Posts Tagged ‘Meg Houston Maker’

Light On Lytton!

August 30, 2010

For this week’s issue of our Light on Lytton series, we’re quite literally going to show you … the Light at Lytton!

The following is a picture that was taken by Jamie Bakas, who happens to be married to Rick Bakas, who happens to be the social media heavyweight at St. Supery; both were at Lytton Springs Saturday night for our TasteLive/TweetUp,  and she snapped it in between sips of our new Fall Release zinfandels. If you follow her tweets (and you should! @jaimiebakas), you’ll see that while she seemed to love the new 2008 Pagani Ranch best, she was in her “happy place” when she tasted the 2007 Monte Bello, a little unannounced treat that Sandy pulled out!

If you’d like to see what others had to say about the tasting, just use your favorite Twitter ap — I prefer TweetDeck – and search #ridgewines, and you’ll see a great stream of thoughts and observations by Rick and Jamie, Meg Houston Maker (makerstable.com), Lenn Thompson (lenndevours.com/newyorkcorkreport.com), Carrie Becker (thechicagoist.com), Amy Cleary (winebookgirl.com), and more!

Anyhow, now for a little Light on Lytton:

(c) jamie bakas

Update on Meg Houston Maker’s 24 Theses …

July 4, 2010

In one of my posts from the Wine Bloggers Conference, I noted some impeccably spot-on bits of writing advice from Meg Houston Maker, who is someone well qualified to be speaking on such a topic, and who gave a wonderful presentation at the conference. I am happy to let you know that she has posted the full text of her talk on her website. I encourage you to have a look; her 24 Theses can be found here.

#WBC 10, Some Words Of Writing Wisdom From Meg Houston Maker …

June 27, 2010

Delivered in a panel today, some rather fine words of wisdom as regards writing, from Meg Houston Maker:

Writing is thinking, and thinking is hard

Assume limitless intelligence in your reader, but no prior knowledge.

Tell a story that nobody else can tell.

Ask yourself questions, and pose questions to your reader.

If you write on behalf of a business, remember that organizations don’t talk, people talk.

Get to the point, and condense your prose.

The stronger your position, the more sober your prose.

Exclamation points should be reserved for exclamatory remarks.

If you don’t know something, you may need to find out.

Put everything about a subject in one place, and texture your prose.

Generate questions in your reader’s mind. If you can keep your reader asking why, they’ll keep reading.

If you’re doing things right, your voice will evolve.

Learn to work with an editor, because a good editor is on your side.

You need a good ending, but not a clever ending, and don’t try and trick your reader, because they’ll never forgive you.

“One of the most unique and beautiful of acts, you will have penetrated another person’s mind. (On what it is you’ve done when you’ve created great writing …)


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