The Bookwright » Creativity

From Electronic Engineer to Writer’s Unblocker

thebookwright — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:51:34 +0000

I was honoured and thrilled to be interviewed by book designer extraordinaire and author of A Self Publisher’s Companion, Joel Friedlander, last week.

Joel is one of life’s polymaths and, accordingly, we covered a wide panology of topics in less than 3o minutes such as …

How the scientific method can be applied to lightbulb moments How did an [...]

Your 1st draft in a month

thebookwright — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:23:29 +0000

A book is one of the best business cards you will ever have. Having a book written around your domain expertise is a wonderful door opener. If you would like to share your wisdom and knowledge with the world, it has never been a better time to get your book published and it has never been easier to [...]

That was 2010

thebookwright — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:17:22 +0000

So another year is nearly behind us and what a year it’s been. For me, much of the ground work I put in place in 2008 and 2009 came to fruition and I’d like to send a big thank you out to all that have helped and contributed along the way. Before launching into another year – and [...]

Add a little dash to your writing

thebookwright — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:22:49 +0000

The In-spirational Hyphen A hyphen can make a huge difference in a word and give it a new semantic and the reader a new insight.

I’ve been reading Lee Carroll’s Kryon channellings recently. In his first book, The End Times, he channeled much about “voiding karma” and taking the “neutral implant”. The simple message is one that we [...]

Writing a Trojan Horse

thebookwright — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:57:24 +0000

If you have an important message you want to share with the world, how do you go about it? The answer lies in writing a literary Trojan Horse using metaphor and story telling. For example, the secular and the cynic might shy away from the Mind, Body, Spirit section of a bookstore – be it online or [...]

Feeling Chuffed

thebookwright — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:10:28 +0000

I’ve just woken up this morning and found my latest book has gone through the whole production process with O-books and has gone off to the printers!! What this means is that I can proudly claim to have three non-fiction books published in just over a year – and what’s more, they even make a sensible trilogy [...]

You Thought You Had 5 Seconds

thebookwright — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:34:02 +0000

When people repeat the same thing often enough it can enter the common psyche and be assumed to be true.

A good example might be an urban myth like the lemmings jumping off a cliff. It’s now equally well known (or thought as such) that this was a staged scene in a Walt Disney friendly critters-type movie. [...]

Flavours of Thought: Recipes for Fresh Thinking

thebookwright — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:20:50 +0000

NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE KINDLE AND KINDLE READER - for Kindle, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry & Android This book is a book of transformation. We go about our days not giving our thoughts a second thought. This is a real shame as our thoughts fundamentally changes the world around us.

In Part 1 Flavours of Thought, our thoughts processes are divided [...]

The anatomy of a click through

The Bookwright — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:46:16 +0000

When we click on a link, we don’t give it a second thought – especially these days when we are presented with 100′s if not 1000′s of potential hyperlinks each day. Links nowadays are not limited to those on web sites or in email newsletters. They abound in Twitter tweets and on Facebook Walls. Knowing how and why [...]

The Book You Were Born to Write

The Bookwright — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:15:16 +0000

It’s a cliché I know but it’s said there’s a book inside everyone. In my experience, once the first one comes out, a veritable flood ensues and there is no stopping a writer.

This particular Bookwright specialises in the “book” of the author’s life with the printed (or ebook) being a kind of by-product. In turn, this [...]