by AnnSheybani | Dec 17, 2017 | Reading, Uncategorized, Writing
I need to write about this book, and I need to write about it now. For a couple of reasons. First, if I don’t get to it PDQ, Walt is going to beat me to the punch. The last time the two of us were smitten with an idea or a book, he went and wrote this. Even though I’d...
by AnnSheybani | Dec 10, 2017 | Life, Uncategorized
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.–Blaise Pascal I was sitting in a mindfulness breakout session in Dublin last week when the leader wrote this quotation on his whiteboard. It was one of those...
by AnnSheybani | Dec 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
It’s December, which means the holidays are upon us. It’s time to head to the mall to buy a million perfect gifts. I’ve got to confess that this whole gift giving thing confuses me. Walt would affirm me here because ONCE I gave him compression socks...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 27, 2017 | Uncategorized, Writing
Have you written a complete draft of a book, one with tons of bugs still in it? Are you wondering what comes next; what you’re supposed to do, specifically, during revision? If you’ve written a book that doesn’t require a narrative arc—motivational, self-help, or...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 19, 2017 | Life, Uncategorized, Writing
I was driving along the highway in Connecticut when I fell behind a mini Cooper with one of those vanity plates that made me want to hit the brakes. It had two words on it: Xin Loi. It’s a long story how I know this, and neither of us has time to get into it, but Xin...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 12, 2017 | Uncategorized, Writing
A few weeks back I sat at a conference in Dallas and listened to a young man speak on stage. He was raising money for a charity. I was blown away, as was everyone in that room, not just by his mission–bringing clean water to third world villages to prevent...
