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Sow Ideas Like Sunflowers Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Our first crop of sunflowers was a gift from unseen forcesâa bird, perhaps, or a squirrel? The seedlings poked their heads up in the two raised beds in our gardenâin and amongst the poppies, alongside the cosmos plants we had raised from seeds and planted in the bed.
My husband Steve (the one who does the gardening), contemplated the upstarts.
âIâm going to let these grow and see what they are.â
He had an inkling they were something specialâvolunteers worth giving a chance. I suspected they were broad-leafed weeds, but agreed.
Jargon Kills (Other Peopleâs Time) From: Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Are you inadvertently wasting other peopleâs time when you speak or write? Hereâs a cautionary tale for anyone who works in a field that uses acronyms, abbreviations, and other jargon.
âWe had an NPS of 80.â
That comment came from a marketer on a panel discussion in a video. She was referring to
Net Promoter Scoreâa metric of how willing customers are to recommend a business to others.
A few people commented on that score, and then the conversation moved on. I thought nothing of it, alas.
But hereâs the thingânot everyone on the panel came from the world of marketing. Probably
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
When my book
The Writerâs Process was first published almost five years ago, it had a rocky launch into the world. A professional reviewer gave it a terrible review, basically questioning why
anyone would want to read a book like this.
They also criticized my writing, calling the prose
lugubrious. Ouch!
That review was an all-you-can-eat buffet for my inner critic. As a new author, I had to work my way past it. (Happily, the book has found its audience of people who
do, in fact, want to read it. Now, I find the episode both funny and educational.)
Nobody Owes Us Attention Tuesday, February 23, 2021
I have a quirky book problem. Once I get through the first few chapters of a book, I feel obligated to keep going, even if Iâve entirely lost interest.
I start skimming, flipping through pagesâdoing anything so that I feel like I reached the end legitimately. It seems absurd even as I do it, but if I page through to the last page, then Iâve met some kind of obligation and given the author the benefit of the doubt.
Sometimes I canât even do that. My Kindle is cluttered with the relics of books that I cannot quite delete. Letâs not even talk about my bookshelves.