Susan Haven
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Cal Newport’s latest book, A World Without Email, hit my kindle on its release date, and, good Newportian that I am, I have pretty much flown through it. I’m not even a knowledge worker at my day job, and I found a plethora of great advice in this book. We citizens of 2021 all know…
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It’s a late Tuesday Tool Time. Silly day job, getting in the way of my daily postings! But better late than never and I would not want to deprive my (checking the count) 34 followers from getting a new tool review today. Today’s Tool is the humble index card. It’s what we old people used…
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Next weekend, the United States will enter into what I think is one of the worst ideas ever: Daylight Savings Time. DST is where we all set our clocks ahead an hour, so instead of waking up to sunrises and birds, we wake up to dark. Supposedly, this “saves” daylight and we can use it…
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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.” -Anne Lamott Here at the Story Factory, we value quantity over quality. More words, more hours, more stories. The goal is 52 stories at the end of the year. So far, we…
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It’s Tuesday, and on Tuesdays we take a peek at writing tools. Some are great, some not so much, but I am learning to be a craftsman, and the important thing about craft is the tool box. At least that is what Stephen King tells me. Today’s tools were a Christmas gift from my son.…
