Roy Miller's Blog, page 58
February 20, 2018
Why Informative Content Will Make You Think Content Marketing Doesn’t Work
by Stefanie Flaxman Source link You might want to take an extra sip of coffee before you read the next paragraph … We’re going to start with a brief geometry lesson today, but I promise it will be gentle.
Leaderology by Jeff Rawlins
by Barbara Scott Source link Author and business consultant Jeff Rawlins explores how leadership and teamwork go together in Leaderology: How to Crush Mediocrity For Once and For All. Rawlins stresses the inner development of the leader as more than purely pragmatic: instead of always trying to be better and faster, he believes, leaders shoulds
Writing Chapter 2: Developing your opening hook
by Jordan Source link The opening chapter of a book needs to hook your reader. How? By creating intrigue, suspense, lovable (or at least compelling) characters and interesting setting or action. Writing chapter one is a challenge, yet for many authors writing chapter two is the stumbling block – how can you develop further? Heres
Flog a BookBubber 128: L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain
by Ray Rhamey Source link Writers, send your prologue/first chapter to FtQ for a “flogging” critique. Email as an attachment. Many of the folks who utilize BookBub are self-published, and because we hear over and over the need for self-published authors to have their work edited, it’s educational to take a hard look at theirs
Balancing Work and School: How to Study and Work Like a Boss
by Yassir Sahnoun Source link I get it. You started your freelance business because you wanted to be different. Unlike your friends, you want more freedom and fewer limitations. This is in your DNA. But… As the time goes by, you realize that balancing work and school is increasingly difficult. If that’s you, you’ve comes
February 19, 2018
Macro Monday Soon Heads West, Young Man
by terribleminds Source link We had a very nice snow this weekend, in that it dropped six inches on the ground, two on paved surfaces, was good for snowballs and snowmen, and hot chocolate and sledding, and then the day got warm and a lot of it went away. I took a shot of as
STEM, Scientism, and the Decline of the Humanities – my latest on Splice Today
by Michael Davis Source link Read it here: https://www.splicetoday.com/on-campus... Advertisements
Be a Good Steward of Your Gifts
by JW Source link Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours. JANE KENYON
37 Questions to Ask Your Character
by Pamela Hodges Source link Pretend you are an interviewer for a newspaper, a secret agent, or a novelist, and you are interviewing, or interrogating, a character for your story. Imagine the character is sitting in front of you, you have a new fifty-sheet yellow writing pad and your favorite pencil your cat chewed, and yous
February 18, 2018
Featured Indie Book: Rise and Run (RJ Plant)
by Alan Kealey Source link Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Science-Fiction / Thriller Rise and Run by RJ Plant. Rise and Run is a Broken Man novel. It’s fun (dark at times), action packed, but it’s also…
