If you have a day job, and you’re a writer, being on a holiday means living two or three weeks in dream. You write each morning and you spend some time in the afternoon sorting out marketing stuff and blogging. Perfect! But, it comes to an end. What do you do when you go back to your job? Here are the three most important things you need to implement if you want to be successful
Your ‘To-Do List’ is huge and you don’t know where to start. It feels as if you will accomplish nothing. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and discouraged. Remember, you need to do one thing at a time. Each morning, just after you wake, make your to-do list; put everything on it. How many items do you have? 10,20? Now, find the three most important tasks you need to do and cross out the rest of
No, I’m not starting a podcast; yet. Honestly, I didn’t think positively about podcasts until recently. For me, it was like: WTF!? People are sitting in their rooms, talking to themselves and they expect someone to listen to that shit? But, let’s set my ignorant part aside for now. Somewhere during the last year, I discovered Seth Godin. I’ve started to listen to his audiobooks and to read his blogs, just to find out that
How often do you feel trapped and you wish to have more time to do the things you love? Perhaps you have a job, and you can’t wait for the weekend to come. Once the weekend is here, you are more relaxed and you know that you’ll have plenty of time for everything that you’ve planned to do. Two hours later, you catch yourself scrolling through your endless feeds and you feel guilty. Instead of
Writing, like Chess, is a sedentary intellectual activity and those who desire to perform well in it, quite often neglect the physical activity and that’s the main reason why many writers, and chess players, end up being obese, crouched, and unhealthy. Bobby Fisher, who was one of the best chess players in history, had a different approach. Apart from practicing chess, he would spend a great deal of time engaged in physical activities. He enjoyed
Throughout my teens and early adulthood, I was a passionate Football Manager player. In case you haven’t played that game, I will briefly explain it to you. Basically, your role would be to arrange training, prepare tactics and prep talks for upcoming matches, buying and selling players and during the match game, you would “sit on the bench” and watch your team perform. The game is very addictive, and it didn’t have an end; once
Last week, we’ve talked about finding your ideal reader. If you haven’t seen that article, you might want to check this before reading this one. Where do I begin? Writers often hear the question – Where do you get your story ideas? My answer is – I think of a character and a goal. That’s the easiest way to get a story idea and you should do that at the beginning of every story-writing process.
Back in the early ages, fear was something that helped humans to survive until the next day. If there wasn’t fear, our ancestors would’ve been eaten by a tiger or any other dangerous predator that lived around them in given time. Therefore, fear was our friend. How about now? Is fear still something that we need on daily basis? Is fear still our friend? Is fear still saving our lives or is it making them
First of all, welcome to the first in a series of articles on how to outline a novel. Many writers despise outlining, but it doesn’t always have to be something bad and tedious; it might as well be a creative and enjoyable process. Disclaimer Some writers don’t use any form of outlining. They just sit down and write. There is a popular term for those writers; they are called pantsers because they write by the