Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
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Helping to Change the World Word by Word
Buddy Greene proves that with enough practice you can play at Carnegie Hall! Sheer brilliance on an unappreciated instrument. It’s great that Bill Gaither showpieced this virtuoso.
Hope it inspires you!
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by Steve Laube
You just received a 15 page single spaced editorial letter from your publisher. They want you to rewrite most of the book. But you disagree with the letter and are spitting mad. What do you do?
Or your agent took a look at your manuscript and told you to cut it in half to make it sellable. What do you do?
Both examples are true stories and illustrate the universal …
Today’s video is a clever way to illustrate a charitable need. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays Vivaldi’s “Spring” but with one-third of the notes missing, thereby showing that 1/3 of all Cancer Research UK’s funding came from gifts. Very clever. It also illustrates something else. When your manuscript seems to be missing something, this video is what the words …
by Steve Laube
To libel someone is to injure a person’s reputation via the written word (slander is for the spoken word). I wrote recently about Indemnification but only touched on this topic. Let’s try to unpack it a little further today.
First, be aware that the laws that define defamation vary from state to state, however there are some commonly accepted guidelines. Anyone can claim …
Not everything is as it seems. Is there a metaphor in this video for the writing life? Which one is your favorite? Mine is the third one. (If you cannot see the embedded video in your newsletter email, please click the headline and go directly to our site to view it.)
by Steve Laube
Putting together a great book proposal takes a lot of work. I suggest writers look at them as if they were a job application, and they are. You are trying to get someone to pay you to write your book via a stellar "job application" or book proposal.
But every once in a while we get something that is not going to work, for obvious reason. Here are two mistakes:
1. Divine …
Take a familiar song and mess up the words and you get today’s satirical video. Complete silly fun for a Fun Friday! (If you cannot see the embedded video in your newsletter email, please click the headline and go directly to our site to view it.)
Publishing is not without risks. Plagiarism, fraud, and libel by an author are real possibilities. Thus within a book contract is a legal clause called indemnification, inserted to protect the publisher from an author’s antics. The indemnification clause, in essence, says that if someone sues your publisher because of your book, claiming something like libel (defamation) or plagiarism etc., …
Counting to seven has never been harder. Here’s the challenge. This drummer is playing to a beat with seven counts in each measure. Your challenge is to clap correctly on the downbeat of each new measure. Don’t lose concentration, or you’ll lose the game! The musical score is provided on the bottom of the screen. It doesn’t help. Sometimes your creativity taps to the beat …
I’ve been making an annual musical journey during the pre-Easter Lenten season. I wrote about a couple of those before (here and here). I thought it might be fun to reveal this year’s version. Since mid-February, the only music I’ve listened to in the car or while on a plane has been the collected works of Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). While most of us are familiar with his …
