WRITING PLAN

This could be the main thing to focus on right now. What is one trying to communicate and effect with writing? Perhaps it is to not impossible to sell a really big plan. That could be a major challenge.

Nonfiction Book Proposal
Most nonfiction books are sold on the basis of a book proposal—a detailed outline and marketing plan for a book. Authors sell the idea in a proposal, then, if things go well, they get hired to write the full book. There are industry-standard marks that a book proposal must hit, and, most importantly, you need to zero in on what exactly your book is about. You will learn all about proposals in this course taught by a literary agent.
 

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Inspiration + Savvy = Publication I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something.— Steve Martin If you agree with Steve, then you probably want your work to reach real readers. While most of Gotham's courses focus on the art and craft of writing, we also offer the following courses devoted exclusively to getting your work published: How to Get Published This course focuses on getting a book published. You will learn about agents and publishing houses and how best to approach them. And you will work on crafting the all-important query letter—that letter you send out enticing agents and editors to consider your work. You will also learn the pros and cons of self-publishing. This course is taught by a literary agent. NYC, One-day Intensive happening on Friday, February 1 and Saturday, February 23. Online, 4-week Selling Seminar starts February 13. Nonfiction Book Proposal Most nonfiction books are sold on the basis of a book proposal—a detailed outline and marketing plan for a book. Authors sell the idea in a proposal, then, if things go well, they get hired to write the full book. There are industry-standard marks that a book proposal must hit, and, most importantly, you need to zero in on what exactly your book is about. You will learn all about proposals in this course taught by a literary agent. Online, 4-week Selling Seminar starts February 20. Hit Send: Publishing Short Nonfiction This course focuses on publishing short-form nonfiction (articles, essays, reviews, recipes, etc.) in magazines, newspapers, and websites. In some cases, you try to sell a finished piece; in other cases you sell work based on a pitch. You will learn which approach is used for which kinds of pieces, and you will learn how to maximize your chances of publishing such works. This course is taught by a working freelance writer. Online, 4-week Selling Seminar starts February 20. If you need further guidance on which course is right for you, give us a call at 212-974-8377. We will never tell you that getting published is easy. But we can guarantee it will be much tougher without knowing the realistic and proper way to pursue your publishing dream. Gotham Writers Workshop gothamwriters.com   Customer Service 212-974-8377 contact@gothamwriters.com       Unsubscribe / Preferences     Copyright © 2019 Gotham Writers Workshop, All rights reserved. You have received this email based on your request to receive updates from Gotham Writers Workshop.

YALE AND PLANT BASED FOOD

Some good ideas for feeding the hungry that SAB might aim for. More than 80% of food served is plant based. St. Ann is a great place for raising natural (plant-based) food.

Yale Hospitality serves 14,000 meals a day. How do you do it?

Taherian: We have an amazing group of about 850 culinarians and staff whose number-one focus is to create memorable experiences for each and every one of those 14,000 people. But we’re not so much focused on the number of meals served but the quality of the service and the quality of the program that we provide. And that’s second to none. In 2016, we were the recipients of the International Food Manufacturer’s Association Gold and Silver Plate award, one of the top honors in the country.

https://news.yale.edu/2019/01/31/how-did-yale-hospitality-become-lean-green-leader-even-chinas-asking?utm_source=YNemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=yn-01-31-19

LYNN'S CORRECTION TO THE PREVIOUS

The following list does not include numerous complex matters which cannot be addressed in a proposal right now.  It's important that the listed projects not be executed in such a way as to derail  those more complex matters.  In other words, work done now should not be tantamount to painting oneself into a corner.

PRACTICE PROPOSAL

TODAY'S WRITING TASK (No need for edits)

To Whom It Concerns

I'm a development consultant who works online, using such modern technologies as Skype, PayPal, Zelle, Facebook, Google Sattellite Mapping, Google Street, and others. 

Experience

- Collaboration on the Weeks Neighborhood Plan with the US National Park Service, and Urban Ecology, Inc. of the San Francisco Bay Area.

- I have received many citations from legislators and been the subject of many newspaper, book and magazine publications for my work to promote culturally and ecologically sensitive development.

http://www.urbanecology.org/downloads/WeeksNeighborhoodPlan.pdf

Jamaican Government new Parliament Building

- Living abroad and involved with my local planning issues, I was not alerted in time to have some proactive input on the new building, which now is in the final stage of proposal selection.

