Doing 5 minutes of stand-up comedy is on my bucket list. I can’t think of anything more…
By now the news is spreading across the Internet: The Escapist has been bought from Defy Media by Enthusiast Gaming, with Russ Pitts (somebody who I have worked with in the past) as its new Editor-in-Chief. But, some claims have been made…
“Well, I won’t follow what you teach….because it’s unethical.”
I was lucky enough to join InVision’s seminar series on UX copy last week, and pick the brains of talented UX writers Biz Sanford, Ada Powers, Sara Zailskas Walsh and Lauren Pope. They had a treasure trove of tips about process, inclusive UX copy, collaboration and forms —…
When I helped a fellow writer with her novel recently, it made me realise that I want to help and support…
Break up writing tasks into half-hour segments with a reward at the end of each completed one.
I often get asked how I manage to handle all the stuff I do. I write. I teach, both through Screenwriting Master Class and the…
How can I improve on my writing? Which is the best format, style and technique to use? Where can I get…
I had just finished secondary school when I met my first waterloo in writing. Without access to electronic resources, for two days I filled…
“All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn’t be that hard” — The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
One key piece of advice I always hear when writing — whether it be for my blog…
There are moments when one needs to fold. For some it can mean a pulling back, a disconnection from the outside, it can even mean to quit. To break. To fall apart. And yes, sometimes that’s why we fold.
Compare screenplay to movie: The famous horse head scene in The Godfather, written by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, based on Puzo’s novel.
Take up the challenge! Read 30 screenplays in 30 days!
Why 30 screenplays in 30 days?
Because whether you are a novice just starting to learn the craft of screenwriting or someone who has…
No matter if in code through clear names or explanatory comments, or as a pull request description giving context to…
I’m a poor man.
As I walked through the stately doors of the abandoned institution, I couldn’t shake the dismal feeling that overwhelmed me. Tendrils of…
By Katharine Shuster Correll
In 2000, my mother held a get-together at our home for the Academic Decathlon team. She was the coach for the…
This past Sunday, my boyfriend and I decided to run up the side of a mountain. Okay, so it wasn’t really a mountain…
“You’re halfway through a chapter and you start to notice that…
We’ve all noticed how Medium has slowly been distancing itself from what we all signed up for. We’ve complained about it, discussed it, become frustrated at how little Medium and…
Plastic Love Melts, Real Love Doesn’t
Dear men,
Throwing money around is the kind of behaviour that attracts girls with crass and repels girls with class. If you want your money to attract the best girls to you, then use it to develop yourself. Dress well, read well and behave well. You see, plastic…
“Cancelled dates mean different things to everyone, and mine mean relief that I don’t have to shave anything.”
“Telling me that you’re not cancelling the date because I’m ugly is about as useful as tits on a mail box”
“You told me I’m ‘very pretty.’ First of all, obviously ...”
Blog #11
A life as a series of discoveries not unlike the work in a lab. A fly’s wing as a canvas for making beautiful art. The distance between…
Originally published July 24, 2018
I’ve been working as a facilitator in one way or another since 2000 (abroad and domestically, with incredible people and organizations) and have never published or written in any meaningful way about the ideas and work I encounter or…
My schedule at the Portland, Oregon event this weekend: August, 2–5.
Hey, listen for a moment.
I am recovering “to do list” writer too. I still have my lists (my security blanket just in case I forgot something.) but I don’t get anxious about my list or not checking sth. of that list. Instead, as you mentioned I schedule a time to do tasks and put another task on hold to focus on what I’m doing at the moment. It saves time and energy in the long run.
The work-in progress of the first document to chart out the concept of the Guild. Will be published, and edited in semi-real-time.
About this Document:
Non è passato un giorno, negli ultimi mesi, senza che io abbia digitato almeno una volta la giorno l’indirizzo taschebucate.com.
Ogni volta la stessa visione: una pagina statica, molte ambizioni e qualche ragnatela di troppo. Ogni giorno la…
“Hello, Danny. Come and play with us. Come and play with us, Danny. Forever… and ever… and ever.”
— The Shining (1980), screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Diane Johnson, novel by Stephen King
One“For the writer, everything is writing,” a professor of mine said. “Writing is writing, of course, but so is reading. So is walking. Looking out a window is writing too. It all flavors the stew.”
