay that begins with the sentence “Nowadays more and more people take delight in offering help t…
He chides his students, warning them not to fall into this trap, out of too much self-assurance: “Is it in this regard that you fall short, then? Have you achieved perfection in the other areas of study? When a bit of money is involved, are you secure against deception? If you see...
Try this exercise: get your business case down to one sentence. If you can’t explain it any more simply than that, your business case might not be as memorable as it needs to be to sway decision-makers. Use analogies to drive the point home. Let’s say you discovered a problem in ...
However, if you’re writing about tools or different ways to do a thing, there’s no limit to the number you can use.Working numbers into your titles is a great place to start in learning what you can do to make a headline more compelling....
myself and for those around me easier. I feel like I don’t know how though – this may sound horrible, but how do you reconcile your attempts to be a better, more understanding, appreciative, receptive, non-judgemental person when there are people around who are so lacking in these ...
“Due to my carelessness, because I have been working in this area for too long, I decided to use my bare hand to snatch the cobra’s tail out.” That impulsive grab turned out to be a major miscalculation. Cobras and their world ...