- But it's not too late to for a process to ask top winners to consider the following recommendations for adapting their designs:

Beyond those in the following list will be very complex considerations outside the scope of an immediate and specific consultation proposal, but I will anticipate these complex matters and see that what is done now doesn't foreclose on what will probably need to be done in the future. In other words, work done now should not be tantamount to painting oneself into a corner.

existing landscape

small animals

map of island

reflecting island-wide crises and issues (such as energy suupply)

planning for systematization--how water sheds and coastal systems interrelate

fisheries

education

small enterprize

RIFKIN

Gail Tverberg quotes from jeremy Rifkin's latest book (below this response of mine):

But where does Rifkin deal with that cultism or monasticism that you (and I) have considered sine qua non? Or Reinhold Niebuhr's Divine Madness of the Soul? Apparently, Rifkin can do without mystery. Then what about the human proclivity to tribalism? Does he consider that? Does he also consider that the path we're on might have to do with somebody's (not everybody's) epistemological construction? .

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"This is what Jeremy Rifkin’s book blurb on the same subject says:

The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a second collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperate for a sustainable economic game plan to take us into the future.

Here, Jeremy Rifkin explores how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful “Third Industrial Revolution.” He asks us to imagine hundreds of millions of people producing their own green energy in their homes, offices, and factories, and sharing it with each other in an “energy internet,” just like we now create and share information online.

Rifkin describes how the five-pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution will create thousands of businesses, millions of jobs, and usher in a fundamental reordering of human relationships, from hierarchical to lateral power, that will impact the way we conduct commerce, govern society, educate our children, and engage in civic life.

Rifkin’s vision is already gaining traction in the international community. The European Union Parliament has issued a formal declaration calling for its implementation, and other nations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, are quickly preparing their own initiatives for transitioning into the new economic paradigm.

The Third Industrial Revolution is an insider’s account of the next great economic era, including a look into the personalities and players ― heads of state, global CEOs, social entrepreneurs, and NGOs ― who are pioneering its implementation around the world."

PATINA

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3699692811205&set=oa.10150677416782893&type=3&theater&ifg=1

Trevor Burrowes I saw what looked like a later (post 2000) version--painted with a porch. But I like this version much, much better. So full of patina, "color," texture... Painted up, all that was lost.

Turquoise Trail

REGIONAL OPEN SPACE

By Trevor Burrowes

Open space might be better valued and protected if it serves as many purposes as possible. Some of its current uses are:

- Scenic draw

- carbon sink

- quality of life enhancement (keeping down crime, reducing need for services,etc.)

BUT OPEN SPACE MIGHT HAVE OTHER VIRTUES

- Just as it is a carbon sink now, it could be more of a sink for the wastes of the industrial society we have come to depend on. Among possible added possible uses

- If fossil fuel price collapse causes the grid to fail, other sources of energy would need to be found locally. 

- Madrid may still have coal sufficient to power the nearby region.

- Since coal combustion exhaust is brutally nasty to living creatures, there might be ways to drastically reduce its exhaust harms using open space.

- Long conduits running out of sight over open land slowly discharging exhaust directly into carbon-absorbing vegetation directly attached to it could be examined for its efficacy

BUT IF OPEN SPACE IS BUILT UPON WITHOUT STRATEGIC PLANNING, IT COULD FORECLOSE ON SUCH FUTURE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC POSSIBILITY FOR MADRID .

TOO EARLY FOR EDITS

Since I'm hoping this will fit into Lynn's reading schedule, I'll keep it somewhat short, not including Jo's very extensive and welcome comments today just now.

Jo, I wrote the following before I read your email, and hope it explains a little bit better that I'm not trying to evade money; just to integrate it with other things so as to make it go farther. It's not the way the world thinks about money, but it may be an alternative worth looking into. (BTW, I surprised my spouse today...and myself...in how focused I was about money. I don't believe she expected me to be as concerned with her huge credit card balance, incurred for our shared benefit. I think she thought it was HER responsibility to pay off--although I've already started to chip in to a degree she may also find surprising.). And I was very clear that it was OUR responsibility and that I had a very logical plan for going about it. She didn't exactly say it, but I think she was surprised that my thinking was so strong and so practical. I'm very very thrifty, and my old organization was never in the red. So what to others would be a small sum of money goes a long way with me. But imagine combining these qualities with MAKING money! The following might explain the premise or principle behind how I see this working:

