eBook Review: You Are A Writer (So Start ACTING Like One) by Jeff Goins
Today, I’m excited to share about a new eBook resource for writers that will be available in the next couple of days from Jeff Goins. In You Are A Writer (So Start ACTING Like One), Jeff shares tips and encouragement for writers.
First, Jeff who blogs regularly at goinswriter.com challenges readers to change their attitude about writing. He encourages readers to take on the title of “writer.” I have always considered myself to be an engineer, a father, a husband, and a leader, but thanks to Jeff I now consider myself to be a writer.
You Are A Writer provides key advice for finding your voice as a writer. Jeff explains how to build a platform, how to establish a brand, and how to utilize channels of connection. As a blogger for the past four or five years, I came away from You are A Writer with valuable information that will help me grow in my writing.
Finally, Jeff shares his insights in how newer writers and take the next step towards publication. You Are A Writer provides step by step essentials for progressing from a closet writer to becoming published in magazines and on-line to writing your own book. This eBook is an excellent resource that I will come back to again and again in my pursuit of becoming a better writer. You Are A Writer has my recommendation.
Thanks, Jeff, for sharing your writing experience and knowledge with us!
Are you a writer? What’s your next step in your writing journey?
Update 5/2/2012 from Jeff Goins: The website http://youareawriter.
eBook Review: An Idiot’s Guide To The Galaxy by Kevin Haggerty
Today, I’m honored to be included on a list of select people who picked up a preliminary copy of a new eBook that is being released today. In An Idiot’s Guide To The Galaxy, Kevin Haggerty utilizes his wit and humor to pull the reader into his take on the everyday idiot.
At first, I wasn’t sure what I was getting into when I agreed to read Kevin’s eBook. I mean I don’t consider myself an idiot, and I’m not one to call others on the carpet for their idiotic behavior. But I learned right off the bat in Chapter 1 (An Idiot’s Guide to Driving) that I might actually be more of an idiot that I first imagined. Oh well. As I read through the remaining chapters, I realized that in one way or another we’re all idiots. While An Idiot’s Guide To The Galaxy brings this fact to light, it also encourages the readers to hold each other accountable to overcoming the idiotic things in our lives. You have to check out Kevin’s new eBook. Click here to get more info. By the way it’s FREE – how can you go wrong!
I could have added a chapter titled “An Idiot’s Guide to Yard Work and Home Improvement”. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve shocked myself, inflicted myself with poison ivy, run over things with the lawn mower, and damaged formally perfect drywall, piping, etc. Just this weekend, I decided to prune my raspberries wearing short sleeves and shorts. You should see the scratches up and down my arms and legs today. I must be an idiot too!
What have you done recently that qualifies you to be an idiot?
Book Review: Interviewing Your Daughter’s Date by Dennis Rainey
Last month, Leanne and I attended a FamilyLife Weekend to Remember event in Hershey, PA. As you may recall from a few of my posts, this was a memorable and special weekend for us. While we were there, we picked up several books to help us in our marriage and in our parenting. One such resource was Interviewing Your Daughter’s Date (8 Steps To No Regrets) by FamilyLife co-founder and president Dennis Rainey.
Interviewing Your Daughter’s Date is a short book designed for father’s with daughters. In this book, Rainey offers his perspective on how to approach the whole dating thing with your daughter and her potential dates. Rainey recommends a process of interviewing each young man prior to permitting his daughter to go out with him. This may sound old-fashioned and intimidating, but I think that Rainey is on to something.
Not only does this method protect the daughter from guy’s who might not match up with the family expectations for moral perspective, work ethic, and boundaries, Rainey’s interviewing process provides an opportunity to shape the lives of young men. As part of the interview, Dennis Rainey asks each young man to use this method if and when their own daughter’s start to date.
Interviewing Your Daughter’s Date comes at a good time in my parenting path. My daughter, Hannah, hasn’t started dating yet; however, at age 14, the whole dating thing isn’t too far off. As a dad, I want to be prepared to protect my daughter and to help her find the right man. Rainey’s book definitely gives me a lot to think about as I prepare for this time in my parenting journey.
I would recommend Interviewing Your Daughter’s Date to any parent with daughters. You’ll find the book educational, encouraging, and thought-provoking.
When was your last interview?
Do you have any daughters? If so, how have you handled the dating process or how do you plan to handle the dating process?
Help Me Write My First Book
Yesterday on Michael Hyatt’s blog, Mary DeMuth guest posted about setting goals for the future and going for it now (Why You Should Be Living for the Future Now). Through the comments that followed the post, I had the opportunity to interact with Mary and other readers about my own passion for writing. I shared in the comments that I was considering the possibility of taking my writing to a different place by writing a book someday.
Through the on-line dialogue, my friend Tom asked me about the subject of my book. I threw out a few ideas that I’ve considered, and I shared that I wasn’t all together sure. The conversation continued with a suggestion that I use my blog as a stepping off point for my book. To which Mary proposed that I ask my readers to give me feedback on which Jon Stolpe Stretched blog posts resonated with them the most.
Hmmm…. (That’s the sound of me thinking). Maybe this isn’t such a bad idea.
So what do you think?
Can you help me?
What Stretched blog posts resonate with you the most? I’d love to hear your thoughts. You could help write my first book!