I completely subscribe to Henry Latham’s idea of “writing” to gain clarity of thought, and he describes this well in his article on “How…
Blogging is about demand and supply. We need to find what the reader need and write for them, so it is essential that we explore what the reader like.
July was one hell of an interesting month. I fared really bad when it comes to challenges I set for…
If you are a student, which you probably are, because you are reading this, then you know how hard it may be to keep your grades high all the time and to complete all of your assignments successfully. We completely understand that…
Is it not that our tales are twined in the essence of fate?
Yes! Self-awareness is such a personal and important skill to have. Not only knowing who you are and what you want, your talents and skills, but knowing and understanding your weaknesses and strengths and how to build and improve!
July 27, 2018Why
I’ve been in the midst of a panic attack for five days now, all because I am supposed to write a few paragraphs of copy for a website I’m being paid to create. Every time I sit down to write out the simple, expository text about…
I did not see where someone had asked you, “You get to write for fun. That must be great.” I have spent many a time telling my clients (I was an art direct for years) you really need a copywriter for your brochure, ad, whatever, only to be met with a blank stare then the question, “Can’t you write it?”
And comes back with treasure.
Badly hungover this morning — read my new play with a group of actors last night and we just kept…
Do you have some troubles with writing your annotated bibliography? What if we tell you that it doesn't need to be that way? Yes, you can get some help easily and quickly! Are you searching for some generator or a tool…
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Finally! I’ve always though that sitting down at my keyboard and just letting the words flow onto the screen was the wrong way to write. Yet that’s the way I’ve written my best stories.
The moment I decided this is my future
The skin was already cold. The color dissolved in the face as death slowly stretched across…
The Heart of Darkness
You formed me. Fashioned me. Created me
Since finding the Bullet Journal, I have been obsessed with habit tracking. A year later, not so much.
I read
because
it is always said
that to write, read,
read a lot,
but lately I read
In-Sight Publishing
How to Think Like a Genius 54-Cautionary
Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner
August 1, 2018
Sometimes I see a path and I just want to keep on walking, far past that old flat Ohio horizon and down into the hills where I really belong, those mountains and valleys that beckon…
Questions For The Machines Testing Kids
#INTRODUCTION
There is a gentleman sitting outside an office. He’s young, fresh out of college, well-groomed, and well-dressed with the appropriate attire…
Welcome to Scamfighter.net! What we do is help people with their studies by collecting customer reviews on custom writing services and providing them with academic tips on how to make their education process as smooth as possible! So how the reviews are gathered? We…
Thanks for writing this, Vasco.
I do continue to pay membership not to access member-only content, but to support the mission, which I recently highlighted from Ev’s 2012 blog post:
Medium is not about who you are or whom you know, but about what you have to…
In my sophomore year of high school, my gym teacher provided me with a definition of success that has greatly informed my way of approaching various personal and professional tribulations. He said that “if you are excited to both go to…
I have lost hershe was perfecta smile I adoredher face glowedas helpless I am
The First Room
Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Your calendar just cleared for the weekend, and that excitement…
By Alison Chan
It is a convenient excuse. I was helping my daughter, who had been living with us for a month, to get ready for her new…
I have a close friend going through a break-up right now and I find it’s actually hard to know what to say to him. I don’t want to sound like I’m a “know it all”. And I’m trying to be encouraging to him by saying things like “maybe this was meant to be” and “time will heal this”.
As a writer, it’s easy for me to wake up everyday and proceed to think, “Today, I want to write because I…
User Posts & Medium Publications
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Learning to Spiritually And Creatively Exist
An experienced education administrator, Dr. Nancy Coogan has overseen operations at multiple Washington State school districts and conducted extensive research on mindfulness in education. Dr. Nancy Coogan…
Beautiful piece ma’am.
I can relate more because I’ve been through Chetak crying things on own.
It was a motivation I needed today.
Thank you.
Congrats on joining the freelance force Tom. I think I can help allay some of your most pressing concerns:
Q: Is it obligatory to stay in your pyjamas all day?
