Build tiny habits.Fifty words per day is amucheasier starting point than 500. You’ll soon overshoot the easier goal. That’s what behavioral scientist BJ Fogg argues the efficacy of inTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything(2019). Stack habits to what you do by default.We’...
I'm 32, and I'm getting my second degree. As I have a baby, I can't deal with my homework and need guidance to catch up. I thought about sites that write essays for you. They skimp a considerable amount of time. I don't have to worry about dealing with academic assignments and...
towritea novel/a song/an essay/a computer program, etc. 写小说、写歌、写散文、编电脑程序等 牛津词典 He hopes towritea book about his experiences one day. 他希望有一天写一部关于自己经历的书。 牛津词典 She had towritea report on the project. ...
A short story is a short, self-contained work of fiction that generally falls between 1,000 and 10,000 words. Because of this length constraint, short stories tend to be less complex than longer works—in certain ways. In a short story, you can build a world, but not to the extent...
(A book, by the way, is normally 60,000 to 90,000 words or longer. Big difference.) A short story is one to three scenes. That’s it. Think of it as a “slice of life,” as in someone peeked into your life for maybe an hour or two and this is what they saw. You’re ...
I started my family research but then I hit that “brick wall” and cannot move forward. I am ready to give up. I don’t know anything about my family past my maternal grandmother and my great grandfather on my father’s side.
I clearly have a fascination with the hard-sells of the car world. I am not sure if I would describe them as catnip or an Achilles heel, but there’s a problem here; one that has cost me money and heartache over time … but that’s another story (told a couple of years ago now...
That joke cover took me…. an afternoon, simple though it is. The real one took a little longer. I did the joke one simply because I was sick and couldn’t think in words. A friend, who is an artist, got stung while I was going through this, and said “Why don’t you just pa...
rear-facing bench seat in the back. Watching the world flow away from you is really satisfying in a way I can’t describe. And, if we were careful in hiding this from Dad, we could be “bold” by making faces at the cars immediately behind us. Fortunately, we did not yet know abou...
In fact, it was only about two-miles from my house, but it might as well have been on the other side of the planet because Up until I heard the words “Rio Hondo,” I had no idea it existed, which, now that I’m writing this, is a pretty depressing truth. I should have known...