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…
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. I’m not a…
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…
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…
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…
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 and Unexplained Phenomena by Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown. I thought that this was going to be another book like What If?…
Did I Just Say Self Publish My Book?
Self-Publishing your book and Traditionally publishing your book seems to be a great divide in the writing world. If you mention the words “self-publishing” to say ten or fifteen aspiring authors and there will never be an answer that…
Book Review: Creativity, Inc. Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
I have read many business books in my years studying Advertising and Communications when I was in college. They were all the same. If you have trouble falling asleep, grab a business book. They knock you right out. Why is…