Writing

How to Become a Writer For Mind Cafe

Our submission guidelines, tips, and best practices.

Mission: Impossible — Fallout & The Art Of The Plot Twist [Storycraft]

Persuasive Essay Example: Is It Better to Give Than to Receive?

Five Ways To Be a More Productive Writer

Many of us are striving to be as productive as we can possibly be, but it’s not easy. As…

How Long Will it Take to Publish Your Writing?

A Case Study

It’s okay to be a slow writer.

I’m Ryan and I am a proud, slow writer.

As A Blogger, Here’s What I’ve Given Up To Be ‘Successful’

All Writers End Up Accepting This Advice One Day

I learned a lesson or two from Florence + The Machine tonight.

How I Wrote A 3500 Word Narrative Non-Fiction Article About ‘Madvillainy’

Some insight into the…

How three foundational copywriting principles help me pitch any idea

Blitz Beta Update 0.8.0: Introducing CLANS for friends— Our biggest update yet!

In Defense of Happy Endings

Something I am tragically opinionated on is the tragically controversial concept of happy endings in fiction…

Rich Dad Poor Dad

A book review of the first book that changed my entire mentality towards money.

블록체인의 대표적인 종류에 대해 아시나요?

암호화폐에서 블록체인이란 가장 핵심적인 기술인데요. 블록체인은 접근 할 수 있는 권한이나 참여 할 수 있는 범위에 따라 크게 두가지로 나누어 볼 수 있습니다.

Ditch the Freelance Struggle

Freelancing doesn’t have to be a constant pursuit of new clients. If you’re tired of the ups and downs of freelancing, consider a different strategy.

How Steve Jobs Solved Young Writer’s Problem in Hollywood

When your creativity is scorched, Steve’s childhood story provides a path

Losing My Top Writer Status on Medium

It went away as unexpectedly as I got it

Set Pieces, Part 1: Spin the Plot

One of the most valuable pieces of brainstorming a screenwriter can do with regard to a story is conjure up some good set pieces.

Call For Writers: Financial Inclusion in Urban India

Storythings is looking for narrative writers to unearth stories around financial inclusion and credit in India

The Pros and Cons of Serial Fiction

Over the past fifteen years, serial fiction has experienced a resurgence, particularly with the evolution of blogging…

Historical Fiction: a diverse genre

Sometimes I wonder whether there is anything so inherently ‘diverse’ than writing historical…

How to Take a Vacation When You’re a Freelancer

My Truest Piece of Advice for Achieving Success on Medium

And It Goes Against What Others Usually Say

Monday Musings, 2000

Monday 3rd January, 2000

The Elephant Men

Meet the oozies: Inside life at a logging camp in Myanmar's Bago-Yoma ranges

“Write What You Know” is Terrible Advice

It IS If You’re a Fiction Writer

10 horror anthologies that will scare you sleepless

How Not to Hate Your Writing

First, try to hate something, anything, else. Your sister perhaps, her myopia, the kids she shows off via…

Why I’m Giving Out 50 Claps For Every Damn Story!

Memories Can’t Wait: Thinking Through Material Affects

If You Don’t Do This, Your Book Will Bomb

Recently, when traveling, I made a serious culinary mistake.

How to set page number in TeXmacs

By Shelby Hui-Jun Chen 陳惠鈞

If you are wondering how to set page number in TeXmacs, here’s the way.

Type \assign, and then press enter, you can form something like

I Used to Write. What Happened?

I used to write. Why did I stop?

In 6th grade, I wrote often and my subject matter varied. I wrote a screenplay for a crime procedural of the Law and Order ilk. This screenplay told the story of a man sickened and clinging to life in the ICU. The…

Flexing Your Creative Muscle

Writing has become a necessary evil in my life.

How to Not Sell Out

Wearing what appears to be a stylish trash bag and dumpster jeans, he stops the music cold.

Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Publish are Not the Same. Not all Publishes are Created Equal

9 Questions Television Writers Must Answer When Developing A Television Show by Peter Russell

Answering on Quora: “How important is a book description to selling books?”

Hint: Very important.

On making and breaking routine

{how I’m finding stability in the midst of chaos}

I’m technically homeless right now. It’s not that I’m living on the streets or anything like that, but I don’t have a home of my own since we found toxic mold in the…

“Borges and I,” by Simon Black

It was quite astonishing to read in the online journal Palimpest the other day a complete…

Scannability: A Case for Uppercase

I’ve put together this article about scannability as a result of a conversation I had recently with…

Should Writers Go on Vacation?

