I absolutely loved this story. Especially the serendipity / synchronicity / coincidences. As you submitted to Synergy, this provides the perfect opportunity for me to engage with this story and whoever may read it and this response, meaningfully. I have a niche pub called ChannSpirations and Coincidences. I plan on writing a feature story on the fact that I read stories every day that owe their genesis to synchronicities that are not necessarily the main point of the story. From both a writing tip and a content marketing perspective, innumerable stories can have new or additional life breathed into them by the penning of a piece that discusses the birthing of the story. I recently penned such a piece here in Synergy.
The author of the curated piece that Alexander Bird and I co-created with him as writer/mentee and me as editor/mentor, then penned, at my suggestion, this piece for C&C.
Alex's piece in C&C, to his credit, not mine, has performed very well, generating similar earning for him as our curated piece. This has lead Alex to question the monetary value of curation, as I discussed here:
I look forward to readers’ and writers’ meaningful engagement with this response.
In Rama I create,
Marcus
