Harry Dry is the mind behind Copywriting Examples, a brilliant resource and newsletter for ad writers, marketers and creatives. Dry takes his own medicine by writing succinct, compelling copy you actually want to read. He also happens to use mymind for collecting inspiration and references for his work. Here he kindly shares a glimpse inside.
What’s the best compliment you received recently?
“No one knew what you were going to say next.” - Andy, an attendee at a talk I did.
What’s the last thing you read?
"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Best metaphors and similes you will ever read – and you won’t notice you read them!
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What do you want to read next?
I’m staring at "A Farewell to Arms" as I write this, so maybe that.
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A quote that’s meaningful to you?
"I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge." – Henry Miller
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Best gift you’ve ever given?
An interview with my Grandpa (who has since died) for my Dad.
Where do you want to travel to next?
I don’t know.
What would you buy, if money weren’t an issue?
A better mattress. Actually, no, if money is no object I’d like a country house in some part of England I’ve never heard of.
What hobby would you take up, if you had the time?
What’s an image or piece of art you can’t get out of your head?
Less the image, more the album (and the story behind it)!
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A product of any kind you’ve been appreciating lately?
Can I say Copywriting Examples?! I know, I made it. But I use it every week and I’m proud of it. One hundred new examples in mymind ready to add. Godspeed!
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The funniest thing you’ve seen or heard lately?
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If you could build an extension of your own mind, what would it look like? How would it work?
I’m sure technology will march on and in another hundred years you can just think and poof – that new song ends up in some digital folder. But I really can’t be bothered with that. My mind is my mind. It doesn’t need “an extension." Pen and paper is fine. And for internet stuff, mymind is pretty good. ⚘