Writing is an interesting profession in the sense that you don’t actually need to be anywhere to get your…

Daily Dialogue — August 13, 2018

Macon: Well, looks like you just about cleaned everybody out, fellah. You haven’t lost a hand since you got to deal. What’s the secret of your success?
Sundance Kid: [pause] Prayer.

2018 Scene-Writing Challenge: Day 6

Write some scenes. Win a great prize.

For the sixth straight year, August is Scene-Writing Month here at Go Into The Story. Every Monday-Friday, I will upload a post with a scene-writing prompt. Each day, write a scene per those guidelines…

Write what you like. Don’t follow guidelines.

What have I learned after a month of blogging? Let me see here..

Nothing really. Blogging is still an unexplored world to me, it’s still new waters. But one thing I can say I learned for sure is that you can’t compete and…

Musical Chairs

Sometimes promoting books feels like I’m caught in an endless game of musical chairs.

The 5 Best Characteristics of Successful Ghostwriter

Bridging the gap between awesome ideas and enviable writing skills, ghost writers are a blessing to the creative sphere in the current times. They dwell in the shadows, work efficiently and deliver superb quality write-ups tailored to the…

Dear Creative: Beware of Thieves

They’re stealing your passion, your purpose and your happiness

Understanding Myself Part I: The Why

When I first decided that I should start writing content online, I can’t say what it was that I…

“If We Stopped Trying To Compete Can You Imagine The Places We Could Go” With Author Nicola Mar

From Beyond the Frames

“Why won’t your grandmother sit for pictures with the rest of the family?”

His Google Doc will “disappear”

There’s a long list of middle school distractions to get through before Eric’s story will be finished.

Blogging in an Evening Gown

Blogging on a WordPress site feels so formal. I have to put on a fancy dress to write. While on a Blogger…

Finding Creative Ideas

Everything begins with a thought. One of the thoughts I had circling around in my over active brain, whilst I was…

Five references to feed your thoughts…

This morning after waking, I had choices — an abundance of choices. What should I make for…

Overcoming Distractions and Writing More

My new habit will be to write an article of at least 600 words daily and try, without…

Steal More Time for Writing With This Simple Strategy

Be “the notebook person.”

Top 5 Motivational Books to Boost Your Motivation

In Their Own Language

Sometimes children see more than they should

Group of the Month — July: ScrAmy (Scrabble)

The goal of the group is to create one word (max 8 letters) out of the numbers…

Welcome to my world

Three Stages of World-building

One Word At A Time: The Law of Compound Effects

People often tell me how overwhelming the thought is of writing a book. All those pages. All those words.

But no one writes a book in one day. It takes time because words across the page are a sequential step-by-step…

Failing comes with its own perks.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately. Constantly thinking. Thinking about a million things per second. The thing which never seemed to have left my mind since yesterday is that why do we, and the people around us, when we talk about successful people, only see and observe…

How to Recover from a Vulnerability Hangover

After 11 years of failed books and ideas, I hit send on a book proposal I’m truly…

For Those Who Feel Burnt Out

For those of you who somewhat follow my articles on Medium, you’re probably wondering where the hell I’ve…

In the Company of Writers

By Sunday, we were exhausted — overfull and overstimulated and still overjoyed to be in the company of writers.

The Best Piece Of Advice You’ll Ever Receive

Stop reading advice articles on Medium.

There it is. There’s your advice.

Bullshit

I’m sick and tired of article culture right now. Everyone’s out here with their top ten…

Introduction to This Project

This “publication” is not what you’re used to seeing in a publication on Medium.

This publication is a collection of “stories” that form a book, but this book has not been finished.

On Writing

“When I write, I live with my characters. It’s like going to work. You see the people at the next desk in full regalia all the time, and…

A Lesson from Patrick Rothfuss

For the last five weeks or so, I haven’t been able to write.

The Secret To Achieving Your Career Goals

Do you know where you’d like to be in one year when it comes to your career? In five…

Art is medicine

Expressive art, like expressive writing, can help heal emotional wounds — Part II

Chasing Words

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I was chasing words 
Today, yesterday
The day before
From beads of dew to phantom dives
In the cafés, in the streets, on the…

Why I Fail: A Writer’s Ironic Reflections

How Three Unfinished Works Compelled Me to Finish This One.

The Writing Life: What Do E.B. White and General Robert E. Lee Have In Common?

