writing

I had a revelation while watching the Kennedy Center Honors during the Christmas season. One thing that makes the Kennedy Honors unique is that celebrity friends of the honorees deliver the speeches—not the honorees themselves. I realized why we love celebrities so much. We can count on them to be…

It is important to understand that at some point you must finish your manuscript. Unfortunately, thoughts are not that finite. You will continue to have thoughts to express about your subject matter, even after you are done writing about it. Yet, those thoughts are for another piece. More insidious than…

You have now fully developed your writing with the help of the feedback you’ve received from the demonstration draft. In this draft, you will first complete a thorough self-edit of your material to take your work as far down the road as you can. At the end of that process…

The demonstration draft, along with the upcoming decisive draft, are the most unfamiliar of the five essential drafts to the new writer. Think of the demonstration draft as a test drive of a new vehicle or the delivery of a prototype from a manufacturer. As a writer, you will be…

Once you have a discovery draft, you now have content with which to work— that is, you have words on the page. It is important to understand that during the discovery draft process you were getting your ideas down on paper. You were following the trail down which the writing…

Here’s a question from the ages: Are leaders born or made? My answer is both. Leaders are born with an innate ability to recognize and respond to the situation that requires their leadership. Leaders know what to do when it has to be done. Destiny Writers share a similar internal…