Entrepreneur magazine is telling business people to do what we do: Tell stories.
There are a couple of lessons here.
First, writers are business people too. When we try to sell our services as freelancers or book writers, we might borrow some of these techniques in talking about ourselves.
Second, who wants to be a ‘meh’ writer. This piece is a pretty straightforward restatement of some pretty basic rules.
And third, don’t forget that there is a market for more prosaic prose.

Turning Content from ‘Meh’ to Wow With Stortelling

http://m.entrepreneur.com/article/230977?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Drawing a map of a room or a building or, in one case, a summer camp, helps me visualize my characters’ lives more completely. This post offers some reasons why.

The Allure of the Map
http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/01/the-allure-of-the-map.html

There are a few reasons I’m sharing this post.
First, I’ve been a sci-fi geek since I was 12, and Gibson’s Neuromancer is a classic.
Second, a writers’ group I belong to is about to begin a project pairing authors with artists to publish a book of verbal and visual art. We can only hope the words inspire art as good as some of these images.
Third, I don’t think I’m the only writer who finds it easier to tell the stories that come to my mind with vivid, if imaginary, surrounding environments.

http://io9.com/the-most-amazing-artworks-based-on-william-gibsons-neu-1507726378