📝 This Week’s Goal: Find one way to update your writing space to reduce distraction and inspire creativity. In a year when most of us were confined to our homes, our writing environments might have changed quite a bit. Where coffee shops and coworking spaces may have once been bastions of inspiration, life is different […]
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When we spend our lives attempting to control the stories that other people tell themselves about us, we slowly watch ourselves sink and constrict into fractions of the people we are meant to be. When we do this, we are essentially making choices from someone else’s perspective, from a bird’s eye view of who we […]
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SAVE $300: The 256GB base model of HP’s 15-inch Pavilion Laptop usually starts at $649.99 (depending on the color), but you can score it on sale for as low as $349.99 this Black Friday. The vast majority of laptops we’ve seen on sale at Amazon and Best Buy this Black Friday have been fancy-shmancy models […]
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For some people, freedom is the consistency of being employed somewhere, and for anyone who has ever struggled to feel secure in their lives, a job like that is a miracle. For some people, freedom is working remotely after years of hour-long commutes. For some people, freedom is living out of a backpack. For some […]
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Anything and everything for a story, morals and decency be damned, right? The dark side of journalism has shown its ugly head again recently after the New York Post revealed the identity of a paramedic who has been sharing “racy” photos and videos on OnlyFans just to survive. According to the 23-year-old paramedic, the NYP […]
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Writing letters to Santa is a time-honored tradition. Children all over the world lay down their wishes and desires, and hope to find shiny new presents underneath their Christmas trees. But 2020 turned the world upside down, and the ongoing pandemic has impacted children no less than adults—and this year’s letters to Santa reflect that […]
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Whatever you write, you want to get your thoughts across in a clear and effective way — that’s the first thing you need to know about how to improve writing skills. If you’re a novelist, you don’t want awkward word choices or repetitive sentence structures to distract your readers from the story. As a freelancer, […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Give your writing an SEO makeover. How much time do you spend on Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, when writing? Last week’s Submission Rules and Style Guide update include some general SEO guidelines. These repeat Medium’s title and subtitle guidelines and encourage internal and external links throughout your story. When it comes to […]
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December, you devastate me yet again. Each glossy morning is met startled awake by a spine aching from the weight of yearning for something to curl against. There are dreams I wake from that leave me already spent for the day. The lucid kind in which I get to live out the fantasies wandering the […]
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Do you do most of your writing in Google Docs? From collaboration to easily checking word count in Google docs to its Suggest Edits feature, many writers rave about this free word processing software. (Here at The Write Life, we’re big fans of Google docs!) Since its emergence in 2014, Google Docs’ Suggest Edits feature […]
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