Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World Word by Word
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!
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I pondered whether to make today’s post a series, but my nature to be more encouraging than discouraging took over. So, I decided to make this a single “rip off the Band-Aid” message so you can get the bad taste out of your mouth and enjoy tomorrow’s “Fun Friday” post from Steve Laube! Question #1: What if your focus on one particular book idea getting published is the very thing holding you back …
[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.)
Lord, remind me when inspiration fails me and writing is a slog, that even at such times the writing life is a life of privilege and blessing. Remind me when I feel overwhelmed with work of the “dry spells” I’ve endured when paying jobs were few. Remind me when I am tempted to do less than my best to make every word, sentence, paragraph, and page a holy offering to you. Remind me …
In the English language, there is a two-letter word that has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is UP. It is listed in the dictionary as an adverb, preposition, adjective, noun, or verb! (Click here for the Merriam-Webster Dictionary link and keep scrolling down the page.) There are over 30 definitions! I cannot claim total originality for what follows (I think variations …
The World Cup of Soccer is still going on with the teams whittled down to only a few still in the competition. There was a particular match played years ago that was captured on film by those odd men whose group is called Monty Pyton’s Flying Circus. This particular match between Greece and Germany is one that anyone with a modicum of philosophical knowledge will thoroughly enjoy. (The …
Today, we wish a happy 125th birthday to the late British author Barbara Cartland, who died in 2000, just before turning 99. If you have never heard of her, it might be worth a minute or two to familiarize yourself with a very distinctive, flamboyant, prolific, and best-selling author. Photos of her and her home are alone worth a thousand words. She wrote romance novels in the historical and …
Many people have written about book scams, but I was surprised to receive a letter about an old title of mine, More than Friends. At the moment, I have no plans to re-enter the writing world. I love being a literary agent so much that I wasn’t tempted. I’m sharing this because the tactic employed is the same as that in a romance scam. Rather than a love affair promised to a lonely person, this is …
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, …
