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There are two types of visions. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be stopped. Now more than ever, I wish I could tell them apart.
Emlyn Chand (Farsighted (Farsighted, #1))
You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help.
Emlyn Chand (Honey the Hero)
He lied with a smile that paralyzed reason." [Abby Chandlis - main character of The List]
Steve Martini
Jaana suno,kuch to kaho,hamse yu na tum rutha karo Apna to sath kuch aiso ho,jaisa chand ka sitaro se ho. Jaana suno, sunte raho, hamse yu tum khafa ho, Apna to sath kuch aiso ho,jaisa nadiya ka kinaaro se ho.
Ravindra Singh
They say that right before you die your whole life flashes before you – a medley of your own personal greatest hits. Well then, I must be about to live, because events that haven’t happened yet are constantly pushing themselves into my head.
Emlyn Chand (Farsighted (Farsighted, #1))
as jolaha ka maram na jana, jinh jag ani pasarinhh tana; dharti akas dou gad khandaya, chand surya dou nari banaya; sahastra tar le purani puri, ajahu bine kathin hai duri; kahai kabir karm se jori, sut kusut bine bhal kori; No one could understand the secret of this weaver who, coming into existence, spread the warp as the world; He fixed the earth and the sky as the pillars, and he used the sun and the moon as two shuttles; He took thousands of stars and perfected the cloth; but even today he weaves, and the end is difficult to fathom. Kabir says that the weaver, getting good or bad yarn and connecting karmas with it, weaves beautifully.
Kabir (The Bijak of Kabir)
growth equals change; change equals loss; loss equals pain; so inevitably, growth equals pain.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Na Jahaan Bheed Ho Na Jahaan Bhar Ke Log Na Shehar Mein Base Laakhon Logon Ka Shor Chand Lamhen Tu Inse Mujhe Durr Kar Chal Chale Apne Ghar Hamsafar Chal Chale Apne Ghar Hamsafar!!!
Neelesh Misra
Note to self: don’t throw things at girls.
Emlyn Chand (Farsighted (Farsighted, #1))
Don’t try to search out a better profile to start with your work but you should start your work for create a better profile.
TanmayChand
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. —G. K. Chesterton
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Liminal space is a concept in theology and psychology. It is the intermediate, in-between, transitional state where you cannot go back to where you were because a threshold has been crossed, and you have yet to arrive where you are going because it is not yet available to you.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Pain is a part of progress. Anything that grows experiences some pain. If I avoid all pain, I’m avoiding growth.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Wait," Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. "I’m already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too.
Emlyn Chand (Honey the Hero)
Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.
Emlyn Chand (Honey the Hero)
Smile is the key that fits to the lock of everybody's heart.
Bharat Chand
Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.
Emlyn Chand (Open Heart (Farsighted, #2))
Do good. That’s all any of us can do.
Emlyn Chand (Farsighted (Farsighted, #1))
Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones,
Paul Scott (The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1))
If you are struggling to get something then you should prepare your mind as you are almost reaching out there.
TanmayChand
Change only happens when our level of desire (or actually desperation) rises above the level of our fears.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Reluctance to face pain is your greatest limitation. There is no growth without change, no change without loss, and no loss without pain.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
pain. If you’re not hurting, you’re not leading. Your vision for the future has to be big enough to propel you to face the heartaches and struggles you’ll find along the way.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Leadership is the lifting of a man’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a man’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a man’s personality beyond its limitations. —PETER DRUCKER
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. —ORISON SWETT M
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Opportunity never comes to you but you should create an opportunity.
TanmayChand
If you are thinking, you are doing very hard work, it’s doesn't means that work is actual hard OR it may be you are inefficient for that work.
TanmayChand
When you interpret your pain as bigger—more important, more threatening, more comprehensive—than your vision, you’ll redefine your vision down to the threshold of your pain.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Difficulties are God’s curriculum for those who want to excel.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Opportunity never comes to you but you should take initiative to get the opportunity.
TanmayChand
Her voice floats past me, swaying rhythmically, creating the sweetest song imaginable
Emlyn Chand (Farsighted (Farsighted, #1))
You’ll grow only to the threshold of your pain.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
The art of leadership is understanding what you can’t compromise on.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Everyday there will be something new for you but it’s depends how do you get it.
