by Issachar Projects | Apr 16, 2018 | Writing Tips
Out of ideas? I have a trick I use often when I find myself staring at a blank page, or when I’m in the middle of a long writing project and run out of ideas. I have never seen it on any list of writing tips or tricks: Question your certainties. This trick can be used...
by Issachar Projects | Apr 13, 2018 | Writing Tips
Sales letters are excellent tools for companies to generate leads. Whether you’re strictly online only or a brick-and-mortar business, both snail mail sales letters and emails can drum up hot leads that you can convert into sales. But — and this is big — only if you...
by Issachar Projects | Apr 9, 2018 | Writing Tips
“Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes?” French literary critic Roland Barthes poses this question in his 1973 The Pleasure of the Text, and I find myself pondering it frequently—not only to understand the nature of desire, but as a fiction...
by Issachar Projects | Mar 30, 2018 | Writing Tips
If you want to write a good sentence, don’t pay any attention to your grammar. I don’t mean “a sentence this like OK is.” I mean don’t automatically think you’ve written a good sentence just because it’s grammatically correct. Lots of bad sentences are grammatically...
by Issachar Projects | Mar 23, 2018 | Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Writing Tips
In a previous post, From Author to Reader: The Line of Book Publishing, we examined the stages of book publishing. The process is a conglomerate of brains and experts who work together to get the manuscript from the author’s desk into the hands of the reader....
by Issachar Projects | Mar 21, 2018 | Writing Tips
I’m sure it’s happened to you. You’re chatting with someone — perhaps on the bus, or at a kitchen party — and you mention you’re working on a book. Before you can even talk about the idea, they’re already responding. “Oh yeah,” they say, “I’ve got a killer idea for a...