Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World Word by Word
This video has been around for nearly fifteen years. Very funny back then. Is it still funny now?
Unfortunately, many online stores have yet to solve their checkout experience.
What is your most aggravating online checkout experience? Please don’t reveal the store. That is something for their customer service site.
Many writers assume persuasion begins the moment their argument appears on the page. However, it begins much earlier, in how the writer understands the truth they are trying to convey. When writing is treated as a way of proving a point, the tone tends to harden and the sentences become more authoritative, which can create a subtle resistance in the reader. However, when writing is treated as a …
Collective Nouns Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to add three things to this list I found on the Internet in the comments below. A _______of Editors A________of Writers A________of Agents. Put your answers in the comments and have fun! Here are 50 examples: 1. Business of Ferrets 2. Labor of Moles 3. Mustering of Storks 4. Shrewdness of Apes 5. Gam of Whales 6. Smack of Jellyfish …
Affliction For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced. … For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But …
Since it is likely a hot summer day for those of you north of the equator, I thought today’s video might cool you off. A tutorial on how people in Northern Scandinavia do their laundry. Here in Phoenix, we just leave the clothes on the sidewalk where they burst into flames. Much easier. [If you cannot see the video in your newsletter, please click through to the site to view it.]
I think it is a mistake to reveal how much money you make as an author. The details of your royalty advance on your latest deal should not be shared with other authors. It is similar to finding out the salary of the co-worker in the office cubicle next to yours. When I was a retail store manager, we had major problems when salaries were discovered. I had to physically stop a near fistfight between …
Sometimes we must simply acknowledge the skill of others who can do what we cannot. The first 45 seconds of today’s video is a metaphor for what your manuscript will look like after a great editor slices and dices it into something unique and exciting. Of course, it could be just a potato being chopped up. But I prefer the word picture. Enjoy the skill of this chef! [If you cannot see the …
[Read the following, out loud, really fast. Should help you wake up!] by Anonymous When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write, if the copy is right. If however, your copy falls over, you must right your copy. If you write religious services you write rite, and have the right to copyright the rite you write. Very conservative people write right copy, and have the right …
Can’t go too long without showing you more barbershop quartet brilliance. Enjoy this one about nursery rhymes from The Newfangled Four! (If you cannot see the video in your email newsletter feed, click through to our website where you can enjoy it.)
