Is Your Book Cover Misleading?
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Is Your Book Cover Misleading? Book covers give expectations. If you browse through the book store and take a look at the different covers you will notice that based on that you will have certain expectations about the content of the book. Most likely you’ll head straight...
What’s On Your Cover?
[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] What's On Your Cover? Covers give expectations. There is the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” but when it’s really about books or movies that’s exactly what we do. Let’s consider a book shop. If you’re looking for a new book there is not much...
You’re All Alone
[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] You're All Alone Yes, when you’re writing. You’re sitting alone at the desk and it’s just you and the page. But have you ever read the acknowledgements of successful books? Do you think an athlete superstar got to where he is all by himself? Or an actor?...
Stop Writing! You Have Failed.
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Stop Writing! You Have Failed. How often do you ask yourself if you should stop writing? Once a day? Every now and then? And when you ask yourself that, what do you do? What is your measurement if you should still push on. Despite not knowing...
But What Do I Love?
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] But What Do I Love? How often do you worry about if you really want or should be a writer? How often are your thoughts about that running in circles? It can be super hard to find out what we really want to do with our lives....
Find My iPhone
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Find My iPhone Sometimes we get lost in our lives. In our books, our stories. We see things we think we want and then it turns out they’re bad for us. We see people we want to be with, who admire us, and then later we realize...
What’s Your Choice?
[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] What's Your Choice? You can always choose. Somewhere inside you you know that. You just might fear the consequences. But are the consequences really that bad? Most of the time you have more choices than you think. In life and in story development. What can your character...
The Paradox of Inspiration
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Paradox of Inspiration You know the saying, "less is more". Often, things seem to work in contradictory ways. Some examples: You need to spend money to earn money. This doesn't just apply to forming your own company. Sure, when you start a company, you have investments to...
When To Switch To Another Idea
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] When To Switch To Another Idea I bet you know this very well: You are working on your draft when you get a new idea about something and then you switch. You follow the new idea, scrap big parts of your draft until you get another...
The Pain of Typing Up A Handwritten Draft
[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Pain of Typing Up A Handwritten Draft Have you ever had to type up a whole draft that you wrote by hand? It’s tedious, right? It feels like unnecessary work, lost time. You've already written your draft, now you just need to get it all typed...