Twitter is getting a lot of criticism these days and starting to experiment with some changes to attract more users. Twitter has always been my favorite social network. You can communicate with anyone. You can make connections with people in your field that you would have never met otherwise. It has the potential to lead…
Author Tips
Tips for entrepreneurial authors.
Writer Tip: Exaggerate Your Character’s Thoughts and Feelings
Teenage boys don’t think a lot about their emotions. Teenage boys in books, however, should. I just finished James Dashner’s The Maze Runner and now I’m on to the sequel, The Scorch Trials. Dashner helps the reader understand what the main character is going through by frequently describing an internal dialogue and set of emotions….
NaNoBlogMo: Why Blog Every Day?
Seth Godin blogs every day. He says everyone should do this: Everyone should blog, even if it’s not under their own name, every single day. If you are in public, making predictions and noticing things, your life gets better, because you will find a discipline that can’t help but benefit you. (Source) Fred Wilson, a…
3 Lessons I Learned from Reading Real Artists Don’t Starve
If you want to be a writer, a musician, or an artist of any kind, you don’t have to assume that you are going to be poor and starving for the sake of your art. Real artists can and do thrive and they always have. It is time to retire the “starving artist” myth. That’s…
William Shakespeare: Artist or Entrepreneur?
Thriving artists are entrepreneurs. This isn’t something new that is made possible only by the Internet. Looking closely at the most well-known artists today, you start to realize they were not the lone geniuses sitting in a studio creating their masterpieces. In reading Jeff Goins’s Real Artists Don’t Starve, you start to see example after…
