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Published on January 23, 2018 04:45

5 Ways to Make Your Writing is More Descriptive

�� Use sensory details rather than internalized ones
�� Mimic sounds to appeal to sense of hearing
�� Improve descriptions by appealing to 'touch'
�� Appeal to sense of taste in descriptions
�� Add color to your fiction manuscript
�� BONUS: ��There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.��

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Published on January 22, 2018 04:45

5 Great Humorous Thoughts on Writing

��I��m writing a book. I��ve got the page numbers done.�� - Steven Wright

��Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.�� - Franz Kafka

��The funny thing about writing is that whether you��re doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same.�� - John Green

��In a weak moment, I have written a book.�� - Margaret Mitchell

��Writers will happen in the best of families.�� - Rita Mae Brown

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

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Published on January 21, 2018 05:25

5 Tips for Finding Motivation to Write

�� Writing �� Talent or Hard Work?
�� Learn from past success
�� My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty
�� Do what unsuccessful writers won��t do
�� What jogging can teach you about a writing habit
�� BONUS: ��...the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it��s about, but the inner music the words make.�� Truman Capote

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

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Published on January 20, 2018 05:12

Brainstorm ideas for your YouTube video

The first step for authors to determine what will be the specific content for their YouTube video begins with brainstorming ideas. You want to have a bevy of ideas from which to draw upon and to keep the momentum going with a follow-up vid.

You can come up with video ideas just by spending 10 minutes listing every idea that pops into your head. That probably will get you a couple of really good ideas and keep you going for a few weeks. But what do you do then? Or what if most of the ideas you��ve come up just aren��t very good?

Either way, you��ll need to do some more brainstorming.

Don��t go back to another 10 minutes of listing ideas, though. That likely will be unproductive. Instead, you can employ any of several other brainstorming techniques:

Mind mapping
Write a keyword describing your topic at the center of a whiteboard or a piece of paper. Then write subcategories that branch off the keyword as well as categories branching off each subcategory. If writing about astronomy, for example, Astronomy is the keyword. Stars, planets and asteroids might be subcategories branching off it. Rocky worlds and gas giants could be subcategories for planets.

Ask questions
Use the 5 W��s and 1 H to come up with as many questions as you can about your topic. If you write about financial planning, you could ask: What is financial planning? Why should I plan my finances? When should I begin planning my finances? How do I plan my finances? All of these could be a video posting.

Connect the dots
Think of the problem as trying to get from where you are (Point A) to where you want to be (Point Z). For example, if putting together videos about kayaking, list all the steps you would need to take from the beginning of a trip (Point A) to the end of the day (Point Z). Ask yourself what are all of the steps you need to take throughout the trip: loading the kayak on the truck roof; how to paddle the kayak; how to portage, etc. All of these steps are ideas for videos.

New attribute
Think of yourself in different ways. For example, what if you weighed 10 pounds more or 10 pounds less? What if you were a different ethnic group or race? How would any of these change your view or perspective about what you might write? For example, if you live in a city and are making videos about jogging, imagine you live in a small town. How would this change the way you jogged? Would you jog on country roads with no sidewalks? How can that be done safely? You now have a new video idea.

Role playing
Ask what kinds of videos others would make. Don��t think in terms of other YouTubers but celebrities, role models, or family members. Your goal is to see the problem from a fresh perspective. If you make videos about canoeing, certainly Barack Obama would have a different response than Donald Trump. You now have two video ideas: philosophically recognizing the beauty of the pristine land while on a canoe trip and land development��s effect on canoeing waterways.

Time travel
Pretend that you live in a different time period. How would that shape the way you think about a topic? If you write about snowshoeing, for example, in the 1800s people used wood rather than aluminum snowshoes. Wood snowshoes are still worn, however, so a video might discuss their merits or how they are made.

Medici Effect
When people with two different backgrounds get together, often new ideas are unleashed as they find parallels in their interests. You can do the same. If you write about basketball, for example, talk with a mathematician. You might discover that geometry can be used to indicate where the ball will go if it hits the backboard but not go through the hoop. That could be video on how to get more rebounds.

