Editorial Services « Miller Consulting

Writing is 3/4 of the Game Today

The Vision Forum’s No-Hate event was featured in The Dallas Morning New’s NeighborsGo section. If you want a feature, you’d better be able to write it!

Client Receives $25,000 grant from Hillcrest Foundation

Reading & Radio Resource recently received a $25,000 grant from the Hillcrest Foundation in support of Reading’s Vision 2050 Campaign. Vision 2050, a $500,000 campaign, addresses infrastructure, technology, and program excellence needs. The Vision 2050 Case Statement and proposals are written by Donna Miller of Miller Consulting.

Sunday School Isn't What It Used to Be

My many years of torturously boring Sunday School lessons made this story a joy to write, “Sunday School Isn’t What It Used to Be” on NeighborsGo.com, www.neighborsgo.com/index.php?page_id=1000&site_page_id=5&post_id=70628

Thinking with Words

My son’s teacher recently told me that my son’s ability to “think with words” was outstanding. My knee-jerk immediate thought was “How else would one think but with words?” But there are several ways to think – spatially like engineers and architects, visually like painters, aurally like musicians, emotionally like most of [...]

Martin Luther, The Reformation & Other Everyday Things

It’s not every day I have the chance to write about Martin Luther, The Reformation, and the organ building tradition in Northern Germany! Writing this story about The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration’s new organ was a treat.

Writing the editorial

Writing editorials and opinion columns requires several skills at once – the ability to write succinctly, maybe even entertainingly, tightly structured, and in the voice of your client. This leads us to perhaps the most important skill after basic writing skills, being a careful and intuitive listener.

Feature Writing

Feature writing offers a chance to more fully explore an issue and to tell a compelling a story. It’s also a chance to bore the reader after the first page if attention is not paid to story arc.

The CliffDweller Magazine article on the Rosemont Elementary School’s arts program was a work of love [...]

Interviewing and Article Writing

Newsletters can help cement team spirit within a company, an organization, or among its constituents, but only if the newsletter communicates news people want to read. People want to read interesting stories about other people. Interviewing and writing these stories is time-consuming and often gets shunted aside for more generic content. Big [...]