02
Jul
Tag Archives: Inspiration
Inspiration: The Recharging Station that Fills You with Energy and Willpower.
25
Jun
Friday Links: The Life-Cycle of a Book (How to Make $$$ Writing)
You’re creating content that will sell for the rest of your life.
Not for a week, not for a month, not for a year, not even for a decade.
Your whole life, this stuff’s going to be selling, and you’ve got cycles when you can bring these series back so you’ll always be able to make money. Read More
11
Jun
Friday Links: The Eternal Show vs Tell-Debate
‘Telling the reader’ means giving the reader the conclusion they would draw, without giving them any of the actions or thoughts or descriptions that would lead them to that conclusion.
Yeah, Patricia C Wrede knows how it is. And should be writing writing books for a living. In addition to her fantasy, of course. But, failing that, we’ve got her blog to turn to. Read More
07
May
Friday Links: How to Become a Professional Burglar
Are you safe?
Is your home, your workplace, your Friendly Neighborhood Military Installation safe?
Likely not. Read More
26
Apr
You’re Not Egoistic Enough – Breaking the Self-Care Wall of Shame
Egoism. It’s a bad word.
Unfortunately.
Egoism should be neutral. Like any tool, it can be good or bad.
Yes, you can be a self-absorbed, egocentric (note: egocentric isn’t always a bad thing either), self-absorbed, pompous mutt (those are bad words).
But in our society, we live with the strange duality that we’re too egoistic and at the same time, not egoistic enough.
Let me explain. Read More
26
Mar
Friday Links * 2: The Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse
When reality beats movies. Old geezers, World War II, spies, everything you need from a good story, and then Lindybeige, the master of WWII storytelling, to make a good story great. Be warned, it’s 1,5 hours long, but there are pictures.
The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse – how middle-aged amateurs defeated the German navy Read More
01
Mar
How do you write?
How do you write? Not now and then. Not because someone forces you to. How do you write, as often, and as productively, as you would like?
Fun, plain and simple.
Removing the “must” part from “I must write,” turning it into a simple “I write.”
For me, fun is what made that happen. No pressure, no self-recrimination, no “the world should be this way, and I should be that way with it.” Just plain fun. Read More
22
Jan
Friday Links: The True Scale of the Universe
If you lock the scale to the point where the Earth is a tennis ball, how large would the sun be? Well, about the width of a city street. But the sun, even though it’s larger than 80% of all stars in the universe, is actually quite small. How small? Watch and see. Read More
08
Jan
Friday Links: How Not To Run a YouTube Channel
The power of persistence. Youtuber Eastory tries to start a war/history youtube channel. And fails. And fails again. And fails some more. And sinks a thousand hours into creating content before the channel subscriptions virtually explode. Pure inspiration. Read More
04
Jan
How I write this blog
I thought this might be a fun thing to do, to let you see exactly the process I use to write my blog.
Right now I’m walking outside, it’s about 10 degrees Celsius. There are nice weather, a little bit wet since it’s in the fall.
And I’m dictating this into my Voyager into my Plantronics Voyager 3200 headset.
Did you notice what just happened there? I said Voyager twice, because I missed a word. I’m not going to correct this in editing. All I’m going to do is clean up the punctuation and any spelling errors.
Everything else remains. So your
Everything else remains. So what you see here is the exact transcript of the exact words that I use. Read More