Launch of new website about ‘how to write’ …

Over the years and through my experience as a professional business writer, I have often been asked (particularly by small business operators) how to write certain documents — both for business and personal.

So much so, I decided to launch a site which is dedicated to provided practical advice, tips, templates and strategies — the very same that I would impart to my clients. What I hope (in time) is that as I load more and more information up there, that it will be a preliminary point of contact for me to send them to before I speak with them and/or conduct my interview with them.

Anyway, I’m really looking forward to the long silent hours of writing with just the tinkering of the keyboard and the clear sounds of classical music streaming through my headphones. I have this idosyncrasy of when I write, that I need to listen to certain music; as if to take me into another place. Dramatic, I know, but it seems to do the trick and before I know it, I’ve written through most of the night.

Nevertheless, if you have a chance, take a look and let me know what you think: www.this-is-how-you-write-it.com.

My first uploaded topic is essentially about ‘How To Write An Essay’ as I have recently completely successfully my post-grad study and there were a lot of valuable steps and strategies I used in the process, but as I AM a business writer, the majority of my topics will be business related.

So, until my next post.

Stay tuned . . .
Angela.

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The Man Who Forgot How To Read (Howard Engel)

I recently finished reading a wonderful little book written by a well-known crime novelist, Howard Engel. It’s a personal memoir entitled, “The Man Who Forgot How To Read” and it’s his personal journey back from a stroke which left him unable to write.

He describes how, with reading and writing as being not only his art, his craft and his passion, is stripped from him when he wakes up one day from a stroke which leaves him unable to write. Here is a man where writing is literally his life and it is a wonderfully empowering story of how he crawls back and ends up writing another book.

A life spent making mistakes …

I’ve recently been working with an author in a ghostwriting capacity creating a creative non-fiction piece on an aspect of their life.

They had this wonderful saying that has almost become a mantra and validation of how they have chosen to live their life:

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

[George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950]

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