Look Smarter, Write Faster and Get Better Results from Your Writing

By Chris Dunmire

Welcome to the first stop of the official blog tour for Linda Dessau's new book, The Customizable Style Guide for Coaches Who Write. Yes, this book is by the same coach author who wrote all those wonderful and inspiring creativity and self-care articles for the Creativity Portal Web site.

Oh, this is so thrilling — I've never been part of a blog tour before, and so to prepare for your arrival I've spent TWO whole days sweeping and dusting around here cleaning up broken bits of html and spell-checking things so it looks like I've learned some new things from Linda's nifty little desktop reference. Well, I have! I've also been practicing voicing this piece in a down-to-earth, friendly, informal, conversational, high energy, and funny tone!

To further set the scene, let's imagine there's a big book-signing table set up here with a stack of Linda's Style Guides on top. Oh, you want an autographed copy now, do you? Well, pretend the author is sitting behind the table with a very cool blue Sharpie marker signing the inside cover: "To: (your name), May you be right the next time you write!" Isn't this blog tour great?

Why I think you should read this book

Besides looking smarter, writing faster, and getting better results from your writing, if you're a creativity coach, life coach, or heck, even a baseball coach who thinks writing anything for work is simply a footnote detail you can scrap together like a drunken text message to your best friend, then you NEED this book.

For example, I can't tell you how many times my first name has been misspelled in reply e-mails by other professionals when it's sitting right there in my signature for the recipient to copy! I've been addressed as Chirs, cris, and Kris. See how important these little details are? And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to written communication. Some people aren't so forgiving, and this can ultimately affect the bottom line for you. Do you want to be a coach in business or a coach out of business?

Learn more great things about Linda's cool new book by visiting her markety ForCoachesWhoWrite.com Web site or board the groupie bus and follow the links around the tour to other blogs this week. Tomorrow the blog tour continues with Biana Bibansky at her blog Avocado Consulting.

Hmmm... now what kind of consulting would an avocado need? Here's what an avocadon't need: more pity. •

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