Category: Community Building

  • Publish or Perish? Really? (part 1 of 3)

    Beloved author, Paulo Coelho has many fine quotes, as the prolific writer he is and I dedicate this series to the themes within this statement: “Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to…

  • Does Your Marketing and Writing Pass The Four-Way Test?

    From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world’s most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The Four-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was…

  • To blog or not to blog IS always the question

    Weekly does my Writer’s Support Group for the Reticent Blogger meet at 1pm on Tuesdays. This gathering has been going on since March of 2010 and weekly many of the same people come to convene and converse about what is in the way of writing right now! Or perhaps what success there is to report.…

  • Writing Community Style: Finding One's Writing Voice

    Recently, this “journal writer” spent four glorious weeks in a class I would take over and over again. Monday mornings my ritual for the last four weeks was an 11am pot of tea with three other students of the craft of writing and one FINE facilitator. We can’t return enough to explore the basics and the…

  • Authentic Writing Could…

    Inspire a Recommendation from a friend… Act like a Muse on another Dreamer… Clarify for New People who you are  and what you do and why… Make a reader smile, ponder, engage, respond, and express gratitude… Support your Credibility Gracefully (or Provocatively)… Further tap into your unknown wisdom and creativity…   …Be exactly what is…

  • The Power of Support: It Works!

    How would you create a network of meaningful support around you and for others? Why do some movements and ideas go viral quickly and grow like mushrooms after the rain? I propose the AUTHENTICITY at the inception and in the core makes it just that much more attractive to people. Authentic Writing Provokes.