Offline reading helps keep your writing fresh and inspired
Hi all
While looking for something else I came across this short
essay that I'd bookmarked a while back.
It's about a great mind and interesting personality at the end
of 1500s Italy, and I encourage you to read it.
My main activity is offline -- giving walking and driving tours
in Italy -- so this piece was right up my alley.
But I'm leaving here with you because I think it's right up your alley, too.
It's colorful but very tight writing with a strong narrative voice,
and it pulls you quickly to the end like a runaway freight train.
It's a hero story, and it has lots of classic elements: a great adversary,
travel, misunderstandings, memory techniques, magic, science,
parables, betrayal, etc.
The best thing about it?
It has absolutely nothing to do with Internet Marketing.
Forums exist to keep us excited, fuel our need for knowledge,
give us a place to vent or share the latest techniques.....
....but if we don't read or get excited about anything else it becomes
a hermetically sealed self-referential world.
If you're paying attention, almost anything can be useful to sell your
story, don't you think?
This one is "all killer, no filler", try it:
Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher
Have a safe and very happy New Years Eve!
Leo
While looking for something else I came across this short
essay that I'd bookmarked a while back.
It's about a great mind and interesting personality at the end
of 1500s Italy, and I encourage you to read it.
My main activity is offline -- giving walking and driving tours
in Italy -- so this piece was right up my alley.
But I'm leaving here with you because I think it's right up your alley, too.
It's colorful but very tight writing with a strong narrative voice,
and it pulls you quickly to the end like a runaway freight train.
It's a hero story, and it has lots of classic elements: a great adversary,
travel, misunderstandings, memory techniques, magic, science,
parables, betrayal, etc.
The best thing about it?
It has absolutely nothing to do with Internet Marketing.
Forums exist to keep us excited, fuel our need for knowledge,
give us a place to vent or share the latest techniques.....
....but if we don't read or get excited about anything else it becomes
a hermetically sealed self-referential world.
If you're paying attention, almost anything can be useful to sell your
story, don't you think?
This one is "all killer, no filler", try it:
Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher
Have a safe and very happy New Years Eve!
Leo