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Daily Routines of 25 Great Writers
From Kazuo Ishiguro to Toni Morrison
In this short e-book, I have compiled the writing routines of some of the best writers out there. In this cloud of intelligent minds, you will find Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, Booker Prize clinchers, and New York Times bestselling authors. This book will show you countless ways by which you can revive your writing routine and get more done in less time. Enjoy this piece and share it with others.
Writing
The Ultimate Editing Checklist for Every Writer
The Ultimate Editing Checklist for Every Writer 05 FEBRUARY, 2018 Samuel Osho Editing is the magic button that can make or mar your work; it can show the beauty of your research or reveal the ugly skeletons of your laxity. The choice is yours! How often do you return...
7 Insightful Reasons Why You Should Keep a Writing Journal
7 Insightful Reasons Why You Should Keep a Writing Journal 21 JANUARY, 2018 Samuel Osho Autobiographies are hewn out of accumulated sediments of daily journals and presented either in form of a compelling documentary movie or an inspiring prose. You don't need to be a...
Top 10 Writing Lessons of 2017 (Updated 2020)
Top 10 Writing Lessons from 2017 17 DECEMBER, 2017 Samuel Osho Oh! My good friend, the year 2017, is waving goodbye but its departure is never without the blessing of a diary filled with memorable events. From the swearing-in of Donald Trump to the death of Don...
Meet the World’s 10 Highest-Paid Authors in 2017
Meet the World's 10 Highest-Paid Authors in 2017 10 DECEMBER, 2017 Samuel Osho Writing is a tough job. The ubiquity of writing has made it an indispensable tool for content creation in any space. To communicate an idea, it is either you speak or you write. Writing is...
How to Use Mind Mapping for Your Next Writing Project
How to Use Mind Mapping for Your Next Writing Project 04 DECEMBER, 2017 Samuel OshoIn 2008, when I fell in love with reading, I was scared of voluminous books. Have you seen the Complete Sherlock Holmes book authored by Arthur Conan Doyle? I love crime novels and I...
The Daily Routines of 10 Famous Writers: From Toni Morrison to Kazuo Ishiguro
The Daily Routines of 10 Famous Writers: From Toni Morrison to Kazuo Ishiguro 19 NOVEMBER, 2017 Samuel Osho It could be hard to have the bird of inspiration perch daily in your garden of letters. When do you search for the lyrical whispers of ingenuity and...
How Active Reading Changed My Life: 7 Things That Happened To Me
How Active Reading Changed My Life: 7 Things That Happened To Me 12 NOVEMBER, 2017 Samuel Osho You have heard that readers are leaders. You have heard that reading makes you intelligent. If you are a public speaker, you must have been told that reading makes you a...
How to Shatter Writer’s Block: 10 Tips That Work
How to Shatter Writer's Block: 10 Tips That Work 29 OCTOBER, 2017 Samuel Osho Staring at a blank page all day can be very devastating. You have no clue about where to start your article. It's a painful ordeal; a condition that imprisons the mind from grasping the...
Six Golden Rules That Will Change Your Writing Forever
Six Golden Rules That Will Change Your Writing Forever 15 OCTOBER, 2017 Samuel Osho Writing is a craft, which means it can be studied, understood, and learnt. It's natural for you to feel inadequate after reading the works of some excellent writers. But here is the...
Personal Development
7 Fascinating Life Lessons From the Eagle
7 Fascinating Life Lessons from the Eagle 07 MAY, 2018 Samuel Osho In centuries of human existence, a bird of significant strength has inspired a lot of people. It is one of the largest birds in the world, the Eagle – a symbol of bravery, courage, power, strength, and...
15 Powerful Quotes from Mark Twain
15 Powerful Quotes from Mark Twain 18 APRIL, 2018 Samuel Osho If you check the annals of history and carefully search for giants in English literature, you will easily come across a phenomenal writer from America - Mark Twain. Twain's humor can crack your ribs even on...
On Martin Luther King Jr: Your Dreams Are Still Valid
On Martin Luther King Jr: Your Dreams Are Still Valid 4 APRIL, 2018 Samuel Osho Few months before Theresa May moved into 10 Downing Street, a friend told me about his dream of securing a scholarship for a course in the United Kingdom. His academic records were in...
On Stephen Hawking: Tough Times Never Last But Tough People Do
On Stephen Hawking: Tough Times Never Last But Tough People Do 20 MARCH, 2018 Samuel Osho In 2012, I got a weird look from one of my mentors when he realized that I knew next to nothing about Stephen Hawking. It is in semblance with the shock that greets you when "a...
How to Crush Procrastination: 10 Tips That Work
How to Crush Procrastination: 10 Tips That Work 05 MARCH, 2018 Samuel Osho Time is running out, we don't have control over it and we don't even know how much we have left on earth. Time is so expensive; no one can afford to buy a second when death knocks or keep a...
15 Inspiring Quotes from John Maxwell on Success and Leadership
15 Inspiring Quotes from John Maxwell on Success and Leadership 12 FEBRUARY, 2018 Samuel Osho Leadership is often regarded as a mesh of complex theories and a web of mysteries until Maxwell came on the scene. American author, John C. Maxwell, demystifies the...
Beta Life Series
Beta Life Series – How to Reject Rejection
Beta Life SeriesHow to Reject Rejection Samuel OshoWhen Colonel Harlan Sanders hit the streets with his pressure cooker and unique recipe for cooking Southern fried chicken, he was rejected 300 times before he found someone that believed in his dream. A testimony of...
Beta Life Series – Go Back to the Basics
Beta Life SeriesGo Back to the Basics Samuel OshoWhy bother about the union between a noun and an adjective when you don't know what a verb looks like? How can you create lovely sounds when you can't differentiate musical notes? There is a reason why we started our...
Beta Life Series – Why Your Passion Matters
Beta Life SeriesWhy Your Passion Matters Samuel Osho A few years ago, "a passionate writer" dropped this question on Twitter for J.K. Rowling: "What if the passionate writer is broke and can't afford a MacBook Air?" And here comes Rowling's iconic response: "I wrote...
Beta Life – Find Yourself
Beta Life SeriesFind YourselfSamuel OshoWhat makes me happy? What am I good at? What things do I value in life? If you have perfect answers to these questions, then this is not for you. In this pool of information overload, how do you prepare yourself for the...
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