by Jac Fitzenz | Jan 22, 2020 | Informational
Plot plus characters are the two fundamentals of fiction. Of course, you have to write good dialogue and graphic descriptions of the story’s setting, but without a plot neither the writer or the reader knows where the story is going. There are a number of books on...
by Jac Fitzenz | Jan 17, 2020 | Informational
Consultant Nancy Erickson offers a guide to getting started on the book you’ve always wanted to write but don’t know where to begin.Think about how you would start any multi-layered project – like building a house. You’d start with a plan, wouldn’t you? Your book...
by Jac Fitzenz | Jan 16, 2020 | Analytics
Until the 1980s workforce planning was a common activity. But with the layoffs starting in 1989 planning disappeared for nearly a decade. Just as it would have restarted the dotcom mania struck. It wasn’t until about 2005 that management realized how important...
by Jac Fitzenz | Jan 14, 2020 | Articles
By Mike Larson of Larsen Pomada If you’ve thought about writing a book and getting it published you may have wondered how difficult it would be. The bad news is it is quite difficult. Some of the great books of the past twenty years were rejected numerous times before...
by Jac Fitzenz | Jan 9, 2020 | Analytics
There is no shortage of data in organizations these days. In fact, less than five percent of the mass of objective and subjective data generated will ever need to be used. The issue is now to optimize that five percent to transform it from raw data into business...
by Jac Fitzenz | Jan 7, 2020 | Informational
1. When you start writing a new book. Your existing readership, if you have one, will be excited to hear about a new book project in the works. And that means a blog or print publication that covers literary news or your topic of choice (for non-fiction books) stands...
by Jac Fitzenz | Jan 2, 2020 | Analytics
Like me, you probably receive more magazines, free and paid for, than you can possibly read. If you took the time to do that you would either not have time to do any work or be overwhelmed by so many, often conflicting, prescriptions that you would be paralyzed. If,...
by Jac Fitzenz | Dec 31, 2019 | Informational
Does your author bio induce snoring? Your book is riveting, but your author bio is a snooze.If you’re afraid the above sentence may describe you, well — don’t be too hard on yourself; plenty of brilliant authors freeze up when it comes to writing about themselves in...
by Jac Fitzenz | Dec 26, 2019 | Analytics
There is a human tendency to think in generalizations; those types of people, children, senior citizens, men, women, dogs, cats and so forth. Within any group there is a great deal of variance. We often talk about employees as a single entity when we know well that...
by Jac Fitzenz | Dec 24, 2019 | Short Stories
Jac FitzenzNo horizon. Earth and sky dissolve into one brittle cold, gray dome.Small man stands at the gate, stomps his feet, stares down the runway. No sign of the plane. Already thirty minutes late. Turning, he retreats quickly into the shelter of the terminal.No...
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