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5 Important Questions To Ask Yourself Before Writing A Book
Writing can be a strange profession to undertake. In some ways, almost anyone can do it - every literate person, at least, is able to...
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Memoirs of a Ryokō-sha
The scene at the end of Memoirs of a Geisha (the film, not the book) where we see a flashback of the main character Sayuri - when she was...
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Meet Miro: My Secret Weapon For Book Plotting Via Digital Pinboards
Originally created for helping work teams collaborate for better workflows, I've found a digital software tool that can be used for...
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Georgia On My Mind: Batumi, Eurasia's Pearl of the Black Sea
Sometime during the past few years, Batumi - a beautiful coastal town in Georgia, where the beaches are lined with pebbles and the air is...
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The Power Of Sound In Ritual - And How It Can Help You Write Your Book
In the 1890s, a Russian physiologist named Ivan Pavlov was conducting a series of experiments on dogs to research their salivation in...
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Finding Life In The House Of Bones
I used to paint - a lot. When I was a fresh university graduate in Boston, many nights after I got home from work, whether I was sad,...
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Binaural Beats: What Are They, And Do They Actually Help You Focus?
In the 1800s, Prussian physicist and meteorologist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered a new phenomenon: that playing a sound heard in one...
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12 Things Surfing Can Teach You About Life
When it comes to the thalassophile's good life - living in boardies and bikinis by the beach, chilling out with an acoustic guitar,...
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Confessions Of A Half-Asian Tiger Cub
In 2001, a book written by American author, lawyer, and Yale Law School professor Amy Chua called "Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother" made...
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