[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Melanie Faith
Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
The Society of Professional Journalists
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Maxine Greene
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Make A Project Timeline
A final exercise in Seth Godin’s Course is to make a project timeline.
A few reflections about the course before I share my timeline:
- Explore Your Voice.
- Build From What Makes You Unique.
- Share. Share. Share.
- Pay Attention To What Works For Others and Tailor It To Your Strategy.
- Cause a Ruckus.
Wide-Awakeness Timeline:
3rd Quarter 2016:
- Establish blog, facebook writer page friend, twitter follower baseline
- Post 3 posts/week
- Build blog readership to 600 unique page views/month
- Comment on and share 3 blog posts of interest/week
- Have 5 guest blogs posted
- Create and send 2 monthly newsletters
4th Quarter 2016:
- Increase subscriber, follower and friend base by 15%
- Create and send 3 monthly newsletters
- Comment on and share 3 blog posts of interest/week
- Post 3 posts/week
- Build blog readership to 1000 unique page views/month
- Have 5 guest blogs posted
1st Quarter 2017:
- Increase subscriber, follower, and friend base by 15%
- Create and send 3 monthly newsletters
- Comment on and share 3 blog posts of interest/week
- Post 3 posts/week
- Build blog readership to 1200 unique page views/month
- Have 5 guest blogs posted
2nd Quarter 2017:
- Increase subscriber, follower, and friend base by 15%
- Create and send 3 monthly newsletters
- Comment on and share 3 blog posts of interest/week
- Post 3 posts/week
- Build blog readership to 1400 unique page views/month
- Have 5 guest blogs posted
3rd Quarter 2017:
- Increase subscriber, follower, and friend base by 15%
- Create and send 3 monthly newsletters
- Comment on and share 3 blog posts of interest/week
- Post 3 posts/week
- Build blog readership to 1400 unique page views/month
- Have 5 guest blogs posted
4th Quarter 2017:
- Increase subscriber, follower. and friend base by 15%
- Create and send 3 monthly newsletters
- Comment on and share 3 blog posts of interest/week
- Post 3 posts/week
- Build blog readership to 1500 unique page views/month
- Have 5 guest blogs posted
Godin’ s Reading List: Guerrilla Marketing, by Jay Levinson; Secrets of Closing the Sale, by Zig Ziglar; Tribes, by Seth Godin; All Marketers are Liars, also by Seth; Free Agent Nation, by Dan Pink; Ignore Everybody, by Hugh Macleod; Escape from Cubicle Nation, by Pam Slim.
About Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
