How to Create 21st Century Leaders
Last month I wrote about what the entrepreneur actually needs to have in his ‘toolkit’ to be able to succeed, which provoked some debate within my own household about whether these were skills that were necessary only now in the 21st Century, or whether they had always been a requirement of any good entrepreneur.
The debate, like many others, continued in this vein for some time and no real conclusion was reached, except that an entrepreneur is also a leader (whether this is in their own organisation or in someone else) and that the qualities and attributes they needed were often synonymous with those that a great lead...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - August 3, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Writing Business Source Type: news
In conversation with Jill Waters, Hysteria 2021 winner
Jill was the short story category winner with The Day of Glorious Silliness in Hysteria 2021 writing competition. Her winning entry was published in Hysteria 8. Jill is a retired special needs teacher who started writing to exercise her brain. She exercises her body by playing tennis and her patience by supporting Norwich City!
Listen to the interview
https://hysterectomy-association.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Jill-waters-interview.mp3
Key takeaways from this episode:
Jill’s winning short story is a very uplifting piece but that’s not her usual style of writing
She loves a snow day and her story was i...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - August 3, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Podcast author interview hysteria 2021 hysteria 8 hysteria winners Source Type: news
In conversation with Jill Waters, Hysteria 2021 winner
Jill was the short story category winner with The Day of Glorious Silliness in Hysteria 2021 writing competition. Her winning entry was published in Hysteria 8. Jill is a retired special needs teacher who started writing to exercise her brain. She exercises her body by playing tennis and her patience by supporting Norwich City!
Listen to the interview
https://lindaph.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Jill-waters-interview.mp3
Key takeaways from this episode:
Jill’s winning short story is a very uplifting piece but that’s not her usual style of writing
She loves a snow day and her story was inspired by a phot...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - August 3, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Podcast author interview hysteria 2021 hysteria 8 hysteria winners Source Type: news
How to be a rockstar blogger: part 4
What is the best form of content?
I’m an author and a writer and I love the power of the written word, as such I find it reasonably easy to create content, write new books and add blog posts.
It would be easy for me to assume that my audience is similarly inclined and that all I should prepare is more and more written content. This is a fallacy though and once again we need to out ourselves into the ‘it’s not about me’ mindset.
Everyone has preferences when it comes to what they like to interact with. For some it will be the written word in the form of books, articles, magazines, and online written content; ot...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - July 30, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Writing Business rockstar blogger Source Type: news
Who ’ s looking at you kid?
Location, location, location. That’s the tile of a TV series about moving house. But it equally applies to writing. The location of a whole book, poem or even just a scene can make or break a readers experience of your writing.
All the photo’s this month come from Burgh Island. This is the bar as it was when I was there back in 2012. It may have changed, I haven’t been back since to check it out so don’t know. But it seems to me that interesting conversations often happen in bars when patrons have often had a bit too much to drink and their guard is lowered.
What conversation does this picture of a ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - July 28, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Creative Writing writing prompt Source Type: news
Read, revise, review, repeat
Welcome to the third in the series of blog posts I’m writing during my time as the 2022 Hysteria Writer In Residence. You’ll notice it’s a bumper post, that’s to make up for the gap last month – life and Covid overtook me! Pheww!
Over the last two blogs I’ve talked about submission guidelines (and why they matter), and things to do to help you get stuck in to a new piece of work. Last time, I promised this blog post would explore how we can develop a piece that we’ve already begun.
Sometimes, a piece seems to arrive close to done, and hurrah for those ideas that spark, fly across the sky and burst into a ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - July 27, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: El Rhodes Tags: Hysteria hysteria 2022 writer in residence Source Type: news
What does an entrepreneur need in his toolbox?
There are many things that budding entrepreneurs need. Some are physical or practical. Others though are more personal and reflect a set of qualities or personality traits that will help anyone setting up in business to make it through the first few years.