ENERGY

- Money is a token of future energy supply

- It is all about energy basically--spiritual, mental, physical

- You might say that energy is the essential principle, but that it manifests in various ways--spiritual, mental, physical included

- Physical energy tends to be seen to exclusion of nonmaterial forms of energy

- That syndrome is linked to the divorcing of business from interlocked energy dynamics 

- The business-first approach compartmentalize itself away from the the spiritual

- For convenience, I distinguish physical energy as follows: physical energy=(energy), spiritual energy=(spirit) 

- Energy and spirit are interlocking flows.

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FODDER TO BE MINED, REFINED AND WEEDED

Here's a kind of list of singled out subjects I've recently been thinking are sure things for me. I don't know what to call them--subjects, issues, ideas or what:

- all school children and students need to be helping deal with the real world'd crises

- all colonial structures should be saved--we haven;t even studied or documented them!

- all colonial environments need to be photodocumented and measured (cursorily measured even)

- marine sanctuaries should go at regular intervals all around Jamaica's coast (and possibly all coasts in the world)

- none of the above is all that technically hard or beyond the financial means of the world

- if that is true, what's holding us back is how and what we think or believe

- we can't get anywhere by rushing forward amidst disfunction--inside us or in the world outside

The above looks like a reasonable starting point for discussion, but smarter ways to begin a discussion abound--I'm either not seeing them or can't accept or understand them

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THE FUNNY NIHILISTIC PART

I'm not chasing down specific outcomes, or tying to "succeed." The only success I'm trying for is to develop a plan of action that is as compelling as I can make it. That is a very serious goal. 

The world is self organizing, meaning that we neither can EXPECT nor should chase down specific outcomes. What I see us required to do is create a plan of action that is so thoughtfully geared toward a desired and probable outcome, so inspired, so  elegant and yes, so beautiful that, like honey, it catches a large number of flies. If my plan of action (like when I make artwork that resonates) delights me, it is very likely to delight others. 

TRANSFORMATION (a monastic order)

Everything looks the same

transformation from the inside

transformed due to how it's perceived--quantum physics

It's a deceptive monastic order. The sanctity of the extant. 

Because the approach to it is so gradual abd so gentle, one cannot see it change. But if one went away and came back yers later, the change would be visually apparent, or even startling.

Everything will be quieter and calmer.

Entirely within the purview of conceptual art.

COASTAL PLANNING

Folks,

I doubt that either of you will be stimulated by the following. I'm fairly clear where I want to go with it; find an approach to coastal planning that is fun and can pay me. But it's too unformed yet for people whose primary interest this is not. But I'm rushing it off to show progress on a plan. No need to respond. Please overlook typos.

ISSUES RELATED TO COASTAL PLANNING

- fingers in from the sea--roads inland

- access routes parallel to the sea: Jamaica is ringed by a coastal road, some of it recently turned into highway.

- fisheries

- hotels

- popular beaches

- watershed drainage down to the sea--rivers and creeks

- various uses of rivers and creeks--water wheels were once common.

- marine tourism

- round island small boat tourism

- walking tours

- roadside tourism

- food and restroom stops

- mangrove enabling==coastal geology

- marine sanctuaries and tourism

- coastal education

- floating piers

- immigration and smuggling related surveillance

- Fuel supply

- orderly vending--stalls, principles, ethics, merchandize transportation

- satellite mapping

- vewshed from harbors or ports

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/15185864.jpg

A view from the harbor that might be a close lookalike to the harbor view of St. Ann's Bay. Similar tower on a hill with outr clock tower. This view shows 

I know there are professionals who would produce sophisticated maps and charts, with many academic references. But since such a plan has not materials, except, somewhat for Falmouth, it could be that a more lay approach, costing a great deal less, and being much simpler, might not be as or more effective in getting planning action for harbor views. How does one organize drawing, models and notes of harbor views and get paid for it? And use art methodology for the approach. The Morandi link below is just a proxy for something that is better thought out. 