TanmayChand
If you are thinking today is nothing to do for me then there is some laziness in your mind and you don’t try to elaborate your thinking for future.
TanmayChand
Never trust a leader who doesn’t walk with a limp. —DR. J. ROBERT CLINTON
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
પચાસ એક થેલીભર હોય છે, સો તો બે થેલીઓમાં પણ ન આવે.’ હ
Munshi Premchand (Premchand Ki Sarvashreshta Kahaniyan Diamond Books (Gujarati))
I’ve said it before, and by gosh, I’ll say it again — don’t be afraid to toot your own horn.
Emlyn Chand
Without a fresh perspective about pain, a compelling vision, and a clear plan, every heartache has the potential to stop you in your tracks.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
As always, Google—or any other search engine of your choice—is another great source of information, search “how to write” + your genre, and see what comes up.
Emlyn Chand (Discover Your Brand: A Do-It-Yourself Branding Workbook for Authors (Novel Publicity Guides to Writing & Marketing Fiction 1))
Yes, being a leader is an incredibly stressful role. The hours are usually long, the pay is often short, and the people are sometimes contentious, but a study by the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center reports that pastors are the happiest people on the planet, outranking even well-paid and highly respected professions like doctors and lawyers.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
But emotional numbness can last for years. “And the longer you are detached,” he explained, “the more painful waking up will be. The longer you are asleep, then the more intense the wake-up process. You’ll have to fight through that pins and needles feeling, shake yourself and start circulating again. Because to remain detached is to die. Slowly. Painlessly numb.”15 God
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Just as women fought for the vote, and that very achievement compels us to the polling stations, so women have fought for the right to exercise and participate in sport, and we cannot throw that away. From the women of ancient Greece putting their lives on the line just by watching sport, and the women in Iran who continue to risk imprisonment today by doing the same, to the likes of Kathrine Switzer who campaigned for women to be allowed to run any distance they liked, or Caster Semenya and Dutee Chand who demand the right to participate in sport as women, without being told what their labia should look like. We
Anna Kessel (Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives)
According to a recent survey by the National Association of Church Business Administration, the average pastor in 2012 makes an annual salary of $28,000. One in five has to work a second job to support his family.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
When you chart the course of your church toward growth, start with one basic assumption: your efforts to grow are going to create many, many problems. Expect them, anticipate them, and welcome them as God’s instructors.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Use door se hi dekhta raha bas yuhi waqt katta raha Na jaane kyu nigahe thami rahi bas uske chahre pe hi thami rahi Kabhi Chand samajhkar to kabhi chandani Hum use dekhte rahe tarjeeb se par kabhi socha na tha ki unka kabhi didar hoga itne kareeb se
Film-Table No 21 Indian
I remembered all the Christmases we’d celebrated, always with a huge tree, situated next to the staircase where I now sat. As a child, I’d sat upon that same step, huddled up against the balus- ters, studying the tree, its shape and decorations; enthralled by the magical light and shadows upon the walls around me. Dancing. Over Christmas the only light in the hallway had come from the silver candelabra burning on the hallway table. But on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day night small candles were attached to the branches of the tree, their soft light reflected in the vast chande- lier suspended high above and thrown back across the walls like stars across the universe. I remembered the smell, that mingling of pine and wax and burning logs: the smell of home, the smell of happiness. I’d sat there in my nightgown, listening to the chime of crystal; the laughter, music and voices emanating from another room, an adult world I could only imagine. And always hoping for a glimpse of Mama, as she whooshed across the marble floor, beautiful, resplendent . . . invincible.
Judith Kinghorn (The Last Summer)
The only time you start at the top is when you’re digging a hole.
Sam Chand
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. —THOMAS CARLYLE
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
If we give, love, and serve to win approval or gain control over others, we’re not really giving at all; we’re only manipulating people for our benefit.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Respect, honesty, responsibility, and hope are the language of a great team leader.
Samuel R. Chand (Cracking Your Church's Culture Code: Seven Keys to Unleashing Vision and Inspiration (Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series Book 54))
Culture—not vision or strategy—is the most powerful factor in any organization.   Culture—not
Samuel R. Chand (Cracking Your Church's Culture Code: Seven Keys to Unleashing Vision and Inspiration (Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series Book 54))
বাঙালিরা মদ খাইতে আরম্ভ করলে, প্রায় মদে তাহাদেরকে খায়।
Tek Chand Thakur (মদ খাওয়ার বড় দায় জাত থাকার কি উপায়)
Great leaders welcome dissenting opinions, as long as they are offered in good will and with an eye toward a solution.
