I know most of you reading this blog have the eventual goal of becoming professional authors who work full-time doing what they love. One thing that vexes me about our industry is everyone is afraid to talk about money, but money makes the world go round. It’s almost as if it’s dir...
Finding your flow might take some experimentation with different methods until you find what resonates with you. Don’t be afraid to try out various techniques and see what gets your creativity sparking and fingers flying across the keyboard! .. Again….. Not quite the help I wanted. (They ...
or if I can’t think of the right one to use. However, it’s old and doesn’t reflect modern speech. If I want the language to beau courant, I google the word, or the idea I want to express, and addsynonym. The results help me decide whether to stick with my original word, ch...
It's a string of thoughts that I find hard to condense down into something simpler, I'm afraid. raavenb2619 Member 60 Orientation: Aro Gender: Non-binary Pronouns: They/them Posted June 12, 2019 Maybe retitle it (again) to "What can we do in addition to making new words?" ...
Sometimes you might want to refuse it, saying “I don’t know what’s in there,” or “I can’t think of anything,” but try not to be afraid. Remember that you don’t make the gift. Imagination is not ourselves. The gift comes from the Place. All you have to do is accept it...
I’m afraid of tyranny. I fear that America is slipping and sliding into an autocratic takeover of our government. It’s happening right here, right now, before our very eyes. Many of our wisest leaders say that we’ve reached the “red zone” danger level. ...
First, we must recognize the term“venerate” as a synonym forworship.Accordingly,theDivine Mercymessage is saying to worship Jesus through that image.Could this Divine Mercy message parallel God’s truth – the truth that is written in the Bible or does such a message constitute a serious and...
Jokes that take place in a plane, are about people working on planes or are about flying. Sort ByNew Before We Die A beautiful woman is sitting next to a teenage boy on a plane. There is terrible turbulence and then the plane goes into a sudden nose dive. The Captain comes on the ...
Instead, we’ve all succumbed to the agreed-upon fiction (or fact, in some cases) that it is okay to ask for a doggie bag in a restaurant in order to transport home the leftovers as long as they are destined for a pet. In fact, this fiction is too prevalent in our society; thefr...
they have also made these womenafraid for their lives. They use techniques like doxxing and death threats on popular targets–like Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn–not only to intimidate those women in particular but also to send a message to the rest of us. A message that tells us in no ...