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Fired Up! How a Kick in the Gut Got Me a New Career and a Self-Published Book

It’s not what life throws at you that matters. It’s what you do about it. When bad or unexpected things happen to us, what’s most important is what we do next. When I was 62 years old, I got laid off from my job. Hell… I was fired! I had…

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Fired Up! How a Kick in the Gut Got Me a New Career and a Self-Published Book
Fired Up! How a Kick in the Gut Got Me a New Career and a Self-Published Book
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5 Strategies to Monetize Your Writing

Discover more ways to make money writing. No matter how much time you devote to your writing, it makes sense to discover ways to monetize what you write. Doing so allows you to write more, publish more, and enjoy the fruits of your labor. For some, the ability to make money writing is their retirement plan. Our…

Monetization

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5 Strategies to Monetize Your Writing
5 Strategies to Monetize Your Writing
Monetization

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What a World-Class Actor Can Teach You About Writing…

And Finding Your Writing Sweet Spot Consider what you can learn about writing from an unexpected source — a world-class actor. In a recent review of the new mega-hit movie, Top Gun Maverick, John Nolte writes, “Tom Cruise is a star because he understands stardom in the same way John Wayne and Errol Flynn and Gene…

Writing Challenge

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What a World-Class Actor Can Teach You About Writing…
What a World-Class Actor Can Teach You About Writing…
Writing Challenge

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I Drove a Cab from Hell and Lived to Write about It

We were driving over the Mystic River Bridge, when the woman directly behind me reached over the seat and put her hands over my eyes! Author’s note: Unlike other post card stories, this one costed me a fortune in postage and too many post cards. Also, unlike other post card stories, hell… This one is true! — You learn a lot when driving a cab. Sometimes you wish you hadn’t. I drove a Yellow Cab…

Taxi

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Driving a Cab from Hell, and Living to Talk about It
Driving a Cab from Hell, and Living to Talk about It
Taxi

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Rocky’s Moral Compass

How one three-letter word changed his life There’s a great scene in the Rocky II movie where Rocky is facing his own reluctance and lost ambition about the upcoming match against Apollo Creed, especially after Adrian, his wife, is hospitalized. He lacks moral certainty. Morality and the knowledge that you are right, that the course you have…

Morality

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Rocky’s Moral Compass
Rocky’s Moral Compass
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·Nov 14

Dollar Dog

We got the dog for a dollar! Then we found out why. They didn’t charge us sales tax and seemed eager to be rid of the mutt. The dollar gave the sellers official documents — a bill sale and a copy of the receipt that proved the dog was no longer theirs. We brought the dog home. It immediately chased our cat…

Dogs

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Dollar Dog
Dollar Dog
Dogs

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Sep 30

Time Tangle

We’re caught in a cosmic time tangle from which there is no escape. We are creatures of time, from birth to death. Yet when we die, our atoms live forever. We are forever creatures after death (and even before birth). Yup… We are cosmic time travelers. So here’s what to…

Time Travel

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Time Tangle
Time Tangle
Time Travel

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Aug 6

How to Turn Your Writing into a Business

Here are three insightful articles with detailed, actionable information to help you monetize your writing. 1. How To Create a Profitable Writing Business That Reflects Your Unique Personality by Jon Brosio “Think about this for a moment… You have access to the internet, you’re able to read, you’re living in the most prosperous time in human history, you’ve been able to build a community of people…

Writing Life

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How to Turn Your Writing into a Business
How to Turn Your Writing into a Business
Writing Life

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Aug 6

The Mojo Motel

The Mojo Motel Google told me to go left, but I took a right. I drove along the old highway, enjoying the lack of traffic. Soon I was driving along parts unknown. Google Maps seemed confused. It kept telling me to make a U-turn. Up ahead was an old motel. …

Travel Writing

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The Mojo Motel
The Mojo Motel
Travel Writing

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Jul 22

Your Mind

A marvelous device for thinking and… It’s what you think, dream, and plan with. It’s your mind. There are various schools of thought about where it is. But for my money, it’s between your ears. Your brain is what processes thought, all the stuff that clatters and bangs around in your head. You’re a combination of…

Thoughts And Feelings

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Your Mind
Your Mind
Thoughts And Feelings

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