Posts tagged writing
A Free Short Story About The Middle East
( tl;dr – wrote a short story, you can download it here) I’ve lived both in the Far and Middle East. Both experiences left strong memories, traces, impressions. And I noticed very early that if I wanted to convey any of my experiences to others in writing, an autobiographical account wouldn’t cut it. Short Fiction…
Experiments In Collaborative ePublishing
40 days ago I posted here on this blog that I wanted to try something different for the publication of my next ebook: Instead of going over the text myself over and over again, fixing broken syntax and hunting for typos (as an independent publisher I don’t have a room full of type-monkeys, unfortunately) I was…
The Lost Art Of Writing Letters
“Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.” The above quote…
18 WordPress Shortcuts That Will Help You To Write More And Click Less
Have you ever looked over the shoulder of a photoshop-wiz? The best of them never even touch the upper menu with their mouse cursor but accomplish everything with esoteric short-cut functions that (sometimes) include intricate finger-ballet and often look like being dangerously close to muscle-cramp! But it’s not just Photoshop. The productivity of any creative…
What I’ve Learned From 10 Years Of Writing & Independent Publishing
It’s been a long time since the writing bug first bit me. Before I started blogging seriously, I had always been writing fiction. In 2nd grade I wrote my first short-story. (It was about a man who befriends a robot and subsequently quits his nerve-wracking office-job because now the robot does everything from cleaning the…
Three Quick Ways To Turn WordPress Into An Awesome Website Builder
In my recent book “How To Blog: Build An Audience, Boost Your Traffic and Kick-Start Your Business Without Selling Your Soul” I talk a lot about why WordPress is one of the best solutions for running your own professional blog. But did you know that WordPress is not just a powerful system for blogs but…