A: Pyjamas are not mandatory but if you are going to attack the biscuits more assiduously than you used to in your previous office-bound…
I would not dare to speak except in love
Las palabras se deslizaban desde su lengua hasta impactar en el suelo, soltando incongruencias a la gran mujer. Una vez se recompuso, la miró largamente y asintió.
— Soy yo. ¿Quién te envía?
一般報紙專欄作者都天天出文（有d仲要幾個地盤，即係一日要寫幾篇），對於睇慣報紙既讀者黎講，咁先叫正常。
定係而家年青人太多野要睇，又ig、又抖音、又utube、又fb、又連登……一邊要read另一邊又要write，仲要影相拍片。所以先覺得日日追同一個作者既文變成一種負擔？
Powerful and honest as always. Good to see you Tre.
My 2 cents:
The deeper that sorrow curves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran — The Prophet
If we replace sorrow and joy with heartbreak and love, this leaves us with the…
I will always look for words to help me find my way out of the weeds.I don’t always write poetry. I don’t always write stories.Many times I find myself writing lines of absolute nonsensemaybe because nonsensical is all I’ve ever really felt.
In the 21st century, it may seem like how we have a lot of options when it comes to solving some tasks we have or getting any help from the Internet. Yet, numerous people may find themselves lost because of too many…
I keep coming back to the same fundamental truth — that is, truth for me.
You wake up. Get out of bed. Shower and freshen up. Prepare your morning coffee and take a sip.
Hi Lindsay Linegar, I’d love the chance to write for Creative Humans… Something like this?
Driving around in a Ferrari is not my thing, well, to be honest, I will never afford one and I am not into sports cars driving on…
Are you searching for reliable and trusted Vancouver citation maker? If you do, then continue reading because we have created a huge list of best citation makers. From time to time, it happens that students have countless obligations and…
Returning to write on Medium is a lot like going back to school after being gone for a week. A few people notice your gone, but a lot of people didn't really noticed.
While I was writing this, I heard Al Pacino’s voice in my head ala: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” XD
Thank you for your kind words, Anna. I really enjoyed writing it.
It’s like magic when this happens. Almost as if the story is writing itself and we get to watch along as it develops.
I have been thinking a lot about this!
Great post Steve! I love the benefits of gratitude. These are so important for all of us to remember. I am interested to think about it in regards to sleep.
Thank you again!
The time you write whatever you write. Be playful, be different, surprise yourself, shock the moment itself. Keep yourself…
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REDGRAVE, Tx — 12:12 PM, Wednes., by Angelo Stapleton
Thank you for your kind words. I spent a long time wondering what he meant. It sounds so cruel on the surface, but the real intention makes perfect sense to me.
Holy crap.
I just wrote something every day for 31 days straight. Basically, I treated this self-imposed writing challenge like an online journal. It was a little self-exploration exercise of sorts.
I couldn’t have said it any better, Mukundarajan V N!
I( karl Kjer ) am a native English speaker with extensive editing experience. As a former professor with a Ph.D., I have published over 70 papers as the principal or co-author, 53 of which have been cited at least 10 times…
I write other genres and about other topics, but writing about writing is the only one which works for me… Too many other pieces sank like stones. Unless you’re featured by Medium (and you know the topics…) you’re going nowhere. I don’t stop writing about what I want, of course, but it’s quite impossible to be seen by more than a few fellows, unless you count your followers in tens of thousands. :(
Whooohooo! I did it — I won Camp NaNoWriMo. A week ago I thought I would fail especially when my…
The Shipwrecked by Moniru Ravaniour
The story is about a woman writing a story and being reminded of a previous death. At the start there is not much character development and the scenery is barely mentioned. As the main character…
I’ve been devoting time to writing poetry. The morning works for me, so does early evening before bed. This may not be the case for other poets.
Some people write poetry as a academic exercise. Others because they want to do something…
Description: Dissertation writing is one of the most difficult tasks students have to perform these days. It is one of those processes which hold the power to change the future of the students. A lot…
The cold air of the mountain pushed through the valley snow into the gaps in my wooden shack. It creaked, the wind lifting scraps of paper and wood, rattling the single carved bowl and spoon. I lay on my side in the far corner, hugging my knees under my rag of a blanket as grey clouds gather overhead. Dancing…
It has now been an entire year that I have had my debut novel To Die For on sale. I have learnt so much over the year about writing, designing, formatting and self-publishing a book.