Two heads are better than one
If still stymied, get together with others who know a lot about your topic and try to come up with a list of ideas. You��ll be amazed at the great ideas they come up with. This is a good approach for those authors who work solo.

Once you write a list, select the topic you think is best for your first video. You��re then ready to move on to your next step: outlining your video presentation.

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Published on January 19, 2018 04:45

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Published on January 18, 2018 04:45

Once all is said and done: Afterward/Afterwards

Great news: You can��t get this one wrong. Either version of the word is correct.

Both are used across the English-speaking world, though in the United States and Canada, afterward is slightly more preferred while in the United Kingdom, Australia and elsewhere afterwards is used liked a bit more.

Because of this, some American language teachers tend to view afterwards as more formal �� as the United States generally considers the Queen��s English more formal sounding �� and recommend afterwards be used in academic or official works.

As a side note, afterward has a different meaning than afterword. The latter is an epilogue; you can remember the difference because ��word�� is used when referring to a part of a written book.

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Published on January 17, 2018 04:30

5 Great Science Fiction Novum Writing Prompts

Science fiction stories typically arise from a novum, a scientifically plausible concept that is a ��reality�� in the tale. The novum might be an mechanical device like robot servants, artificial intelligence, or faster-than-light spacecraft; it also can be a hypothetical idea such as ��The Earth is a scientific experiment run by aliens to determine the meaning of life�� or ��The government outlaws books.�� The author then asks ��What if?�� exploring how the world with this novum is different than ours.

Among the problems of many novice science fiction writers is instead of introducing a new novum they rely on used furniture �� that is, they borrow novums from popular SF series. After all, how many novels have you read that use starships exploring the galaxy for the Earth-based Federation? Barely changing names to appear as if you are not appropriating �� a starcraft seeking M-class worlds for the Earth-centered Alliance �� still doesn��t cut it as original or fully using the potential that science fiction offers to examine our culture or humanity.

To help SF writers, here are some novums of potential near-future inventions from which stories could be built:

Artificial flesh
Rather than eat meat from actual animals, what if it was ��grown�� in large cell cultures at factories? Will this increase consumption of meat or further decrease its intake over the years?

Canada, Global Superpower
What if climate change leads to massive migration northward, propelling Canada with its borders on three oceans and free trade with the United States, to global superpower status by 2100? How does this alter the world geopolitical situation?

Infrasynthesis
What if devices could capture infrared radiation, which then converts carbon dioxide in our atmosphere into graphite, as part of an effort to fight global warming? How does the invention and possession of such devices shift the geopolitical balance?

Ocean wind farms
What if Western Europe and several other island and coastal countries receive the majority of their electrical power from wind turbines placed in offshore in the various seas or oceans near their borders? What affect does this have on the ecosystem and how does it make these countries vulnerable to attack?

Printed food
What if kitchens were equipped with a 3D printer that could make food like bread, pretzels or even pizzas? How does this alter people��s diets and health (�� la the microwave oven of the 1970s)?

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Published on January 16, 2018 04:45

Client publishes book about his battle with PTSD

A recent editing client has published a book about his personal struggles with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Timothy O��Neil��s ��PTSD, God and Me�� charts how after he was robbed at gunpoint while working at a bank, he found that several activating events strangely caused him to panic, often to the detriment of his family and career. Hoping ot help others understand this disorder, he describes his life experiences, background, career, depression, anxiety and fight to get back to a sense of ��normal,�� Most of all, this journey helped Tim find strength through his faith.

��PTSD, God and Me�� is available online as ebook.

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Published on January 15, 2018 04:45

Client publishes hillbilly story collection

A recent editing client has published his second book, a collection of humorous stories.

��Everybody Has Got a Groove,�� by Richard E. Cole, tells the tale of Dickie Ray and Julius James Geezer, two redneck friends who spend their days playing pool, chasing girls, and shooting rats. Then comes the night at the garbage dump when a giant alien rat speaking like a city slicker tells them to knock it off. Frightened by the experience, Julius changes, leaving Dickie Ray to wonder if his pal will ever get his groove back.

Also included in this collection are the shorts ��Possum at the Wheel�� and ��Hillbilly Elmer Lee.�� The book is available online as an ebook.

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