Rebecca A. Emrich's Blog, page 13
April 5, 2015
Tech Review: Sphero 2.0
Technology is a wonderful thing for writers. I spend a lot of time working with tech products, and they help me in many ways. I look for ways to improve our writing lives, andn my last post I talked about Mechanical Keyboards.The post before that, Speech to Text Apps.These are a great part of the writing life. Life shouldn't be all about work, so rather than talk about tools 
April 4, 2015
Book Review: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
As I state in my first blog post, I have a messy desk. But the mess doesn't stop there. I am a busy mom ofthree and I want to learn to clean my house more efficiently. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo is a New York Times best seller and it boats that all her clients that have tried her method have never reverted back to their messy ways. This sounds perfect. 
April 2, 2015
Publishing, SEO, and Blogs
Writers, myself included, want to be recognized for their hard work they do. They want to have books published, and their names in print, and they want to have that now. the blog cloud It's great most people want the 'now' in their lives, but I've personally been around the blogging world long enough to understand that this isn't a case of overnight success. I'm sure most writers have 
Book Review: Ru by Kim Thuy
When I heard that the winner of the 2015 Canada Read contest was Ru: A Novel by Kim Thuy I was a little shocked. The buzz around the literary world was that Thomas King's The Inconvenient Indian was being touted as the strongest book. But I have to agree with the book that was chosen. Mr. King you wrote an exceptional book of Non-Fiction. Just thespell bindingway Ru was 
March 31, 2015
Quality Alert? Writers and The Internet
A writer must consider quality content above all else. It's a great statement when you first glance at it. It is one of these 'think positive' type of messages we all love to hear or read about. I agree with the statement, in the surface style it is given, but I don't agree writers must consider quality content above all else. It's a very subjective thing 'quality' what I might feel is 
March 30, 2015
Tech Review: Mechanical Keyboards
Why on Earth would anyone pay $200 for a computer keyboard?! My last blog post (which was actually my first ever post on a website) talked about speech to text Apps that would save you the trouble of typing. They had their benefits but also some drawbacks. For those that actually prefer to type, here's a comparison between two different types of keyboards. There was a time when computer 
Book Review: Enchanted Forest: An Inky Quest & Coloring Book by Johanna Basford
Growing up I loved to color.We had video games and a television but I grew up in a time when only about an hour of screen time was the average for the day. No Internet, iPads or cell phones. My younger cousins call it the dark ages. It was one hobby that I had that we could always afford. When you grow up in government housing, getting a hamper from the food bank to have Christmas 
March 28, 2015
Book Review: On Immunity by Eula Biss
I want you to think about a time when you had a really bad headache. A headache so bad that you couldn’t get out of bed and you truly felt that your head was going to explode. Now take that headache and put the pressure on the inside of your skull in the lining of your brain. That it is swollen and pushing out against your skull. That any minute you feel like your head is going 
March 27, 2015
Writing Advice Worth Its Weight in Gold
Writers get a lot of writing advice. Some of it is truly powerful and useful, and some of it is not. One of the most important things about advice is seeing where it is coming from. It is about knowing what this person wants from you to give you this advice. Good advice is worth its weight in gold, and bad advice can destroy a writing career before it gets off the ground. What sort of 
March 26, 2015
Book Review: AsapScience by Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown
What did I get myself into? I started reading AsapScience; Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors andUnexplained Phenomena by Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown. I thought that this was going to be another book like What If? by Randall Munroe. It was and it wasn’t. It was like What If? because it explained weird science questions with humor and 
