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Reader Challenge: A six-word writing world view. What’s yours read like?

A world view is a conceptual framework that helps tie everything together; it allows you to understand the world and your place in it. Creating a writing world view can help you make decisions that may shape your writing future. It could even help you slay your foes....

Who is the hero in your [writing] tale?

Messaging/Copywriting, Storywork

Force isn’t related to size; it’s what’s inside you that divines your destiny. Will you risk or sacrifice everything to accomplish feats of honour, courage or nobility? That’s a hero. We all love heroes. We all need heroes. They inspire us, support us and...

Who filled my creative well with rocks?

Creativity

Life seems to have got a little out of control. Go-slow lanes have disappeared, there’s no fallow time in the year, fruit and veges are always in season, our homes and lives are never-endingly lit (by the eerie pixel light of small and large screens), our...

When letting go [clients] means more [better things]

Strategy

The one certainty in business today is change. In a landscape that constantly fluxes when it comes to technology, volume and approaches, the majority of business-people would agree on one thing. And that is, that it’s unpredictable. On this thought, of recent...

Are you maker, a user or a destroyer?

Creativity, Storywork

I come from a long line of makers. My Nana knitted like an angel. My Mum is a brilliant crafter – creating magical dolls, clothes and quilts, knitting and sewing her way through her life; a journey that to this day has yet to stop. My Dad was also...

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