Quote of the day
If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it’s important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.
~KEN ROBINSON, author of Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
WRITING
Editing Your Novel After NanoWrimo: Can You Clean The Mess?, The Authors’ Nook | Tweet
Whether you did NanoWriMo or just decided to write a 50,000-word pile of shit and then try to shine it into a pile of gold, this is for you. Does this sound familiar?
- Making the Time to Write, Indie Reader | Tweet
You do have extra hours in your day to write. And we’ll show you where to find them!
A Writer’s Time: Making the Time to Write
Start With A Bang! Opening Scenes and First Chapters, Write Divas | Tweet
What makes an opening scene great? What is it about an exceptional first chapter that makes a reader want—or need—to continue on with the story?
Elements of Fiction Writing – Beginnings, Middles & Ends
Don’t Make These 4 Common Short Story Mistakes, The Write Practice | Tweet
Short stories are a great way to hone your craft and snag bylines from literary magazines (and hey, they’re also a ton of fun to write). Even better, they can help you build your readership—assuming they’re written well.
SHORT STORY: From FIRST Draft to FINAL Product
SCREENWRITING
- WRITERS ON WRITING: The Writing Of ‘Crash’, Script Mag | Tweet
The Writing of Crash. We started with the end of Act Two, with an epiphany—a horrible realization—and asked, what do you do about it? During the writing process, we didn’t try to understand where these people go. We put them in situations to test them, to come to some understanding about who they were, and we wanted to end the movie there, where most movies would actually be ending Act Two.
SELF-PUBLISHING
Where To Direct Your Ebook Marketing And Promotion, Just Publishing | Tweet
If you self publish ebooks, where do you direct your marketing and promotion?
EBOOK Marketing: The Complete Guide to Online Book Promotion
The State of the Publishing Industry in 5 Charts, Jane Friedman | Tweet
Over on my Pinterest account, I keep tabs on data, charts, and infographics related to the media industry—and every so often, I reflect on what the most recent stats are telling us.
EXERCISE
Getting closer to understanding how exercise keeps brains young, Harvard Medical School | Tweet
Most of us have had firsthand experience with memory lapses. We find ourselves flustered trying to recall a name during a conversation. We forget where we parked the car. We can’t recall items on the short grocery list we left back at home.
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
THE BRAIN
Texts, emails, cellphone messages, tweets, news alerts, apps and fit bits. We are expected to process much more information than ever before.
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
PASSION
The One Formula To Find Your Passion In Life, James Altucher | Tweet
Einstein found his passion because he wondered what a man traveling the speed of light on a spaceship if he looked out the window and saw a man standing still. He daydreamed and doodled and found his passion.
Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
BEAUTY
“Did you know you have the face of a Botticelli and the body of a Degas?” Robert Downey, Jr.,’s Jack Jericho character says to countless women in the 1987 film The Pick-Up Artist.
