As a business owner, you may be weighing your options on whether to invest in custom explainer videos or use a DIY explainer video software platform that provides ready-made templates, graphics, characters, and props, for creating explainer videos. Just so we’re clear, DIY software platforms are not a bad thing. In fact, if you’re the hands-on type, creating your […]
How to turn ideas into accomplishments before they curl up and die in your brain (an infographic)
Hello, awesome readers! You may be pleased to know that I almost titled this post “This blog post is about writing but since I don’t mention the word ‘writing’ in the post I’ve decided to mention ‘writing’ three times in the title.” You may also be pleased to know that I changed my mind at the […]
Black Lives Matter. Time to Wake Up.
Hey there, awesome readers! I’m not going to lie to you. I knew when I sat down to write this piece that it wasn’t going to be easy. What the hell do I know about racism? I’m a white woman living in what’s called a white supremist world. Something I don’t quite understand and yet […]
My contribution to the Book for the World: With Love, Comes Hope – Stories & Inspiration during the 2020 Pandemic
Hello, awesome readers! You good? Are you practicing the new religion of social distancing? Has this pandemic caused you to lose a piece of your mind? I was recently invited to contribute to an anthology of personal stories and experiences during Covid-19. Published by Acclaimed Books, all the proceeds are going to an international non-profit […]
Some thoughts on writing nonfiction and why you need a book proposal
Well hello there, awesome readers! This isn’t actually what I was planning to share with you when I sat down at my laptop today. My plan was to post a piece of writing that I wrote as a contribution to a larger project; a book for a not-for-profit organization. (I’ll get back to that later […]