by Giles Broadbent | Feb 22, 2022 | Writing
Finding your voice, something that is distinctly you, is not alchemy, it just requires you to be you, says George Saunders, short story supremo A writer’s voice: what is it? You know what it is when you read it. Charles Dickens, JK Rowling, Vladimir Nabokov,...
by Giles Broadbent | Feb 17, 2022 | Culture
The West Wing broadcast its last episode in 2006 offering clues to the characters’ futures. But some of those storylines felt wrong. Here’s why. Like the Olympic marathon, once every four years or so, I watch the entire seven-season run of The West Wing,...
by Giles Broadbent | Feb 14, 2022 | Marketing
There’s something remarkable happening out there, beginning with the letter T. And it launches our list of the top social media trends of the year. 1 TikTok. That’s it. That’s the social media trend TikTok is taking over. The place is a Wild West. It’s madness....
by Giles Broadbent | Jan 18, 2022 | Inspiration
The old notion of “fake it till you make it” has received a bad rap of late – but here’s the twist: there’s scientific evidence to support the idea. We could go so far as to adjust the phrase so it reads “Fake it AND you make it”. But, briefly, back to that bad rap...
by Giles Broadbent | May 18, 2021 | Inspiration
Starting a major project like a novel can be overwhelming at first. Learn from the remarkable Tommy Caldwell about how to conquer the impossible. I can’t do this. That’s often the first reaction after the initial rush of an idea subsides. You think, I can’t do this –...