They include such personal skills as Intuition, Tenacity, Vision, Self Knowledge, Passion, to NOT be Risk Averse and finally open to change. So let’s think about these in a little more detail:
Intuition: There is no doubt about it being an entrepreneur can be quite a lonely place at times, the buck stops with you … you are the decision maker and you need to be re...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - July 25, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Writing Business Source Type: news
Being with Jeremy
How does time affect a story or a poem? Perhaps it’s in the cadence and rhythm, perhaps it’s in the backwards and forwards between timelines. Or perhaps it’s simply the passage of one era to the next.
Whatever the reason for using time in your writing, it’s important to understand how it feels to the reader. Does it make sense to them too? Can they understand the reason you have chosen the expression of time you have?
This week’s word square is an attempt to think about time, about how it affects us as it moves forwards (and perhaps backward) through a life. How does one’s perspective c...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - July 21, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Creative Writing word square wordsquare writing prompt Source Type: news
How to make your presentation effort go the extra mile
This article originally appeared on my LinkedIn profile in June 2014.
Image: Cicero Denounces Catiline (1888), Wikipedia
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Source: The Hysterectomy Association - July 20, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Writing Business Source Type: news
Exploring like Agatha
Can we be inspired by being in the same location as a great writer? That’s the question I’d like to ponder with this week’s writing prompt. How might the late great Agatha inspire you to dissect what happens on this cliff top walk on Burgh Island?
All the photo’s this month come from Burgh Island. Burgh Island Hotel is closely linked to the crime novelist Agatha Christie, as it inspired the settings for both And Then There Were None and the Hercule Poirot mystery Evil Under the Sun. The 2001 TV adaptation of Evil Under the Sun used the island as a filming location. Several scenes from the BBC’s 19...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - July 14, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Creative Writing writing prompt Source Type: news
Happy Days
Experience is an important element of any story. And this week’s word square is designed to get you thinking about the more prosaic experiences that are the meat and two veg of anyone’s life.
I know a story is supposed to be dramatic, but stories often bury themselves deeply in people’s psyche’s when they also show the mundane, the everyday reality of life with the occasional foray into something different.
Can you conjure up a poem, a scene, or a regular event that could punctuate a bigger piece? Something a reader would recognise as the every day in your poetic or fiction world, and then add a li...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - July 7, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Creative Writing word square wordsquare writing prompt Source Type: news
If I were 22 today
When I was 22 I was that annoying combination of confident and naïve. I was confident that the world was going to bow down before me as I bent it to my will.
At the same time, I was naïve enough to believe I knew it all and that no one could tell me anything. It was an unsustainable state of being, the consequences of which I have lived with every day ever since.
If I were 22 today I’d want to maintain that sense of having the world at my feet because it’s in this place that big dreams and opportunities lie. My aim would be to learn what my innate talents were and how they could be turned to something I could become ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - July 5, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Life Source Type: news
Stained glass shattering
How often do you look up? Think about it, really think about it. We are so used to looking down at phones or devices. People are frequently looking ahead to see where they are going. Occasionally we look to the right or left because we’re chatting with someone beside us. But we rarely look up, unless it’s for a specific purpose.
This week’s writing prompt is designed to encourage you to think about what happens when you look up.
All the photo’s this month come from Burgh Island of Agatha Christie fame. I went with a friend for lunch one day about ten years ago and had fun wandering around capturing ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 30, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Creative Writing writing prompt Source Type: news
The other world
I don’t know about you but I often happen across random ‘things’ that are out of context and this week’s photo prompt is no exception.
This beautifully crafted gate and stile just sat in the middle of the field all on their lonesome. They weren’t keeping anything in or protecting an area from things without. So why were they there?
Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to tell us why they are there and what can be found beyond them.
Please feel free to leave your first line, paragraph or even title in the comments below. You could even craft a complete piece of flash fiction for this...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 23, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Creative Writing writing prompt Source Type: news
6 reasons why new small businesses fail
There have been a lot of words written over the years explaining why businesses fail. A little research though shows it mostly boils down to 6 common factors and themes.
Starting your business for the wrong reasons. Many people start businesses as a result of a change in their working lives. For instance, they may be made redundant and can’t find alternative employment so decide that they may as well work for themselves to earn some money. Others believe that working for themselves will give them more time for their hobbies or their family, if this is the case then you need to finely balance what you need to earn with t...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 22, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Technology Source Type: news