Samuel R. Chand (Cracking Your Church's Culture Code: Seven Keys to Unleashing Vision and Inspiration (Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series Book 54))
Being different is not being odd; it's being unique
Ruhaan Chand
Many people only seek covering when they are in trouble and find themselves trying to deal with long-term problems with short-term friends. Being uncovered isn’t just inconvenient; it’s dangerous. I
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Leaders can do one of three things with those who hold their ladders: retain them because they’re effective, release them because they aren’t, or reassign and retrain them to hold someone else’s ladder. Most
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
At some point, you’ll stop seeing pain as the enemy and make peace with it. Like Paul, you’ll see pain as a surprising source of strength. God’s power, Paul learned, “is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Consider the following questions: • Who in your life “gets you” and doesn’t think you’re weak or strange when you wrestle with the complexities of your role? • Who listens to you without feeling compelled to give you advice? • Who asks second and third questions to draw you out instead of giving pat answers, simple prescriptions, and easy formulas? • Who is your safe haven so you can be completely honest and open? • Who fills your spiritual and emotional gas tank?
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
As we lead organizations—businesses, nonprofits, and churches—size doesn’t matter as much as another crucial factor. The biggest difference between leaders of large organizations and small organizations isn’t their location, the size of their building, the scope of the vision, the number of staff members, or their talent. In fact, some of the best leaders I’ve ever met have small organizations. But in all my consulting and conferences, I’ve seen a single factor: leaders of larger organizations have proven they can handle more pain.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Leadership expert Michael Hyatt reflected on Karnazes’s life and drew three conclusions about why we should embrace discomfort: 1. Comfort is overrated. It doesn’t lead to happiness. It makes us lazy—and forgetful. It often leads to self-absorption, boredom, and discontent. 2. Discomfort can be a catalyst for growth. It makes us yearn for something more. It forces us to change, stretch, and adapt. 3. Discomfort is often a sign we’re making progress. You’ve heard the expression, “no pain, no gain.” It’s true! When you push yourself to grow, you will experience discomfort.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
In a New York Times article, Stanford professor Robert Sutton commented, “One nasty person can bring down a whole group. That can happen because the group members devote more energy to dealing with the bad apple and less energy to the task at hand. Moreover, anger and hostility are contagious, so the whole group can become infected.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Bhogpur is two kos from Bhagmalpur," he said. If Bhogpur is two kos from Bhagmalpur, then it may be possible to make a reasonable guess at our position. It depended on what he meant by a kos. "There are seventy rassis in one kos," Karam Chand said. "There are twelve hundred laggis in one kos," said Bhosla in a sudden garrulous outburst. "There are three thousand six hundred gaj in one kos, said Jagganath, the youngest boatman. "Now I am telling you," said G. "If one kos is three thousand six hundred gaj, there are three miles and eighty yards in one kos." If this was so, we had not travelled more than five miles since the previous morning.* * There is also a gaukos, a rather vague measure - the distance a cow's bellow can be heard.
Eric Newby (Slowly Down the Ganges)
There is nothing in the world as wonderful as knowing that everything is right with you and the Father, knowing you are forgiven and clean. I don’t mean knowing that you’re going to heaven when you die. I mean knowing that everything in your past and present is in the open. You’ve brought everything into the light. You aren’t hiding anything from God or anyone else. The
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
I Have Seen Bengal’s Face - Poem by Jibanananda Das Autoplay next video I have seen Bengal’s face, that is why I do not seek Beauty of the earth any more: I wake up in the dark And see the dawn’s magpie-robin perched under the parasol-like huge leaf Of the fig tree – on all sides I see mounds of leaves of Black plum – banyan – jackfruit – oak – pipal lying still; Their shadows fall on the spurge bushes on zedoary clumps; Who knows when Chand near Champa from his madhukar boat Saw such oaks – banyans – gamboge’s blue shades Bengal’s beauty incomparable. Behula too someday floating on raft on Gangur’s water – When the fullmoon of the tenebrous twelfth night died on the river’s shoal – Saw countless pipals and banyans beside the golden corn, Alas, heard the tender songs of shama – and one day going to Amara. When she danced like a torn wagtail in Indra’s court Bengal’s river field, wild violets wept at her feet like anklet bells.
