When we first saw this “It’s ok to” list floating around the internet, we were immediately fans. What a great way to tangibly codify an organization’s emotional culture! For our forthcoming book, we interviewed Giles Turnbull, the writer at the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) who wrote the list. Giles created the list to help new hires “absorb five years of culture quickly and easily, without having to find things out by accident.” Giles has since moved on from the GDS, but we interviewed him about his experience of creating the list.
Read moreOur Process: Writing A First Draft
Inspired by Chris Yeh’s blog post, “Lessons on Writing a Book,” we decided to write about the differences between how we each approach first drafts. When we begin a new chapter, one of us writes an outline, then we switch and the other writes the first draft, and we continue switching for the subsequent rounds of edits.
Read moreBehind the Book: Writing the Proposal
After Lisa, our agent, said she was interested in the concept of our book, we started working on the proposal (see our last post: Finding an agent). Over the course of about two months, we wrote a draft proposal that was 30 pages long, and sent it over to Lisa, hoping for immediate applause and a book contract. WRONG! :) How little we knew at the time.
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