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…

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…

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. It’s a way…

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…

How a Radical Group Made Food A Revolutionary Front — Along with the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, the United Prisoners Union activities, the New World Liberation Front bombings, and Viet Nam Vets Against the War, there were food fights in San Francisco. In the early 1970s, collaborative “food conspiracies” -the name of anyone who wanted to participate in distributing food…

Think it’s easy? Yes, if you follow the rules. Whether you are writing for work or plan to write a book, there are several skills that apply across the board. Unfortunately, not too many of us can just sit down and pound out a perfect novel. Writing is learned and…

What it is and what it isn’t — So, as I was noodling around on Google looking up some ideas for writing my next Medium post, I saw these words: Automatic Writing. What is that? A robot writing in place of a human, and I’m about to lose my job? I learned off the bat it is not…

Tips On Using People Search Apps When I was writing my first book, Taking Aim At The President (which is now being republished by a new publisher, Diversion Books), I was researching an event that happened 30 years ago. I wanted to interview people who were there and possibly involved…

Folsom State Prison Strike For Better Wages and Compensation Excerpted from Housewife Assassin-The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford (Diversion Books) Feb. 2023 The goal of the strong and multi-ethnic prisoners’ rights movement in San Francisco that evolved in the 1970s was to improve the treatment of prisoners and…