On LinkedIn this week I came across this picture quote: I didn’t have to look at Quote Investigator to instantly know: there’s no way – not in a fit that’s a way manlier colour than pink – that Hemingway wrote this. I mean really. As if the man who spent his life acting, reacting, spending,… Continue reading Papa didn’t preach – and other things Hemingway can teach you about voice
Category: Communication
You’re reading this because YOU GET IT
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece called Don’t Photoshop your story! I have a trusted person who reads my work before it’s published (as you should – emphasis on the trusted, with a subtext of respected) and ran it by him before setting it loose on the world. “It’s good,” he proclaimed. Then, “Just one question:… Continue reading You’re reading this because YOU GET IT
Don’t Photoshop your story!
Let’s get one thing clear: even through its changes in my 40s, I am quite fond of my face. I manage a blurry smile at myself in the mirror first thing in the morning. I moisturise and use sunscreen. And I love how I catch glimpses of my much-missed mother in it, more and more… Continue reading Don’t Photoshop your story!