Category: Productivity

Seth Godin – Life, the Internet, and Everything

SEO guru Seth Godin on using our creative skills to give more to society than “stupid entertainments.” This might make you mad, but the dood’s an expert on productivity so we’re counting on what you watch and listen to in the video below making you a more profound creator as well as an angry one. (Let us know if we’re right or wrong, okay?)

This one’s brought to us by The On Being Project. Because Being is better than Nothingness, yeah? (Um, that’s an old existentialist in joke for which we pretend to apologize.)

Is It Time to Rekindle Your Passion for Writing?

Last week LB  tweeted his “secret” for regaining the thrill of writing (assuming, of course, that you’ve lost it. As is his wont, it was simple and direct:

No longer feeling the thrill of writing? Try using a yellow pad. Writing by hand changes the way your brain experiences the process. Enjoy the words flowing from your fingertips.

Sometimes, however, writers need something more, well, more philosophical. So we searched the web and found this most helpful piece on one of our fave sites, Bang2Write.Com. Hope it helps! read article

Marketing tips for reaching your first readers

Nathan Bransford, TVWriter™’s favorite publishing know-it-all has a video for us this week, in which he reaches out to his fave book-marketing expert David Gaughran.

So sit back, relax, and watch this scintillating discussion of why and how you should use digital ads to reach new readers and other (and slightly less daunting) SEO topics.

Nathan has a transcript of this entire convo for those of us who are too impatient to watch and listen. You can find it right here. read article

HOW TO GET STARTED WRITING THAT BOOK

by Caimh McDonnell

LB’S NOTE: As of this particular moment (as opposed to that non-particular moment, I suppose), Caimh McDonnell (“comedian, writer, Irishman,” as his blog tells all who discover it) is my favorite novelist because of his ability to make genre detective stories read like literary fiction.

So imagine my surprise when I discovered that his skill is about as far from accidental as can be. Dood not only knows exactly what he’s doing, he’s happy to share that knowledge with the rest of us grunts.

So listen, listen good. No, not with your ears. He’s a writer, dammit, not an AI voice. Anyway: read article

How to Stop Overthinking Everything and Find Peace of Mind

We’ve said it before (most recently here), and now we’re saying it again: The dreaded overthink keeps rearing its ugly head in all our lives. Here’s another helpful look at the problem and, more importantly, how to solve it.

How to Stop Yourself from Overthinking Everything
by Thorin Klosowski

We all overthink aspects of our lives. Whether it’s decisions, regrets, self-worth, or general worries about the future, we’re so often stuck inside our own heads that it feels like there’s no way out. Here’s how to quit overthinking everything and move on. read article