Before I fall asleep, while my brain is working on alpha waves, I often get ideas for a blog or novel. I do not record them because I believe I will remember them if they are worth writing down and I often succeed in doing so. Sometimes I happen to get two or three ideas and then write them down because I know I can’t hold more than one until the morning. It’s interesting that
The best way to get familiar with a country is by visiting its institutions. Chinese institutions are settled in huge buildings made from marble and glass, and they are spotlessly clean; the employees are uniformed, helpful, and polite; they use modern technology; applications are submitted online; everything resolves relatively quickly; you do everything on the spot and pay by phone or credit card Visiting the state institutions of Serbia provides a time traveling experience. the
There are places where mistakes are not allowed; the surgeon should not operate on the wrong organ; a pilot should not make mistakes while landing… But a surgeon who learns to operate on a model or in an autopsy room can make a mistake, just as a pilot flying a simulator may make a mistake … When our mistakes leave no great consequences and especially when learning, it’s completely normal and expected to make mistakes.
As Chuck Wendig says in his book, Damn Fine Story, a good story consists of fire and oxygen. The fire is exciting and maintains the reader’s tension while oxygen provides the necessary rest. The role of oxygen is not only to give time to breath, it is there to allow the next fire. Stephen King is a master of this technique and one of the good examples is found in the book Bones of Bones.
Professor of Literature at the Faculty of Education in Sombor, prof. Dr. Tihomir Petrovic, often said in his lectures that a man who read one book was much more dangerous than one who didn’t read anything at all. A man who has read one book dogmatically adheres to its contents. These are often recognized as religious fanatics and members of other ideologies who divide people into those whose opinions coincide with their book and those
Professor of Literature at the Faculty of Education in Sombor, prof. Dr. Tihomir Petrovic, often said in his lectures that a man who read one book was much more dangerous than one who didn’t read anything at all. A man who has read one book dogmatically adheres to its contents. These are often recognized as religious fanatics and members of other ideologies who divide people into those whose opinions coincide with their book and those
… means giving something of value to someone who won’t appreciate it. You may know the solution to someone’s problem, you may have good advice, you may have gone through something similar to what someone is currently going through, and you have an extremely simple trick for them that will make their problems disappear, but when you offer them your opinion, they dismiss it without thinking and that drives you crazy. Often people do not
Frauds often gather at the bus stations and popular tourist attractions because that is the place where people whose trust they didn’t have chance to lose still exist. The internet is another place for frauds. There are many email addresses on which they still haven’t got the chance to send their SPAM. Thanks to frauds, it’s very difficult to gain trust from the people who you met on the internet.
Hemingway once said: “The essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, bullshit detector.” I understood it as a writer’s ability to extract a good idea from a multitude of bad ones, but it can also be understood as a writer’s ability to cut all sufficiencies from his writing, or to recognize the truth from lies. Either way, a good bullshit detector is something every writer should have, but it seems to me
The only thing more stupid than writing about writing is writing a blog about writing a blog, but sometimes I have to do that too. I have been writing this blog for over a year now, i started it in English, and since recently I have been writing in both English and Serbian at the same time. There are nearly 250 articles on the English version of the blog, while there are just over 100