A good friend of mine, a lifelong bachelor, once told me he knew how to cook just one dish really well: grilled salmon with a rich, homemade red pepper sauce. The dish never failed to impress his guests, and with good reason: it was scrumptious. If you’ve ever tried to create a sauce from scratch, you know it requires three basic steps: Select the most delicious ingredients Mix them up and apply heat Simmer until you've reduced the mixture to about half of what you started ... VIEW POST
Three Things You Can’t Do Simultaneously
People talk a lot about multi-tasking and how the most efficient, productive people out there have perfected the art of pursuing several activities at once. But have they, really? Apparently not. According to recent brain research, multi-tasking is not only almost impossible to do, but it can actually damage your brain. Check this article out from Forbes Magazine. So, I took this idea to the extreme and identified three things I just don’t think you can do simultaneously. Two are physical ... VIEW POST
Is Your Editor Holding You Back? A History Lesson
Recently I watched the 2016 film “Genius,” which is based on A. Scott Berg’s biography of Maxwell Perkins, called Max Perkins: Editor of Genius. (Berg is a Pulitzer Prize winner and his Perkins biography won the National Book Award). You can check it out here. The film and book explore the often rocky process of turning creative fiction into a marketable product. Perkins, for those who don’t know the name, was the legendary editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons during the first half of the ... VIEW POST
12 Blockbuster Writing Tips from Author Conor Kostick at the 2016 Dublin Writers Conference
I spent the month of June in Ireland, at the end of which I attended the 2016 Dublin Writers Conference, put on by Laurence O’Brien and the crew at booksgosocial.com. It was a lovely three days’ worth of inspiring and informative sessions put on by successful writers, instructors and publishers. I’ll be sharing some of the writing tips I learned there (and at this month’s RWA Convention in San Diego) in the next few blog posts. The first batch is from Conor Kostick, an author and ... VIEW POST
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