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Helium - Where Knowledge Rules

Helium - Where Knowledge Rules

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contentcurrent This ContentCurrent User Agreement, (the "Agreement") is entered into by and between the company or individual specified during this online registration process at ContentCurrent.com ("User") and Echo Prospects, the parent company that manages the website ContentCurrent.com, a California limited liability corporation with its principal place of business at 984 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94103, U.S.A. ("Echo") for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged. Capitalized terms are defined throughout the Agreement and in Section 13. How To Drive Yourself Crazy as a Writer Here are four simple ways to drive yourself crazy (or to drive other writers & readers crazy!): 1. Think the very first book you’ve ever written is ready for publication. This is a very hard truth for beginning writers to swallow.

The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office” My neighbor introduced me to The Office back in 2005. Since then, I’ve watched every episode of both the British and American versions. I’ve watched the show obsessively because I’ve been unable to figure out what makes it so devastatingly effective, and elevates it so far above the likes of Dilbert and Office Space. Until now, that is. Now, after four years, I’ve finally figured the show out. The Office is not a random series of cynical gags aimed at momentarily alleviating the existential despair of low-level grunts. How Do You Know You’re Growing as a Writer? I’m not sure how to open this post. I thought about playing the simile card and saying something about how becoming a better writer is a lot like becoming a better other thing – a better architect, a better juggler, a better OPI color namer, a better human. That would have been entirely true. And entirely boring. I also considered manufacturing a conversation between a beginning writer and a seasoned writer that could foreshadow the post’s inevitable wisdom.

100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access « mary & mac design Universities house an enormous amount of information and their libraries are often the center of it all. You don’t have to be affiliated with any university to take advantage of some of what they have to offer. From digital archives, to religious studies, to national libraries, these university libraries from around the world have plenty of information for you.

Ten rules for writing fiction Elmore Leonard: Using adverbs is a mortal sin 1 Never open a book with weather. If it's only to create atmosphere, and not a charac­ter's reaction to the weather, you don't want to go on too long. The reader is apt to leaf ahead look­ing for people. LimitLaws.html Limit of a Constant Function Let be a constant.

How to Write a Manuscript - 5 Tips You Need to Know Getting started on any writing project is always the toughest. For years I talked about turning an idea I had from college into a novel so amazing that Oprah would beg to have me on—probably twice! I had notes for the novel in my head and, once in a blue moon, I’d actually sit down to try to write the damn thing. Levels of TeX A friend asked us once, “Should I use LaTeX or MiKTeX?” In various guises, this is a common question, seemingly innocent, but actually betraying a fundamental confusion about the levels of operation in the TeX world. As a further confusion, the word “TeX” can be used to refer to any of a myriad of items at any level.

READING IS THE INHALE, WRITING IS THE EXHALE: developing writer’s intuition reading is sexy Reading came first. It always does. Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale. Getting Real Here are the 16 chapters and 91 essays that make up the book. Introduction chapter 1 What is Getting Real?A smaller, faster, better way to build software About 37signalsOur small team creates simple, focused software Caveats, disclaimers, and other preemptive strikesResponses to some complaints we hear The Starting Line chapter 2 Build LessUnderdo your competition What's Your Problem?

The Stinkyink Guide to Publishing Your Book It used to be that getting a book to market was incredibly difficult. You either went through a publisher (good luck), or printed it yourself (not financially viable). This left many a budding author with an unattainable dream, but no longer! Ray Bradbury Gives 12 Pieces of Writing Advice to Young Authors (2001) Like fellow genre icon Stephen King, Ray Bradbury has reached far beyond his established audience by offering writing advice to anyone who puts pen to paper. (Or keys to keyboard; "Use whatever works," he often says.) In this 2001 keynote address at Point Loma Nazarene University's Writer's Symposium By the Sea, Bradbury tells stories from his writing life, all of which offer lessons on how to hone the craft.

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