Not those panicked 40-pages-boiled-down-to-a-sentence generalizations so popular with first-time synopsizers everywhere, but not even trying to replicate the narrative complexity of the book in a space that sca
Most marketing plans are done on a quarterly or yearly basis. An annual marketing plan, in particular, gives you enough time to act on the things you’ve planned, but enough time to pivot your plan based on factors like algorithm changes, a shift in business direction, and new product lau...
I don’t know. But I do know that while that was a long, and I’m sure a seemingly endless season of darkness, after twenty-one years James wasn’t electrocuted, which is what his sentence called for initially. At some point, when the government...
Not rewriting the same sentence 10 times just because it “doesn’t read quite right.” 😅 I know, I know. It’s easier said than done. Still, try to minimize interruptions. There’s time to edit for perfection later—this stage is all about getting everything down on paper (or scre...
Although there’s no true consensus on thisvis-à-visGoogle, it’s also good to keep in mind that Google’s dominance is slowly waning. It’s still the dominant search engine, but these daysmore people are relying on alternativesas well – and we have no idea how meta descriptions are ...
Stephen Graham Jones has ten novels and more than a hundred and thirty short stories published, and has been teaching fiction for twelve years. 2012 will see at least two more novels from him, then at least one in 2013 and one in 2014, he says, "should the world not have ended by th...
Keep a log of the poems—name of poem and poet—and write a sentence that will help you recall how you feel from the poem. Keep a pen/pencil and paper with you at all times to write things down (“it will not stay in your head”). ≡≡≡ In claiming this emotional space every...
He did not care to press the space bar on the keyboard at the end of any sentence. If he had read the text, he might have changed IPAP into IPad. In the next sentence, he reproduces a musical refrain usually found in kids’ movies, which is ‘Done, done, done’. He has ...
As soon as I complete the printed sentence, he begins drawing on top of his photo again. 28. Reegan: Reegan turns from the table and calls across the room to his friends. “Look! Look! Da Reegan! Everybody know Reegan!” He sits back with satisfaction and begins to make more marks ...
From fine motor skills to the complexities of vocabulary and sentence structure, it takes years for children to fully hone their writing technique. And while all children develop at their own speed, education experts say that writing milestones can be expected based on a child’s age. ...