Jibanananda Das (Bengal the Beautiful)
...churches tend to keep on doing things the way they did them a generation ago. Maybe we don't like to hear exhortations to reexamine our methods because we don't like being pushed to alter the way we've always done things
Sam Chand (Future Faith: Shaping Today's Ministry for Tomorrow's Opportunities)
We lead people, but we manage things.
Sam Chand
Work hard to build or rebuild trust. With it, you can fulfill the greatest dreams. Without it, you’ll crush people’s spirits.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Two alrights make one good.
Surya Chand, Shambala Sect
Todos estamos navegando juntos por esta nueva normalidad. Mientras nos tomamos de los brazos virtualmente e intentamos ayudarnos unos a otros como podemos, nuestro vasto mundo de repente parece un poco más pequeño y mucho más conectado. Y estamos agradecidos por eso. —Michael Dell, CEO de Dell
Samuel R. Chand (El cambio ha cambiado (Spanish Edition))
Munia's eighth birthday falls on the hottest day in June, with the smell of burning cane scenting the air. She forgets the heat in her excitement over the slice of cassata her father has brought all the way from Teetar Bani, the main town. Chand had ordered the precious gift from the only shop in the town that possessed a freezer, and carefully packed it in a tin pail filled with jute sacking and ice purchased from Raju Golasharbatwala's cart. The cassata melts, a puddle of bright colours. She eats it slowly, bending her head to the dented tin plate and lapping up the last delicious drops of strawberry. It is a rare taste, a flavour she has not encountered before. Her father asks, 'One more slice?' She nods, but halfway through, she holds out her plate to Chand, presses the spoon into his hand. 'You also eat. One spoon for you, one for me.' He takes tiny bites.
Nilanjana Roy (Black River)
Jolly says, 'You see? Mr Pilania, I asked your men to come here, I asked my poor neighbour to come here, to assure you of one thing. Whatever help you need, I will give it. Anything your men require to solve this case, to give this grieving man here the chance of revenge on the scum who killed his daughter, ask me. I am here to help.' The SSP says quietly, 'Justice. What we promise is justice.' Jolly says, 'Yes, yes. I agree. But what does Chand want?" Chand appears not to have heard the question. None of them speak as the father stares out towards the carp pond, the light, playful splash of water from the fountain the only sound in the room. The SSP rises, hands folded, to take his leave, and Chand says, I want him dead. The man who took Munia from me, he should die.' Jolly looks away, smiles at Ombir and Bhim Sain. "These policemen are good men,' he says to Chand. I've seen them at work. Early morning, late at night, in summer, in the monsoons, they are out in our village, doing their jobs. I promise you, Chand, this murder will be solved. You will have your vengeance." Ombir notes that, this time, Pilania does not correct him or speak of justice.
Nilanjana Roy (Black River)
Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up. —JAMES BELASCO AND RALPH STAYER
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Zindagi ke kisse, chand lamhon mein rachay, Aate hain log, rang bharne, phir chale jaate hain saath chhod ke. Mulaqatein adhuri si, baatein teri yaadon mein khoyi, Tanha safar, kyun lagta hai, kahani mein hai kuch khaas baat. Tooti doriyan, rishton ke silsile mein chhupi hain, Har musafir le kar aata hai, ek anokhi kahani, phir raahein hi bhatak jaati hain.
Huzefa Nalkheda wala
likhte rahe junuu.n kii hikaayaat-e-KHuu.n-chakaa.n har-chand is me.n haath hamaare qalam hu. The poet kept on writing the blood-dripping story of passion even after his hands were cut-off.
