Many people know that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. You may not realize that other members of Congress edited it. Imagine sending your carefully crafted draft to the United States Congress for revision. When comparing Jefferson’s first draft to the final, it’s clear that many changes led to substantive improvements. That’s what happens when Benjamin […]
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The True Costs of Self-Publishing
Quick quiz: What does it cost to self-publish a book? a) $1000 b) $10,000 c) $100,000 d) None of the above People will claim each of these numbers. (I’ve seen a proposal for north of $100,000.) The answer is D, because the other responses are in the wrong currency. At the very least, they are incomplete. […]
Write for Flow, Not Perfection
Writing Productivity Tip #4: Give Your Inner Editor the Day Off You’re ready to start drafting something – a blog post, report, short story, or chapter of a nonfiction book. Do you write swiftly and efficiently? Or do you spend time struggling over word choice and sentence structure? The best possible case is to achieve a state of […]
