Passions
Writing
By Dennis Abrams With the exception of actually writing the book, the biggest challenge facing most first-time YA novelists is this: how do you get noticed and how do you get it read? The slush pile has largely gone the way of Maxwell Perkins and the three-martini lunch. Getting an agent to sell the work to a publisher is next to impossible unless you’ve already sold a work to a publisher. What’s an aspiring novelist to do? Look to the land down under.
Aspiring YA Novelist? Get Your Big Break in Australia
Short Stories: 10 Tips for Creative Writers
Posted by Dennis G. Jerz, on March 30th, 2011 Jerz > Writing > Creative >
Living the best possible life
How to Be a Positive Person, in Under 300 Words | zen habits
‘Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.’ ~Walt Whitman Post written by Leo Babauta . Follow me on twitter or identica . I’m a pretty positive person — I consider it one of the keys to the modest success I’ve had in creating new habits and achieving things in the last few years.
Nature
Spiritual & Zen
9 Mind-Bending Epiphanies That Turned My World Upside-Down | Raptitude.com
Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day life. But the major breakthroughs have come from a handful of insights that completely rocked my world and redefined reality forever. The world now seems to be a completely different one than the one I lived in about ten years ago, when I started looking into the mechanics of quality of life. It wasn’t the world (and its people) that changed really, it was how I thought of it.
Inspiring Websites
Hi friends! We are traveling home today from an amazing trip to New York. Here are a few photos that the four of us snapped with our iPhones...
A Beautiful Mess
Blog | 100 Websites You Should Know and Use
Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword.