I love Star Trek, so I thought I would make a post centered entirely around my favourite character – Mr Spock! The tips are the same you can find anywhere else, they have just been dressed up to make them more memorable 🙂 1) Vulcan Nerve Pinch One Person at…
Tired of being rejected by publishers? Remember Frank Herbert An Article by Chris Robley I was listening to the Writer’s Almanac Podcast this morning and heard that it’s the birthday of Frank Herbert, author of the science fiction masterpiece Dune Herbert is just one name on a long list of writers who found success after…
When is FREE the right price? An Article by Chris Robley Last week at the end of an Apple product launch event, the band U2 came on stage and played a song. They then surprised the world by announcing that every single iTunes customer (500 million people) already had a copy of the band’s…
Data from the ISS-based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment supports the idea that dark matter consists of the invisible particles called weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs. The universe seems to be full of dark matter, yet no one knows what it’s made of. The best guess is that invisible particles called weakly interacting massive particles,…
Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya by Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube This book is chock full of site plans and photos, artifacts and loads of maps. This is a highly informative work considering that most of Maya history comes from the Glyphs/writing left on buildings and monuments….
This is what you do when you have writer’s block….. You either spend a lot of time making an image about it, or looking for one about it. Just go back and read my earlier article on procrastination… I know what I have to write, its just getting down and doing it. So maybe its…
Evidence of contagious yawning in chimps, dogs and now wolves suggests that the behavior is linked to a mammalian sense of empathy By Helen Thompson SMITHSONIAN.COM AUGUST 27, 2014 Chimps do it, birds do it, even you and I do it. Once you see someone yawn, you are compelled to do the same. Now it seems…
I was tagged by author Hiram Crespo who wrote the fascinating book ‘Tending the Epicurean Garden’, who asked me the following question: What motivated you to write and then self publish your first book ‘The Kalarthri’? All my life I have wanted to write books and stories. But I have never had the courage to…
We, ladies and gentleman are now going to try something new. It’s good to experiment once and a while and to try new and exciting things. I have been invited to be a part of something that we are now calling ‘Blogroll Tag’. And I have been chosen to start the ball rolling so to…
Hello Everyone – I hope you are all doing well? As well as writing, I absolutely love to read! Here are some books in various genre’s that I have read and enjoyed. If you are looking for something to read, then maybe you might find something in this month’s recommendations list 🙂 -Hayley NB:Genre’s will…
Posted by Laurie 🙂 How do you deal with the jealousy you feel when you listen to authors at writers’ conferences or read Pulitzer-prize winning magazine articles in the New York Times? If you’re not a writer jealous of other writers, I need your advice. One surefire tip for dealing with jealousy is to get…
by DANA FARRINGTON For the main article, click here A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky over the Lovell Radio Telescope in Holmes Chapel, U.K., on Aug. 13, 2013. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The annual Perseid meteor shower will streak the sky tonight. The best time to watch is between 3 and 4 a.m., for all…
