Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World Word by Word
The day after Thanksgiving in the U.S. has been tagged as the biggest shopping day of the year. But yesterday was a day to remind ourselves what we should be thankful for.
This brilliant video from a church in Charlotte, NC embodies that reminder. Enjoy!
You may have already seen this because it went viral a couple weeks ago. I figured you wouldn’t mind watching it again.
Recently I spent a few hours visiting a relative in rehab, and the television was tuned to an episode of the television series, My 600-lb Life. This is why I like to control the TV remote at all times. The episode focused on a fairly young mother of two children who weighed nearly six hundred pounds and was hoping to engage a surgeon for weight-reduction surgery. Her first several consultations …
Continuing with my series of “unnecessary” blog posts (last week Unnecessary Words), today we cover unnecessary work, which I define as making something more difficult than it needs to be. So you understand my worldview, I always take the escalator, elevator or moving sidewalk, I know all the shortcuts on my computer keyboard and I love microwaves. Why make something harder than it needs to be? …
Speaking from an agent's perspective...
I have more conversations with clients about their feelings of anxiety, apprehension or insecurity than almost any other topic. Almost every writer I have ever worked with as an editor or an agent severely doubts themselves at some point in the process.
Doubts occur in the midst of creation.
Doubts occur when the disappointing royalty statement …
Dance! So many different styles. For any age. For any culture. Sort of like writing isn’t it? The arts are a wonderful thing to behold. Enjoy! Wait. Is that me at the 1:31 mark? Maybe not…
Is there really a conference season? True, conferences rarely take place during the Christmas season but there seems to be a conference somewhere at any given time. And that means, authors are preparing to go to conferences all year. Here are a few perennial tips I hope you can use. Thinking about going: Do I have the funds? For a national conference you must fly to, I recommend aiming to have at …
Writer’s magazines often feature suggested Christmas and Hannukah gifts for writers: fancy pens, award-winning books, writing aids, and coffee mugs sporting famous writers’ mugs. But those gifts are intended to be received by writers; what about the writer who has trouble finding gifts to give? I’m so glad you asked. The following list is intended to suggest thoughtful and meaningful gifts for …
From my earliest days writing and communicating, I’ve needed to fit whatever I wrote or spoke into space and time required by the medium in which I was using at the moment. In electronic media, a clock runs everything. If you have 90 seconds to fill before the radio newscast, you actually have 89 seconds to make a point. Not 91 or 105 seconds…89 seconds, so the network feeds are picked up without …
Every year Beloit College creates a "Mindset List" which reflects the culture that the incoming Freshman class have grown up experiencing. It helps their faculty know how to relate to these incoming students. Click here for this year's Mindset List.
I download this list every year and read it with increasing wonder at the speed of our cultural changes.
The college graduating class of 2014 …
Today’s video can be seen as a visual metaphor of the writing and publishing experience. Can you tell me what is being represented?
