Words, Camera, Action! How beloved movie and TV quotes can spark our creativity, inspire us, and improve our lives. Welcome to a brand new feature on this site. If you know me at all, you know how much I adore movies. Particularly, I love the words characters say. Good screenplay writing will tug at your heart….
Communicate with Kindness to Improve The World Kindness in language has been on my mind recently. Certain phrases and idiomatic expressions in languages are violent and horrifying. We communicate and use them and likely don’t give them a second thought. They are just things we say, but I have found them increasingly worrisome, especially in this…
Essential Words’ Next Step In order to grow, you must evolve. This podcast is going through some changes.
In today’s Self-made Creative podcast episode, I talk about the dreaded pronoun and pronoun placeholders. Sometimes what’s inside our heads does not come across to the people listening to us. The pronoun often masks the meaning or deflects the meaning all together. I give some strategies on how to be more clear and how to…