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How to End Writing Interruptions

by John Soares Source link Whenever something interrupts you from your writing, your concentration is broken and you lose time as your mind tries to recover that productive state you were in. And, of course, you also lose time dealing with whatever distracted you. Good time management is a top priority here at Productive Writers,s

I Don’t Write Content, I (Still) Write Articles – a Rant

by Anne Wayman Source link “Be Part of the First Industry Survey About Original Research In Content Marketing!” I saw this headline as I got up from my computer to take out the recycling. (Now you know why I say ideas are everywhere!) As I found my shoes, gathered up the recycling basket and ans

6 Resume Tweaks for Executive-Level Jobseekers

by Grammar Chic, Inc. Source link The job search is anything but standard; the way one person finds his or her dream job—or simply ascends the next step on the corporate ladder—may not be the method that works for you. Certainly, when you reach the C-suite, there are things you should do to distinguish yourself,s

9 Things I Wish I Knew About Writing My First Cookbook

by diannejacob Source link A guest post by Cameron Stauch When I started writing my first cookbook, Vegetarian Việt Nam, and friends asked what’s involved, I gave them a blank stare. If they had asked me to prepare a meal for a couple hundred people, I’d say, “Easy. When and where?” I’m a professional chef, ands

Vonnegut’s 8 Rules for the Short Story

by JW Source link 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.s

How to Critique Other Writers’ Work

by Melissa Donovan Source link How to critique other writers’ work. As a writer, it helps to be thick-skinned. Professional writing is a highly competitive and saturated field in which criticism is omnipresent for two important reasons: 1) It’s the most efficient way for writers to improve their skills, and 2) Written work is oftens

10 Writing Tips from Ursula Le Guin

by Joe Bunting Source link Last week, we lost an incredible novelist. Ursula Le Guin passed away at age 88 in her Portland home. Photo by Marian Wood Kolisch, modified by The Write Practice I’ve been reading Ursula Le Guin for a long time, since I first discovered The Earthsea Cycle, which reinvigorated my love fors

Tate Publishing & Enterprises Slapped with $1.7 Million Lawsuit, Department of Labor Investigation

by noreply@blogger.com (Victoria Strauss) Source link Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware NEWS FLASH: on May 4, 2017, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter filed eight felony charges and one misdemeanor charge (apiece) against Ryan and Richard Tate for alleged fraudulent business practices. For details, see my post: The Law Finally Catches Up With Tates

How to Schedule Time for an Imaginative Process, Rather Than an Exact Task

by Stefanie Flaxman Source link I’m pretty happy with my current writing process. Once you’ve accepted that you don’t need to convince anyone that your creative job is actually work, you’re free to focus on optimizing the processes that allow you to produce creativity on demand. And that’s exactly what I’m up to right nows

An Interview with Mario Kfoury: Author of Coffee Shop University

by SPR Source link Mario Kfoury is a private investor with credentials in martial arts, physical education, real estate, aviation and Technical Analysis. Self-taught in the streets of Beirut, Brussels, London, LA and New York, he synthesizes his views on life through different disciplinary and cultural prisms in favor of a peaceful/secular agnostic Deism.…