Writing
Once you have a wisp of an idea, do some digging to be sure your take is original. Before you can write an original take on an issue, you have to know what is known;
Trish Hall • Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side
Reach out to local media and invite coverage of the religious side in particular religious liberty controversies.
Rod Dreher • The Benedict Option
“The finest language, I believe, is chiefly made up of unimposing words, such as light, sound, stars, music—words really not worth looking at, or hearing, in themselves, any more than chips or sawdust: it is only that they happen to be the signs of something unspeakably great and beautiful”
Richard Cohen • How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
Henry James and Joseph Conrad were good friends, and in mid-career both agreed that in their future books, none of their characters would reply to a question directly, but only comment obliquely—which would add tension.
Richard Cohen • How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
As a sales document, your proposal literally must have something for everyone—specifically, a section written to satisfy the concerns of every department.
Jean Marie Stine • Writing Successful Self-Help and How-To Books (WILEY BOOKS FOR WRITERS SERIES)
You continue this process until you eventually hit upon a totally unoccupied niche, the narrower the better.
Robert Greene • Mastery (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene)
Nested within the table of contents is an outline for each chapter. You should be able to describe, within a few paragraphs, what each chapter is about.
Paul J. Silvia PhD • How to Write a Lot
Of course, there will be times when distinctive, specific details of the person’s past life, profession, or gender are crucial to the point you are making.
Jean Marie Stine • Writing Successful Self-Help and How-To Books (WILEY BOOKS FOR WRITERS SERIES)
Derelict coauthors are a big problem for graduate students, particularly when the coauthor is the faculty advisor.