Mirza Ghalib
lost perspective, and I lost my identity. I needed close friends and close staff members to remind me of who I was.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
भाईचारा, समानता और एक दूसरे से जुड़ाव को देखकर मैंने महसूस किया कि अगर अमेरिका के गोरे एक अल्लाह पर यकीन कर लें और इसे मान लें तथा वे सच्ची इंसानी एकता के भाव को अपना लें तो मेरा मानना है कि वे अश्वेत लोगों के  अधिकारों का हनन करने और उन पर जुल्म करना बंद कर देंगे। अमेरिका इस समय नस्लीय और रंगभेद
Muhammad Chand (मेरा मजहब इस्लाम है-malcolm x: मेलकॉम एक्स (Hindi Edition))
Guru Nanak taught his lesson in a simple way. He gave Duni Chand a needle and told him that he would take it from him in the next world. This made the merchant think and realise that he could not take any of his worldly possessions with him to a life after death. He asked for the Guru’s advice about what to do with all his material wealth. “If you give in the name of God and put food into the mouths of needy persons, only then will you have credit to take with you in your next life,” replied Guru Nanak.
Roopinder Singh (Guru Nanak: His Life & Teachings)
If someone hates you it means he/she is thinking about you but your positivity may be changed to love...Just revise your thoughts and encourage yourself.
Tanmay Chand
Being a Christian leader in any organization is one of the most difficult jobs in the world—full of risks, strains, and challenges for the leader and his family—but it’s also the one that offers the greatest hope to make a difference both now and for eternity.
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
Leadership expert Michael Hyatt reflected on Karnazes’s life and drew three conclusions about why we should embrace discomfort: 1. Comfort is overrated. It doesn’t lead to happiness. It makes us lazy—and forgetful. It often leads to self-absorption, boredom, and discontent. 2. Discomfort can be a catalyst for growth. It makes us yearn for something more. It forces us to change, stretch, and adapt. 3. Discomfort is often a sign we’re making progress. You’ve heard the expression, “no pain, no gain.” It’s true! When you push yourself to grow, you will experience discomfort.2
Samuel R. Chand (Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth)
1 We abelieve in bGod, the Eternal Father, and in His cSon, Jesus Christ, and in the dHoly Ghost. 2 We believe that men will be apunished for their bown sins, and not for cAdam’s transgression. 3 We believe that through the aAtonement of Christ, all bmankind may be csaved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel. 4 We believe that the first principles and aordinances of the Gospel are: first, bFaith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, cRepentance; third, dBaptism by eimmersion for the fremission of sins; fourth, Laying on of ghands for the hgift of the Holy Ghost. 5 We believe that a man must be acalled of God, by bprophecy, and by the laying on of chands by those who are in dauthority, to epreach the Gospel and administer in the fordinances thereof. 6 We believe in the same aorganization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, bprophets, cpastors, dteachers, eevangelists, and so forth. 7 We believe in the agift of btongues, cprophecy, drevelation, evisions, fhealing, ginterpretation of tongues, and so forth. 8 We believe the aBible to be the bword of God as far as it is translated ccorrectly; we also believe the dBook of Mormon to be the word of God. 9 We believe all that God has arevealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet breveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. 10 We believe in the literal agathering of Israel and in the restoration of the bTen Tribes; that cZion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will dreign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be erenewed and receive its fparadisiacal gglory. 11 We claim the aprivilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the bdictates of our own cconscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them dworship how, where, or what they may. 12 We believe in being asubject to bkings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in cobeying, honoring, and sustaining the dlaw. 13 aWe believe in being bhonest, true, cchaste, dbenevolent, virtuous, and in doing egood to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we fhope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to gendure all things. If there is anything hvirtuous, ilovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things. Joseph Smith.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Book of Mormon | Doctrine and Covenants | Pearl of Great Price)
Har chand ho mushaahada-e-haq ki guftogo, Bantee nahin hai baada wo saaghar kahe baghair.
Hasan Suhail Siddiqui (DUSK TO DUSK The Eternal Flame of Mirza Ghalib Urdu Poetry (The Mirza Ghalib Collection))
Once you’ve made the perfect match, go online and grab a picture of that person or character. Print it out, and stick it to the wall above your desk. Whenever you begin a new writing session or whenever you find yourself stumped, glance up at that picture of your ideal reader. Write the story to him, and it will feel like talking to a friend. This is a simple trick, but it helps keep you on target with your brand.
Emlyn Chand (Discover Your Brand: A Do-It-Yourself Branding Workbook for Authors (Novel Publicity Guides to Writing & Marketing Fiction 1))
Take a look at your new reader friend. What activities does he enjoy outside of reading? What are his beliefs and values? How about his goals and aspirations?