Agreed. I have 24K followers, which should mean that my articles would get a fair few views. But the referrals for the piece I wrote yesterday look like the below. The majority have come from my newsletter link and Facebook. Admittedly, most of my followers were accumulated a couple of years ago (I took a break to write a book). But I’d hope that…

Two Weeks In: My Thoughts on Medium

I consider my first two weeks on Medium a success. I’ve accrued over 2,000 views on my writing…

Time For Writing: The Struggle is Real, Part One

Life Inside The Margins

As a child, I struck an unusual balance between grasping a lot of concepts for my age and completely overlooking the obvious.

When we started using ruled, three-hole-punched sheets of paper, I would turn in work that would get high marks — along with comments…

What I Did on My Summer Vacation

Became a proofreader, web designer, publisher, and publicist, and…

In the group fitness instructor world, of which I’m part, August is a treacherous month for healthy head counts in classes. Numbers go seriously down given factors like end of summer family vacations. The encroaching start of school. And getting college age kids packed up and settled in their dorms, often halfway across the state or out of state.

Understanding classes and objects in python

what is class?

A Class is logical grouping collection of attributes(variables) and methods(functions)

Syntax:

class ClassName:

Fulfillment

silence the world
and make for me a cradle 
of the sweetest words

Why Bother Reading A Literary Book?

“I know more than I can express in words and the little I can express would not have been…

Implementation classes and objects in python

before i discus what is class & object.now implementation class & object.create Employee class and object employee.

class Employee:

name = “Shadman shakib”

designation =…

How to write an Effective, Readable, and SEO-Friendly Blog Article

Вкус к пище и словам

Меня никогда не учили удовольствиям. Вкусно есть, сладко спать, с радостью гулять — все это сейчас звучало как-то…

ho o non ho dormito

non è una domanda

sono il peggior regista di me stesso

ma ho un cielo più azzurro degli altri

e tu sei solo un pezzo del mio cielo

3 Tools to Maximize your Writing On-the-go

Everyday solutions for when pen and paper won’t do.

Préférez-vous être l’ornithologue ou l’oiseau ?

Letters to a Young Writer, de Colum McCann, pose d’emblée le principe que l’on ne peut pas enseigner l’écriture. Cependant, on peut l’apprendre. Les autodidactes font de mauvais professeurs. Le monde de la littérature est fait d’autodidactes. En…

RELATIVITY OF THE MIND

I have come to a conclusion, that there will always be a thought of — maybe — or better still that sense of doubt that…

You probably don’t need…

You probably don’t need more money.

Or more time.

Or more ideas.

Or more help.

Or more followers.

What Happens When You Take Anxiety To The Waves?

🌊 a Slipstream ✍️

Squeezing More Life From The Good Days

Sometimes you see cause and effect. “I feel this way today because I did this yesterday.” And sometimes it comes from nowhere. Nothing. There is sun and then there are dark clouds.

Arcanum Canis

It’s a cold winter evening in Calumet Park a few years ago and I am walking my dog, K9. I named him after the robot dog from the…

All Of The Minutes That We Are Alive

At first, we were singing. On the same page. The same song. In the lake. Naked. Ok, that wasn’t…

Saving money at home, making your own coffee or tea, and having the ability to just chill without being self-conscious around others, are big wins, especially if you’re more introverted.

Hoy me acuesto así

Hoy me acuesto triste

Hoy me acuesto llorando

Hoy me acuesto, con un sabor amargo.

Porque de tan dulce día, he quedado empalagado

Inadequacy

There are many journeys that i have enjoyed,
some across the country and some very local.
On highways, gravel and pugdundees,
on car, bus…

A Visit with Robert Lillegard: Creating Content That Connects in Our Digital Age

Robert Lillegard is a freelance writer, entrepreneur and founder of Be Our Guest, a results-driven PR firm. We first met after a presentation he made at a Soecial Media Breakfast here in the…

Writing: Preventing Writer’s Block — Viagra For The Scribe

Prolific book author shares his tips on how to PREVENT writer’s block

How To Finally Launch Your New Enterprise Afraid, Once And For All

Types of blockchains

The blockchain is the key technology for the cryptocurrency. It can be mainly categorized into two types according to the…

To induce and derive empathy comes from exposing ones vulnerability and showing compassion.

It takes courage to stand metaphorically naked, all flaws exposed, for the world to see.

But by doing so, we show our humanity, our beauty, our collective struggle.

Surround Drown

Five Summers 7/15

No man’s an island, i know
but there’s a whole lotta water around me
my feet stuck in…