Category Archives: T. Dench Patel’s Blogs

Writing a winning book proposal

Look, there are all sorts of publishers out there today, perhaps one day I will go into that. Vanity publishers don’t have strict guidelines for an author to come on board with their book. Let me let you consider something. Why? When many books can be published without strict guidelines and only friends and family will purchase them. Get me? So, you are their customer, that’s all (hey take this as my viewpoint if you may). Saying this, it depends on how one looks at it, it is an achievement to have something that one has worked hard on finally released. It boils down to expectations and the author’s goal.

Why write in active voice rather than passive

Active voice is just as important in business as it is in writing a novel, blog post, screenplay, short story, email or any piece of content, however, it does come down to the writer, author or poet because it depends on what they are trying to demonstrate in their piece of content. Active voice brings the point in clearly and responsibly and in business it takes head-on the responsibility i.e., owning it. Using passive voice in business language makes the apology, the solution, and the ownership look weak.

Tips for writing a screenplay

Screenplays are only dialogue based. There are a handful of screenplays that come out in a form of a book format for the public to purchase. With screenplays, dialogue would need to be mastered along with pacing the story using elements of a screenplay such as setting, climax, and plot, actually…

Types of poetry in literature

Hey, what do “Dead poets’ society” and a dead poet have in common? … Give up? They live unapologetically. Okay, this bad joke does actually belong to me. Let’s try another one. Have you ever seen what frustrated poets do to their students? … It’s truly horrifying! It’s like bringing back a dead Shakes peer.

Okay, before I get out of hand let’s take some lessons on the types of poetry in literature so that we can decorate them with some genius lyrics that could even help your songwriting.

Types of genres

If an author or writer has something in mind that they are looking to write about then the book, story or content will be classified in a genre according to the type of story it is. Before a writer or author starts having the comma break up with the apostrophe because it was too possessive, or if it sent the apostrophe to co-mma it would be good to decide whether the storyline falls under the genre of romance, drama, etc. which we will help you identify today.

Having trouble committing to your writing goals?

What is a challenge without overcoming it? What is talent if one never “beats” the demons of those phases? – The beauty of this is that one won’t ever know what they wanted if they didn’t want it through all the highs and lows. This is the “course” of self-mastery. T. Dench Patel, 18:08, 20 March 2022

It’s no longer a pitch, it’s a sales offer. How to write one?

For a long time in my life, I thought the feeling that people receive from the word “sales” has been damaged by “unethical selling,” I even tried to find various words to replace it but, sales is what it is, selling and then, when one no longer concerns themselves with selling and concerns themselves to serving, i.e., helping that’s when that person becomes an excellent salesman/saleswoman, yes, by replacing selling for “helping,” now that’s how one can change a customer’s life.

Elements of storytelling

Have you ever heard of Lord Byron? One of his most famous poems was Don Juan. It was said that Lord Byron was an alcoholic and that made me think. You know, I don’t know any poet who died of using drugs. Do you? I mean can you imagine what sort of romantic life they must have? Every time staying up before bed. Yes, imagine when their partner, girlfriend or friend with benefits call them to bed. I’m sure their answer is always the same; “Let me finish this one line.”
Alright, no more jokes I promise. Let’s head straight to the elements of storytelling. If you’ve been reading a lot of content about writing and storytelling then perhaps you’ve read some writers say there are 4 elements, …

The art of storytelling in business

The art of storytelling in business helps make the story of the business different, unique and even stand out from other businesses as time goes by. Depending on how transparent the business wishes to be or how unique it is the customer that goes through the journey with the business can either tell a negative story or a positive story as the customer has their journey so does the business.

Common literary devices

Hey, you want to know what’s the greatest book of all times? It’s The South African: True Colours okay, okay, I am just kidding, however, someone did tell me that my book, after reading the pdf copy was akin to one of the greatest books of all times. Want to guess which book that is?

Would you like a clue?

What do you get when you mix alcohol with literature?

No, you gave up already! Try one more guess…

Tequila Mockingbird