Learn to Become a Phenomenal Storyteller with Pixar's 22 Writing Rules Retrospective: Building a $3K per Month Blog in 143 Days As many of may very well know my team launched a new blog called WP Daily back in December of last year. This blog was our attempt to provide more value to the WordPress community that we all loved and also fill in an obvious gap in the industry at large. Our first post was December 1, 2012 and 143 days later, on April 22, 2013 we started monetizing and sold out nearly all our original stock overnight. A few weeks later we established our baseline (direct sales) offering (had a pre-sold list demanding us to increase quantity) and found the property to be grossing in excess of $3,000 / month. Annualized this property could easy sustain a person as a full-time writer for the blog. At the very least it began contributing directly to the bottom-line for 8BIT and made the continued investment of time and slots on the product development roadmap much more attractive and reasonable. Not bad for a blog that had existed for less than 5 months (4 months, 22 days to be exact). Ron… Ron! Growing…
6 add-on per trasformare Google Drive in un ufficio Ormai è chiara la mia passione per Google Drive. Mi permette di creare dei testi e dei fogli di calcolo in un attimo, senza installare programmi sul computer. E mi offre uno spazio gratuito nel quale archiviare i documenti in totale sicurezza. Mi permette, soprattutto, di condividere documenti con i miei collaboratori e di concordare le modifiche ai testi con un comodo sistema di commenti e notifiche via email. Google Drive è l’applicazione definitiva, perfetta, irrinunciabile. Anzi, per adattarla alle tue esigenze. Charts Iniziamo con un’applicazione che farà la felicità di chi lavora ogni giorno con tabelle e statistiche. Come funziona? MindMeister Il sogno di tutti gli appassionati del genere mindmap: questo tool ti permette di trasformare una lista puntata in una mappa mentale. Gliffy La tua attività ha bisogno di un programma per creare diagrammi, wireframe, mappa del sito e grafici? Hightlighting Tool Come funziona? Table of contents Track change
5 Philippine mysteries for Sherlock to solve What would the great detective say about white ladies, taxi crime, and Anne Curtis? FAVORITE SLEUTH. What mysteries would you like Sherlock to solve? MANILA, Philippines – Sherlock fans around the world are currently in the midst of a delight-induced stupor, following the premiere episode of the hotly anticipated 3rd season. BBC One's modern take on the beloved classic is inspiring a renewed interest in the detective, as well as in the actor who plays him, the wildly popular Benedict Cumberbatch. He and Martin Freeman, who plays Dr. In the spirit of the new season, here are 5 mysteries based right here in the Philippines that we think Sherlock would chew up and spit out like the proverbial hound from Baskerville: Warning: Spoilers for those who haven't seen the first and second seasons Sherlock. 1. Will glancing at the rearview mirror of your car reveal the terrifying sight of a ghostly lady in white? 2. Who's telling the truth? Conflicting statements wouldn't do much to deter Sherlock. 3.
The do-it-yourself RRSP portfolio Robin Glover wanted to expand his investment portfolio beyond the funds offered by his financial adviser. So after hours of online research and numerous trips to the bookstore, the 39-year-old Vancouver real estate developer sat down in front of his computer and opened a self-directed RRSP account with Toronto-based Questrade Inc. “Our financial adviser is excellent, but she represents a limited number of funds,” says Mr. Glover, who is married and has an infant child. “So we decided that we would maintain the investments we have with her and supplement that with self-directed RRSPs.” Designed as trust accounts that can hold a variety of investments – including mutual funds, guaranteed investment certificates, bonds and exchange-traded funds – self-directed RRSPs have become a popular retirement savings vehicle for many Canadians. “Anecdotally, we’re seeing a move toward self-directed RRSPs,” Mr. Another advantage to do-it-yourself RRSPs? Special to The Globe and Mail
