Cool Insider says:
ed and tym,Good points raised there. Personally, I feel that any kind of brand should have strong sense of belonging in order to succeed. Of course, the dilemma (which I have faced myself) is when the multiple stakeholders don't necessarily see eye-to-eye. Maybe what tym highlighted is valid on identifying neighbourhood "best practices" that can be transplanted from one to another. Of course, these have to be subject to factors that are comparatively equal from one estate to another.
Which turns out to be the same curse that afflicted my friend slash co-author while he was reading the book a couple of months ago.
Which made me think last week that I'd better finish reading the book stat, or I'm not going to finish writing the other one that's due, er, stat.
The effect is not quite the same as your garden variety writer's block. When we're thusly afflicted, we have our research, we have our chapter outlines, we know what we're going to say --- we just can't make the words happen.
So it was with grim determination that I finished reading Shakespeare: A Biography today. Now those writing juices better start flowing again ...
Or maybe I should henceforth refer to this as "the Ackroyd book" instead of by its title.
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Thirtysomething, Singapore-born and -bred (barring five years spent in wintrier climes), and thus far resisting all forms of government propaganda exalting procreation. I watch too much American TV, eat too much local food (to which the concepts of low-fat/low-cal/low-anything except low price do not apply) and read too many blogs, most of them American or local. I'd love it if Singapore were visited by the monsoon more often and if I could wear jeans to work.
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