Pursuing Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
Ever wonder what we do? How we help our clients? What is it that we do all day at CG&A COMMUNICATIONS? Much of our day we’ll spend staring into a screen, with fingers effortlessly tapping the keyboard in the pursuit of the next perfect sentence or provocative image. It’s a day of creativity and an…
One of our favourite tweeps is Novelicious – @noveliciouss – who is a writer of addictive novels. One of her favourite tweets is remarkable writing quotes. Here are 10 of her most recent provocative quotes on #writing. “The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.” – T.S. Elliot “For a writer every…
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places…
By George Journal offers these five insightful thoughts on quality content – and we suggest you share (given that it is quality content). . Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a can-do EA or go-to writer? Call 613-983-0801 @ CG&A COMMUNICATIONS.
George Orwell wrote a 1946 essay entitled, Politics and the English Language, in which he laid out five rules for effective writing. Here they are: 1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long word where a short one will…
An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. – Proverb The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. – Benjamin Disraeli I quote others only the better to express myself. – Michel de Montaigne I hate quotations, tell me what you know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson…
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. – Joseph Pulitzer Easy reading is damn hard writing. – Nathaniel Hawthorne Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it….
Through the years By George Journal has offered ideas and background on effective PR and GR tactics as well as the craft of writing. This body of work is an extension of our company’s forte – delivering reliable, strategic advocacy advice and exceptional writing services. And to add some levity to the Journal we pepper…
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. — Joseph Pulitzer Easy reading is damn hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it….
Jennifer Schaffer of BuzzFeed compiled wonderful sentences from throughout the arts and published her list – 51 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature. Here are the top-10 of those 51, as picked by By George. To read and enjoy the full list, go here. “There is a sense in which we are all each…
1. Stop watching television. Instead, read as much as possible. 2. Prepare for more failure and criticism than you think you can deal with. 3. Don’t waste time trying to please people. 4. Write primarily for yourself. 5. Tackle the things that are hardest to write. 6. When writing, disconnect from the rest of…
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “It is a world of words that creates a world of things.” – J.M. Coetzee “Words are soldiers of fortune / Hired by different ideas.” – Maxwell Bodenheim “Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled…
In October of 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although he did not attend the awards ceremony, the following remarks were read for him at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm on December 10, 1954. Hemingway commented on his craft: Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations…
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. – Carl W. Buechner It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. – Mark Twain Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. – Dionysius Of Halicarnassus Be still when you have nothing…
Recently I was asked to improve on a set of speaking notes. The guest speaker had written out some bullet points and was preparing his opening comments. However, he was stuck on how best to deliver his key messages and needed a critical eye to review his notes. Over the course of the copy edit,…
“Be daring, take on anything. Don’t labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.” – Joyce Carol Oates “Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may…
For those who do not know David Ogilvy, he is an infamous, late-1900’s advertising executive and copywriter, one of the pioneers of information-rich, soft-sell ads. We recently came across an article on this advertising giant written by Beth Hayden, Senior Staff Writer for Copyblogger Media. What caught our eye were genius quotes on advertising and…
Here are 5 more of our favourite writers’ quotes posted in the last couple of months, courtesy of the website Advice To Writers. “The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You…
One of our often-visited websites is Advice To Writers, a collection of insights on the craft of writing, collected by Jon Winokur. From our recent surfing, we have selected five of our favourite writers’ quotes posted in the past couple of months. “The most solid advice . . . for a writer is this, I…
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. — Joseph Pulitzer Easy reading is damn hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it….