How I turned my game around after a failed challenge by building a brand new daily schedule

A month ago, I’ve started a 30 days no stats challenge. The reason for that was my obsessive number checking at Google Analytics, Medium and Mail Chimp. If I had any books on sale, I would’ve been checking these numbers, as well. I was addicted to stats checking. Each time my numbers would grow I would get a dopamine injection and I would be happy for some time. When my numbers dropped, I would feel

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February 14, 2019

Humans Vs Technology

There is a general concern that machines are going to take over our jobs and we’ll end up being homeless and eventually die. In this ‘humans vs technology’ war we, humans, still have some effective weaponry in our arsenal; rational judgment. We could teach a machine to play chess, to find an article you need to read, to place an ad based on your interests, but we still can’t teach a machine to think and

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February 12, 2019

How to Improve your Writing by being more Patient

If you wish to improve your writing, you need to be more patient. Writing is a complex process and it requires going through several stages from start to finish. We crave to bring our words into the world as promptly as viable. The desire for being heard burns in our insides and we type as rapidly as we can. As soon as we’re done with the first draft we’d like to hit the “publish” button.

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February 8, 2019

Treat your writing as a proper project

The key to getting a job done is to treat your writing as a proper project. It’s not just sit down and write some words and everything will take care of by itself. You need to make a list of required mini tasks. Usually, it looks like this: Preparation: Get the idea Think of a character Figure out the character’s goal Think of a setting Think of an outer conflict Think of an inner conflict

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February 7, 2019

Why Would You Use a Pen name

It is not unusual for a writer to have a pen name; Mark Twain, George Orwell, Lewis Carroll and many others adopted different names in their ordinary lives. The reasons for having a pen name can be different. Sometimes, if a writer creates something politically sensitive, the reason can be security. It also can because of genre change – a thriller writer suddenly decides to write romance and doesn’t want to disappoint her audience. Sometimes,

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January 31, 2019
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