Georgio Morandi and the synthes caused by clever design. Use of overlap that reinforce or echo overlapped shapes hidden behind.

https://search.aol.com/aol/image?p=geordio+morandi+images&s_it=img-ans&v_t=webmail-hawaii1-basicaol&fr=webmail-hawaii1-basicaol&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.metmuseum.org%2F-%2Fmedia%2Fimages%2Fexhibitions%2Ftemporary%2Fgiorgiomorandi_109_534.JPG%3Fw%3D1200%26hash%3DD1222CCC2F280CC7AA9B5DFB013AAC7EBCF8B00E#id=24&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.metmuseum.org%2F-%2Fmedia%2Fimages%2Fexhibitions%2Ftemporary%2Fgiorgiomorandi_109_534.JPG%3Fw%3D1200%26hash%3DD1222CCC2F280CC7AA9B5DFB013AAC7EBCF8B00E&action=click

A PETITION AGAINST A CAPTIVE DOLPHIN FACILITY IN DISCOVERY BAY, JAMAICA Dear Readers, WHAT DOES THE CARIBBEAN HAVE A LOT OF? IT HAS A MONOPOLY OF COASTLINE ABUTTING THE VERY AMPLE CARIBBEAN SEA. IF WE CAN MANAGE OUR COASTS BETTER TO PROTECT FISHERIES AND WILD OCEAN LIFE, WE WILL BE A STRONGER, MORE RESPECTED PEOPLE. WHAT DOES CAPTIVITY DO TO DOLPHINS? Among the causes of death of cetaceans in captivity:.severe trauma, intestinal gangrene, acute hemorrhagic pneumonia, pulmonary abscession, chronic kidney disease, chronic cardiovascular failure, septicemia, influenza, necrosis of cerebrum. And so on. Few die of old age, and often the date of birth is unknown, anyway. WHAT WILL CAPTIVE DOLPHINS DO TO DISCOVERY BAY WHICH IS A FISH AND MARINE SANCTUARY? Scientific opinion is unanimous that nutrients from excreta in the limited circulation of the bay will do great harm to sea grass beds, coral reefs and fish. SAVE DISCOVERY BAY PETITION DRIVE SDB Petition is deceptive. It can seem like just another passing process that has no big picture Caribbean relevance. But that would not be (or entirely be) the case. It can be a driver of planning throughout the Caribbean TO HAVE A CARIBBEAN-WIDE MARINE SANCTUARY PROGRAM, PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTALLY PROGRESSIVE COASTAL GOVERNANCE FOR THE ENTIRE REGION. You can help greatly just by signing this one petition against a dolphinarium development in Discovery Bay, on Jamaica's famous north coast. It gives us a chance to BEGIN to protect (and project) our Caribbean interests, whether or not that was the original intention of the petition.     WE CAN BEGIN HERE TO INCREASE OUR COASTAL MANAGEMENT (and our international reputation).............  BY KINDLY SIGNING THIS PETITION https://www.change.org/p/ government-of-jamaica-please- withdraw-approval-of-dolphin- cove-for-discovery-bay- jamaica?recruiter=164249449& utm_source=share_petition&utm_ medium=facebook&utm_campaign= psf_combo_share_initial. pacific_abi_select_all_ contacts.select_all.pacific_ email_copy_en_gb_4.v1.pacific_ email_copy_en_us_3.control. pacific_post_sap_share_gmail_ abi.gmail_abi.pacific_email_ copy_en_us_5.v1.lightning_ share_by_medium_message. control.lightning_2primary_ share_options_more.control& utm_content=fht-13789879-en- gb%3Av5&fbclid= IwAR3USj83fb9vuktKubErBMANYSjd J_RVMMN_ YvLuyfzNf9rdmaJfo540zNw NOTE: - Our politicians are only empowered to turn back bad projects like dolphinaria if a great many citizens support them in doing so. This is why signing a simple petition like the above is such a BIG action to take. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND ASSISTANCE! Trevor Burrowes, in support of Save Discovery Bay, which is located in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica, that is of singular importance for the definition of enlightened Caribbean culture and civilization.

CARIBBEAN CULTURE VIBRATIONS

A PETITION AGAINST A CAPTIVE DOLPHIN FACILITY IN DISCOVERY BAY, JAMAICA

Dear Readers,

WHAT DOES THE CARIBBEAN HAVE A LOT OF?

IT HAS A MONOPOLY OF COASTLINE ABUTTING THE VERY AMPLE CARIBBEAN SEA.

