Nice Work. Please Finish: Using Storytelling to Define Your Digital Identity
This post is featured on Brevity Blog. What does a half-finished second-grade homework assignment have in common with building an author website? More than you might think. In this reflective piece, Michelle Cutler traces her lifelong wrestling match with “incompletion” and how it shaped her approach to crafting a digital identity. What once felt like […]
This post is featured on Brevity Blog.
What does a half-finished second-grade homework assignment have in common with building an author website? More than you might think. In this reflective piece, Michelle Cutler traces her lifelong wrestling match with “incompletion” and how it shaped her approach to crafting a digital identity. What once felt like procrastination transformed into a deeper understanding of storytelling as the foundation for an engaging, discoverable online presence. By treating her website like a living narrative—where the Home Page sets the scene, the About Page reveals motivation, and calls-to-action act as chapter turns—she discovered that a site doesn’t need to be perfect to go live; it just needs to invite readers into the story. Her takeaway: completion is never final, and like any good draft, your digital identity is meant to evolve.
Your author platform rests on your public identity. Working on creating and defining your online self to capture readers’ attention and showcase your story? Join Michelle for her CRAFT TALKS seminar, The Right Words: Boost Your Author Platform with Storytelling, October 11 at 12PM Eastern ($50 Early Bird). Find out more/register now.
