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Fun Fridays – March 21, 2025
I’d prefer not to have a debt with a plumber. No doubt. I paid the bill! I have the receipt! There is nothing subtle about it.
Enjoy today’s fun video about the spelling origins of certain English words. Undoubtedly, you will enjoy it!
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Think Like a Marketer
When we submit a book to a major publishing house, we forget how much money we are asking them to invest in us. Consider the publisher’s commitment to pay top editors for several rounds of edits, artists for the cover design, and the sales team for marketing. I’m leaving out key people, but you get the idea. Emphasizing your marketing knowledge and ability helps a proposal shine. When writing your proposal, pretend you are a marketing person attending a meeting to discuss projects the editors agree should be published. Congratulations! Your writing has been proven, and you have a team …
The Power of a Single Word
According to various sources, there are about one million words in the English language. Approximately 750,000 of them are technical or scientific. That leaves us with 250,000 words with which to communicate. I doubt any of us know all of them or use them. According to the TestYourVocab.com website, the average person knows about 20,000 words and uses only half of those in everyday speech. Go to that site and add your data to the two million people who have already taken their tests. Interestingly, in his works, Shakespeare used about 29,000 different words, 12,000 of them only once. The …
Fun Fridays – March 14, 2025
Back in the day, in Melbourne, Australia, was a bookseller named E.W. Cole. Today’s video is a glimpse into that wonderful bookshop. I want that second floor full of bookshelves to be in my office! ShareTweet
What Are You Saying?
Before telling someone, “You should write a book,” be sure you know what you are encouraging them to do. If you are the one told to write, I am sure you quickly discovered that it wasn’t as easy as you were led to believe. And you either just put the suggestion on the back burner or took a lot of time to learn about how things work and then proceeded with your eyes wide open. If you are the one going around encouraging others to write a book, be sure the advice comes from an informed perspective unless, of course, …