Emlyn Chand (Discover Your Brand: A Do-It-Yourself Branding Workbook for Authors (Novel Publicity Guides to Writing & Marketing Fiction 1))
spiritual in nature or clean and wholesome, but the type of reader who’d enjoy my books about angels, love, and family would very much have these expectations.
Emlyn Chand (Discover Your Brand: A Do-It-Yourself Branding Workbook for Authors (Novel Publicity Guides to Writing & Marketing Fiction 1))
reviews.
Emlyn Chand (Discover Your Brand: A Do-It-Yourself Branding Workbook for Authors (Novel Publicity Guides to Writing & Marketing Fiction 1))
Treat that target reader like the protagonist of your next novel. Give him a back story; assign some quirks. Make him real.
Emlyn Chand (Discover Your Brand: A Do-It-Yourself Branding Workbook for Authors (Novel Publicity Guides to Writing & Marketing Fiction 1))
Brand is about uniting your interests with those of your readers. Making small adjustments is good business sense, but making big adjustments may mean selling out your vision.
Emlyn Chand (Discover Your Brand: A Do-It-Yourself Branding Workbook for Authors (Novel Publicity Guides to Writing & Marketing Fiction 1))
about your writing: Am I okay with…? Swearing or using foul language? Portraying casual sex? Writing intimate love scenes? Featuring nontraditional sexual fetishes or activities? Writing about infidelity? Writing about murder or suicide? Portraying violence? Describing gory scenes? Portraying abuse or other trauma-inducing situations? Discussing politics or controversial issues? Including or excluding religion or spirituality? Featuring a multicultural cast of characters? Bleak or hopeless endings? Always having to write happily-ever-afters? Restricting your vocabulary for your audience’s age level? Now go through these questions again, this time bearing your target reader in mind. Do your answers match? If not, how do they differ? Are you willing to make exceptions to
Emlyn Chand (Discover Your Brand: A Do-It-Yourself Branding Workbook for Authors (Novel Publicity Guides to Writing & Marketing Fiction 1))
accommodate your reader?
Emlyn Chand (Discover Your Brand: A Do-It-Yourself Branding Workbook for Authors (Novel Publicity Guides to Writing & Marketing Fiction 1))
One more way you can figure out reading patterns is to talk to people you know online or in real life. Ask several people what kinds of books they read, and record your findings. Or, better yet, head to your local library and talk to a librarian. They are a super knowledgeable bunch who love helping their patrons find answers!
Emlyn Chand (Discover Your Brand: A Do-It-Yourself Branding Workbook for Authors (Novel Publicity Guides to Writing & Marketing Fiction 1))
Google your target genre along with the words “readers” and “demographics.
Emlyn Chand (Discover Your Brand: A Do-It-Yourself Branding Workbook for Authors (Novel Publicity Guides to Writing & Marketing Fiction 1))
Record any common themes these reviewers mention over and over again, and you’ve just created an invaluable “cheat sheet” to writing your genre.
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female? Is your reader under 18? Over 40? Is your reader married? Does your reader have children? Grandchildren? Has your reader graduated high school? College? If your reader is done with school, what is her occupation? If your reader is still in school, which extracurricular activities does he take part in? Does your reader live in the city? In the country? In the suburbs? What ethnicity is your reader? What is your reader’s religion, if any? Does your reader go through a book per day? Or only a book per month? A few books per year? Does your reader have a great deal of money to spend on books? Or is your reader more strapped for cash? Does your reader prefer eBooks or paperbacks? How does your reader feel about audiobooks? Does your reader buy books, borrow from a friend, or check out books from the library? Does your reader enjoy discussing books with others, or would she rather not? Does your reader socialize mainly on the Internet or in-person?
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everything carefully. Although this step is optional, it’s important for determining whether your brand is changing or evolving.
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Analyzing Your Patterns As you went through the questions above, were there any notecards you consistently placed far away from the rest? If so, these are your outliers, the ideas that don’t mesh with the direction of your brand.
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about them makes them so different from the others? Is it genre? Target audience? Tone? By thinking about how these ideas differ, it will be easier to determine how the other ideas are the same.
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becoming an author means becoming a small—or large—business owner.
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To identify those expectations, you must first identify your reader. Let’s do that now.
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