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Tips On How To Write An Action Scene That Is Tight

Follow these 3 tips to make it jump off the page — Here is the first thing you have to decide: What are you writing? Is it a battle or a physical fight? It’s an important question as the answers will be different. To be clear, this post is all about the action scenes. Short and tight. Don’t be that author that…

Fighting

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Tips On How To Write An Action Scene That Is Tight
Tips On How To Write An Action Scene That Is Tight
Fighting

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Writers’ Blokke

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Are You Repeatedly Getting Your Book Rejected?

Ask Yourself These Five Questions As a writer, I have had my share of rejections. It goes with the territory. Hopefully, it doesn’t defeat you and you continue to get out there with your work and keep submitting potential freelance clients, publishing houses, agents, and contests. Of course, we all…

Publishing

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Are You Repeatedly Getting Your Book Rejected?
Are You Repeatedly Getting Your Book Rejected?
Publishing

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How Canning Fruit Supports My Writing

I found the perfect antidote to writer burnout We’ve all learned how certain practices support others. Such a taking a walk can help us work out a problem or vacuuming the carpet encourages the resolution for a dilemma. For me it is hard labor of picking fruit and canning that…

Writing Tips

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How Canning Fruit Supports My Writing
How Canning Fruit Supports My Writing
Writing Tips

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Essential Metrics for Successful Growth Hacking

Tips On How to Grow Your Business Faster and Maintain Momentum For new companies that want to ramp up quickly, the “go to” approach for fast growth is “growth hacking.” Growth hacking is a method for start-ups to reach larger audiences in a short amount of time. …

Startup Lessons

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Essential Metrics for Successful Growth Hacking
Essential Metrics for Successful Growth Hacking
Startup Lessons

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The Power of the 5 Senses in Stories

Writing is about inhabiting an entire world and everything we experience When we walk through life in the real world, there are things around us we don’t necessarily notice. We just absorb the sight and smells that make up our reality. However, in order to bring your book and the…

Writing Tips

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The Power of the 5 Senses in Stories
The Power of the 5 Senses in Stories
Writing Tips

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ILLUMINATION

·May 12

I Miss My Mother This Mother’s Day

I regret I didn’t recognize her wisdom when she was alive — It just doesn’t get easier every year after she died. My mother was not your typical mom with cookies when you came home from school. …

Mothers

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I Miss My Mother This Mother’s Day
I Miss My Mother This Mother’s Day
Mothers

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·May 12

I’m Tired Of Reading Medium Posts About How I Can Make $1,000 On One Blog Post

I’ve complained before about the empty and misleading promises — OK, so maybe I’m jealous, but not really. I’m seriously annoyed about misleading headlines that promise one thing but never deliver. Such as, “I made $1,000 on one blog post.” What they don’t tell you is that it wasn’t just on Medium. It was part of a freelance project or…

Blogging

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I’m Tired Of Reading Medium Posts About How I Can Make $1,000 On One Blog Post
I’m Tired Of Reading Medium Posts About How I Can Make $1,000 On One Blog Post
Blogging

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ILLUMINATION

·May 2

I have Trouble Focusing These Days

Looking for solutions — I have a lot of work on my desk, and I can’t seem to focus on anything. I’m so frustrated, but can’t overcome the ADHD I’m experiencing. …

Adhd

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I have Trouble Focusing These Days
I have Trouble Focusing These Days
Adhd

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Writers’ Blokke

·Apr 29

Mind Mapping Your Way To Your Best Writing

An excellent way to get past the doldrums — Are you in a writing funk these days? Sometimes it is just too difficult to sit down and write. Maybe you are out of ideas. Wow, that happens a lot, no matter how many Medium blogs are created to tell you how to overcome the blahs. I know because I…

Mind Mapping

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Mind Mapping Your Way To Your Best Writing
Mind Mapping Your Way To Your Best Writing
Mind Mapping

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ILLUMINATION

·Apr 20

Excellent Advice on Self Care

What you need to know to keep going — This post is from Mary Knipple, a writing coach, and mentor: “Your Writing Mentor” Hearing the word audit, do you think about the familiar April 15 deadline and the number crunching for the Internal Revenue Service? That’s not what I’m suggesting you focus on here. No, I’m referring to a…

Writing Life

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Excellent Advice on Self Care
Excellent Advice on Self Care
Writing Life

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Geri Spieler

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Award-winning writer, master researcher, journalist, former Gartner analyst, non-fiction author. Reach me at gspieler@gmail.com

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