This summer has been a finger snap. We’ll no doubt be heading into the final third of the summer like we’re being chased by responsibilities…
If you have a blog, chances are you already understand the importance of business blogging…
Airway is tightened.
“Love is beautiful in its simplicity and intriguing in its complexity” but it is prevalent to think that nothing is permanent which is a deceitful claim. Cosmic entities like patience, anger, solitude all existed and will exist forever. Well i stole the essence of love and made it mine. I fought…
Unless the audience is aware of what the ending already is because it’s been scripted that way, your characters should never be that behind your audience in figuring things out. I agree that it’s the Kiss of Death for any movie. Thanks for reading and commenting, Sally!
I was having lunch with Will Wilkinson in Iowa City, and as people who write (or in my case try) are apt to do, we complained about the difficulty and pain of writing. It made me feel better that a New York Times columnist and think tank policy director found…
Dull and Winter by Martin D Angelus
Arms up above the head, head looking north towards heaven
Ligaments and sinews of muscles pull up, sturdy ropes
Unerupted wings meet each other in a tight embrace as arms spread to horizontal: an eagle taking flight
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She was a really good person. One of those teachers that you remember for a lifetime.
If you work at a computer for a living, then it’s safe to say that if you aren’t typing away at the keyboard, you are holding your mouse. But, what if I were to tell you that you’ve been doing it wrong this whole time and that there is now a different way that you can hold it that can help relieve…
On Twitter recently, I read this piece of advice: “All you have to do is write one true sentence…
Courage
What is courage?
A brave knight riding on his mustang in the dark night to save his beloved princess from the fire-breathing dragon. But it seems like the story always starts the same.
The brave and cowardly people are both fearful
Beautiful Liam. Being a mum and a daughter I can totally relate.
Well, sometimes the one word at a time comes when I’ve written five and deleted four… but progress nonetheless!
Everybody knows this or we guess those who are in the last year of their masters or PhD program can understand this that dissertation writing is no doubt quite…
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Hi, everyone! I am planning a trip to the best leisure cities in US in a few months. I found a lot lot lot guides and lists and overviews, but they feel outdated and not reliable. I am thinking about writing a guide of the most hyped vs underrated shows and events. Maybe you’ve got…
The extinction of words became a reminder
The reason why time never preceded in the moments I saw the final you…..
I don’t know why I am the way I am. Why I love too much. Why I care too much. There are days that go by that I wish I could some how turn it off. Become some cold hearted bitch who…
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I think you.
Obliged by your beauty, I sit before the canvas.
Shivering mind struggled to connect with the heart.
Box of paint containers and lifeless brushes pleaded for a life.
Thanks, Holly! Yes, yes: Give us the drama — don’t save it for your mama! XD Exactly: You move the pieces around and leave the rest off-balance, some teetering on the edge, all potentially taking a nose-dive at any single moment. How could you not sit on the edge of your seat?
Thanks — and it all just fell into place. I’ve been researching and studying the HJ and the simplicity and logical sequence appeals to me.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the others in this series.
The full 50 claps for you, Jodi Tandet, for true originality =) Thanks for a little sparkle of humor!
Ah, that’s very kind of you to say, Mike. I’m glad that I could help! =)
Albeit my sudden disappearance of muse
Words keep flooding my temple
Yet again, nothing is worth exhausting my mental
Thought I gravely miss them, my sentinels
Nothing gets me more riled up than mis-used apostrophes. I am so with you there!
In every story I publish, though, no matter how closely I proof read, I always find some little problem or two (or three) after it’s gone live.
My consumption to production ratio is too high.
"Chitra see here, I'm gonna eat this chocolate you kept in the fridge!" I teased her by waving the chocolate. In a fraction of second, her faced turned like a beetroot, she threw the TV remote away and hasted towards me. Anyway that's what I wished for.
I skinned my knee when I was young.
I waved my magic hand over it and it was gone. There was no sign I’d been hurt
My friend scraped his elbow. I waved my hand and the scrape was gone.
Life is a puzzle.
Not always can be resolved
where do I fit in?