Guida a Wordpress per Principianti | writing rules to follow How to Make a Single-Bucket Self-Water Regulated Vegatable Planter by Jake Robinson I originally made my own two-bucket self watering, self feeding vegetable planter. They work quiet well, however, after some thought I have designed a single bucket system without sacrificing the watering feature that a two bucket system offers. In a two bucket system the bottom bucket is where the water is stored for the plant. I have redesigned this system to allow the use of a single bucket which then saves time, labor and material. Here are some of the advantages of this type of system. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Guida spericolata alla scrittura per il web Perché una guida spericolata? Perché in un solo post, lungo 2617 parole, potrete leggere tutto quello che c’è da sapere sulla scrittura online, quanto meno per iniziare. Alla fine del post, se siete digiuni di scrittura per il web, non diventerete web copywriter provetti, ovviamente, ma avrete conosciuto le basi della scrittura per il web. Pronti per iniziare? La teoria prima della pratica: cosa scrivere Non voglio parlare di quanto sia importante leggere per scrivere, perché lo sapete, lo dicono tutti, perfino Stephen King. Ricerca e documentazione Per creare contenuti bisogna studiare: proprio così. La ricerca delle fonti mi dà un doppio vantaggio: mi permette di aggiornarmi sui temi che mi appassionanomi dà idee per scrivere articoli La documentazione è un aspetto fondamentale per qualsiasi tipo di scrittura, a maggior ragione per chi si occupa di copywriting e contenuti. Selezionate le vostre fonti Mappe mentali e scaletta La pratica dopo la teoria: come scrivere Quanto scrivere? elemento 1
Scrivener Hybrid Outlining By J. A. Marlow Copyright © 2009 by J. A. Marlow, All Rights Reserved Outlining styles differ among authors, varying from none, to extremely minimalistic, to highly detailed. As I’ve been asked repeatedly how I outline and with what program, In this article I hope to share a few of the tidbits I’ve learned along the way using the writing program called Scrivener ( Note: Potential alternatives to Scrivener, which is Mac only, are SuperNotecard ( for planning and outlining and Liquid Story Binder ( for writing and organizing. Outlines Outlines are very individual to the writer and the book. For the outlining itself, we’ll be using Scrivener’s virtual corkboard and index cards. The Scene Outline Make sure you have access to the Binder (click the far left icon in the toolbar if you don’t see it). How do I define a scene? The Phase Outline Estimating Word Counts I learned my lesson.
An Inexpensive, Hail Proof, PVC Pipe Greenhouse | Alberta Home Gardening I’ve finally built my greenhouse for my new garden. It’s a twenty by twelve foot hoop-style greenhouse with wooden ends and is covered with 11 mil woven poly. This greenhouse has some pretty cool features that I really appreciate, and I think you will too. First of all, the poly I used to cover it is fantastic. It is a super tough woven poly that I got from Northern Greenhouse out of Manitoba. Secondly, to eliminate wear and tear on the plastic, I covered edges of the wooden ends with copper pipe insulation. Thirdly, it was very inexpensive and easy to build. Being so late I only got a single row of tomatoes down one side, but next year I’ll be bursting at the seams once again! Use wooden ends instead of plastic – and cover the ends with pipe insulation.Use 11 mil woven poly instead of the 6 mil.Put the PVC pipes on the inside of the frame rather than on the outside Other than that, you should be able to follow all the other steps. Enjoy this post? Be Sociable, Share!
Web writing - www.parlochiaro.it Web writing Il web writing è la disciplina che aiuta a progettare «contenuti» per il web. I contenuti per il web sono l'unione di testi, ipertesti, immagini, grafica, suoni. Gli articoli seguenti parlano di web writing, ma anche di web usability (la disciplina che aiuta a progettare correttamente un sito web) e di norme generali per la redazione di testi. Articoli sul web writing Articoli sulla web usability Web usability: che cos'è Web usability: le regole Web usability: gli errori da evitare Progettare una pagina web efficace Homepage: come progettarla Intranet: che cos'è, come si progetta Siti sulla web usability Libri sulla web usability Articoli sulla redazione di testi (norme generali) Sigle e abbreviazioni L'allitterazione Il corsivo Figure retoriche Frasi leggibili: indici di leggibilità Maiuscole e minuscole Vocabolario di base Parole straniere La punteggiatura Virgolette
10 Elements of the Intellectual Thriller Books Being a species of the genus known as Bestselling Novel, the Intellectual Thriller is not necessarily intellectual, nor is it much of a thriller, but I have chosen to use this particular denomination since calling it by its real name – which is Kind of Predictable Story about a Mystery that Involves Members of the Academia and Has an Actually Kind of Meh Ending – would obviously require typing too many letters over and over again. The Intellectual Thriller can take on several forms. First and foremost, there is The Intellectual Thriller with a Name-Dropping Title. Here, the mystery surrounds a Prestigious Historical Person. The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl are examples of such Intellectual Thrillers, along with another book whose title I choose not to mention, assuming that everyone is already tired of hearing it. Other Intellectual Thrillers, like Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteen Tale or Scarlett Thomas’ The End of Mr. Element: The Mentor