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Information Diet Plans: Not Your Ordinary “Atkins Diet”

Information Diet Plans: Not Your Ordinary “Atkins Diet”

Musing, not reviewing a book This isn’t a book review, but the ideas in the preface of The Information Diet excited me. Call [...]

Sep 8, 2012     No Comments
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Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Outliers: The Story of Success’

Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Outliers: The Story of Success’

This is a previously published blog post. Browse through the categories for other ways to feed your writing muse. I’ve [...]

Sep 1, 2012     No Comments
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Don’t Read This Unless You’re a Science Fiction Writer

Don’t Read This Unless You’re a Science Fiction Writer

Isaac Asimov. Arthur C. Clarke. Ray Bradbury. Robert Heinlen. Countless other SciFi writers have not only predicted the future but [...]

Oct 8, 2011     No Comments
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Feng Shui is Not Just Moving Furniture to the Other Side of the Room

Feng Shui is Not Just Moving Furniture to the Other Side of the Room

Constipated sentences make any reader feel, well...like doing something besides reading. The novel 'How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe' proves that writers can create a very readable book by doing the complete opposite as everyone else.

Jul 25, 2011     No Comments
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No, Winning Did Not Start With Charlie Sheen

No, Winning Did Not Start With Charlie Sheen

"Winning" started with Andrew Carnegie, not Charlie Sheen. Here are a few virtues and values you can use from the timeless best-seller, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'.  

Jun 23, 2011     No Comments
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