Tag: Mei Li
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Laura’s Three-Layer Cake Approach to a Tasty Career
Today, Laura Shin is in freelance writing bliss. She contributes regularly at Forbes and is author of the ebook “The Millennial Game Plan: Career And Money Secrets To Succeed In Today’s World.” Her articles have appeared in the likes of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Audubon, Slate, Yoga…
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Writing Challenge: Deepen Your Characters With This Technique
What makes chocolate the darling of the dessert world? What separates it from mere confectionary? My theory: chocolate doesn’t pander. It has the audacity to be bitter. It’s exactly that undercurrent of bitterness that swathes it in the complexity and range so worthy of food faddists and traditionalists alike. Its contradictions give it the depth…
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How One Writer Got Paid to Develop a Novel
To get answers for the Fund Your Passion Project series, I turned to Shruti Swamy. Her passion project? A fiction novel exploring themes of blindness. And as the 2012 W.K. Rose Fellow, she got paid $50,000 to work on it. Here, she spills on the habits that got her living her dream. MY WRITING REGIMEN…
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Battling Your Limiting Beliefs
Fiction writer Yuri Tanaka* thinks she’s nearing the end of her novel. When she’s busy being mom to her two kids or working part-time to support her family, she’s slaved away at this novel. Yet its completion actually worries more than thrills her. “I think I’m actually afraid of finishing my novel,” she says. “When…
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Four Ways to Bulk Up Those Writing Muscles
Day one of returning to my novel after a three-week hiatus. I can’t wait. No excuses. Novel-writing is ON. This is how the day goes. 8:30 a.m. Hit the snooze button one last time. 9:00 a.m. Ooh, breakfast time. 10:00 a.m. Sign up for dubious offer in email inbox. 10:15 a.m. See that friends got published. Have to give…
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Introducing: The Fund Your Passion Project Series
Anyone else take the road less traveled by… and then run out of gas money? I quit my steady if not lucrative job to go back to school at the ripe old age of 38. I sat through classes with twenty-year-olds. I realized with age comes not so much wisdom as way slower brain processing speeds…