It doesn’t matter how amazing your performance or products are, if you target the wrong audience, who don’t recognize, appreciate, or need your value, your effort will be both wasted and rejected.
Rejection is just an opinion, remember? It reflects them more than me, right?
~JIA JIAN, author of Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection
WRITING
- From the notebook of a spying writer, Writer Unboxed | Tweet
Like a lot of writers, I’m a people watcher. I’m an observer by nature. Truth be told, at times I’ve spied to get a good story, to create a good character.
→Writing Spy Novels for Profit – Writing For Profit Series
- When dreams go bad–Dream sequences, what works & what flops, Kristen Lamb’s Blog | Tweet
Often new writers will begin with some cool fantastical scene to hook the reader then POOF! The character wakes up and “Ha, ha. It wasn’t real. It was a dream.” This backfires for a number of reasons. First of all, our first five pages are some of our most critical. They are the best selling tool we have for an agent, an editor and even a potential reader.
- Why writing is like yoga, The Write Practice | Tweet
We know how to become better writers. As with anything in life, the way to get better at writing is to practice. That said, there’s two kinds of practice. There’s the competitively oriented kind where you run drills to improve, like soccer. And then there’s the process-oriented kind, where you mindfully return to it over and over, for the sake of the experience itself, like yoga.
→The Essential Guide to Writing a Novel: A Complete and Concise Manual for Fiction Writers
- Secret Revealed: Who the muse really is (and how to discover yours), Positive Writer | Tweet
King believes there is a muse and I wholeheartedly agree with him; furthermore, I’ve discovered exactly who the muse is. It’s someone you know.
→Writing with the Muse: Opening to Conscious Creativity
SCREENWRITING
- 30 Things about screenwriting: The importance of a strong story concept, Go Into The Story | Tweet
If you write a spec script based upon the first story idea that comes into your mind, that script likely won’t sell. Why? Because almost assuredly, it is not a strong story concept.
→Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting
- Working smart to achieve your dreams of screenwriting, Script Mag | Tweet
Many of us have looked at our dream jobs, such as screenwriting, and either thought or been told that only certain people can have that dream. We are told that only the incredibly lucky or the connected few can become screenwriters, actors, directors, or any of those other careers that sound too good to be true.
→Screenwriting is Storytelling: Creating an A-List Screenplay that Sells!
SELF-PUBLISHING
- Sell more books on Amazon! Tip #1 Pitching via Email, Author Mkt Experts | Tweet
Email is fast, quick and easy to pitch bloggers but there is a right and wrong way to do this. A bad pitch or a rambling email can send your email into the delete bin so here are some quick tips to get your pitch the attention it deserves.
- Audiobook production and marketing tips with Jeffrey Kafer, The Creative Penn | Tweet
On changes in the audiobook market and why it’s a good time for authors to do audiobooks.
→Recording Audiobooks: How To Create An Audio Book for Audible
SELF-IMPROVEMENT
- Fear of rejection: 2 ways to beat it, backed by research, Barking up the wrong tree | Tweet
We all deal with fear of rejection. Jia Jiang did too. But he overcame it… thanks to a box of donuts.
→Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection
HEALTH
- How to teach yourself to actually like vegetables, Psychology Today | Tweet
The best thing about vegetables is that we’re supposed to eat more of them. Veggies are so high in vitamins, minerals, fiber and phytochemicals that they play a major role in keeping us healthy. And they’re so low in calories that we can eat our fill.
→Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single Cook
NEUROSCIENCE
- The brains of the buddhist and the neuroscientist, The Atlantic | Tweet
What compassion does to the brain.
→Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
SCIENCE
In its pursuit of explaining things that previously seemed beyond words, does reason stifle the imagination? Can rationalism coexist with a reverence for mystery?
→What Is This Thing Called Science?
TECHNOLOGY
- The Amazon Echo
: Everything your might not know, Re/code | Tweet
: Everything your might not know, Next week, Amazon will start widely shipping its most unusual and intriguing hardware device since the Kindle: The Echo, a slender, nine-inch-tall cylinder built to respond to voice commands ranging from “What’s the weather in Hong Kong?” to “How many teaspoons are in a tablespoon?” to “Play ‘Fire and Rain’ by James Taylor.