IF WE CAN MANAGE OUR COASTS BETTER TO PROTECT FISHERIES AND WILD OCEAN LIFE, WE WILL BE A STRONGER, MORE RESPECTED PEOPLE.

THIS COMMUNICATION IS TOWARD EXPLAINING THE INTENTION BEHIND THE SAVE DISCOVERY BAY (SDB) PETITION TO PREVENT CONSTRUCTION OF A DOLPHIN CAPTIVE FACILITY

WHAT DOES CAPTIVITY DO TO DOLPHINS?

Among the causes of death of cetaceans in captivity:.severe trauma, intestinal gangrene, acute hemorrhagic pneumonia, pulmonary abscession, chronic kidney disease, chronic cardiovascular failure, septicemia, influenza, necrosis of cerebrum. And so on. Few die of old age, and often the date of birth is unknown, anyway

SAVE DISCOVERY BAY PETITION DRIVE

SDB Petition is deceptive. It can seem like just another passing process that has no big picture Caribbean relevance. But that would not be (or entirely be) the case. It can be a driver of planning throughout the Caribbean TO HAVE A CARIBBEAN-WIDE MARINE SANCTUARY PROGRAM, PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTALLY PROGRESSIVE COASTAL GOVERNANCE FOR THE ENTIRE REGION. You can help greatly just by signing this one petition against a dolphinarium development in Discovery Bay, on Jamaica's famous north coast. It gives us a chance to BEGIN to protect (and project) our Caribbean interests, whether or not that was the original intention of the petition.

 

 

WE CAN BEGIN HERE TO INCREASE OUR COASTAL MANAGEMENT (and our international reputation)............. 

BY KINDLY SIGNING THIS PETITION

https://www.change.org/p/ government-of-jamaica-please- withdraw-approval-of-dolphin- cove-for-discovery-bay- jamaica?recruiter=164249449& utm_source=share_petition&utm_ medium=facebook&utm_campaign= psf_combo_share_initial. pacific_abi_select_all_ contacts.select_all.pacific_ email_copy_en_gb_4.v1.pacific_ email_copy_en_us_3.control. pacific_post_sap_share_gmail_ abi.gmail_abi.pacific_email_ copy_en_us_5.v1.lightning_ share_by_medium_message. control.lightning_2primary_ share_options_more.control& utm_content=fht-13789879-en- gb%3Av5&fbclid= IwAR3USj83fb9vuktKubErBMANYSjd J_RVMMN_ YvLuyfzNf9rdmaJfo540zNw

NOTE:

- Our politicians are only empowered to turn back bad projects like dolphinaria if a great many citizens support them in doing so. This is why signing a simple petition like the above is such a BIG action to take.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND ASSISTANCE!

Trevor Burrowes, on behalf of Save Discovery Bay, which is located in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica, that is of singular importance for the definition of enlightened Caribbean culture and civilization.

DETERMINISM

It is mistakenly thought that the major issues of discrimination and oppression are merely driven by moral decisions. But I have been learning that they are largely driven by energy supply to drive production of convenience within a given lifestyles--in our times, cars, industrialized farms, roads, medicines, computers. I have come to no reasoned conclusion as to how much culture affects the way energy is used. Is it more like the chicken or more like the egg in determine the lifestyle and patterns of civilizations or cultures? We couldn't all be driven by the quantity of energy supply alone, could we? There might be a lot of food trees around, but if the population got too large, those food trees might not suffice, causing people to migrate elsewhere. But in some cases practices like infanticide or herbal contraceptives...or war...might have kept populations in balance with the available food from plants. Groups would have studied the plants to see how best to use them. Taboos would have been created to maintain various kinds of balance and stability. It surely is a complicated matter to determine whether lucky discoveries influenced ability to survive in  a given place. How much did varied geographies matter? Or unseasonable weather? Was it a certain individual proclivity that led to tracking weather cycles? So this is the question of how much determinism  matter (should be matters), as opposed to accident, happenstance, personal traits. I tend to believe that even if there are large deterministic patterns in human affairs, there are cultural ideas that can influence them--speed them up or slow them down. I would think that decisions made by groups or individuals matter too. What I write below is colored by this belief. And doesn't it matter how groups are placed or happen to fall within energy matrices, whether through determinism, happenstance or intention, how or whether they are oppressed?