How to Create a Zine With Your Photography – EyeEm – Medium
WITH OR WITHOUT INDESIGN
We can start with a letter size spread (8.5 x 11 inches/ 210 x 297 mm) which you can fold in half crosswise into a 5.5 x 8.5 inch/210x148.5 mm booklet. In this way, each sheet contains 4 pages. When deciding the number of pages for your zine ALWAYS count by 4’s. 4/8/12/16/20 etc…
The Art of Mindful Writing: How to Be Your Reader – Will Franks – Medium
The anxious writer is thinking of herself, but the calm writer is thinking of her readers. The calm writer is sensitive to the experience of her reader. And that is the gateway to clear and lucid writing.
To tap into this sensitivity, you can use the following exercise: being your reader. It will allow you to literally read what you write, as you write it. It is a very effective mindfulness trigger.
The whole act of writing becomes far less driven by “I am trying to write something good”, to reading your words through another’s eyes, as you write them. This makes it far, far easier to see when your writing is becoming unclear or rambling. Because you can literally watch it happening!
How Writing for One Hour a Day Can Improve The Quality of Your Life
James Clear’s Idea Generation Framework
You’re coming across ideas all the time right like when we talk in this conversation. I think you need to have a central holding ground where you just put all the ideas in your life whether it’s from a conversation or a book.
I typically write either earlier in the morning or before lunch or late at night Whenever I’m sitting down to do that; I’ll go to that list and look through all the notes that are in there. I have hundreds of these. I start to look for ones that connect in some way. Sometimes I have a couple of articles that are in progress. They’re just like holding grounds for ideas.
From Focus to Flow
In an interview with Chase Jarvis, Steven Kotler said it takes roughly 90 minutes to get into a state of flow.
The 4 Best Ways to Earn Income Writing in 2018 (and the 3 Worst)
Author Derek Sivers once said, “What is obvious to you is amazing to others.” If you can give people an easy-to-understand solution to a problem they have, they’ll pay for you for it. If you can automate it, you’re miles ahead of the game.
Every developer should have a blog. Here’s why, and how to stick with it.
A blog is useful for many reasons. It can become a source of leads, it can be the place where, in the future, you might sell your products if you want to become an indie developer, or it can simply be the place where you have your audience and express your ideas.
How to Strengthen Your Writing with One Simple Technique
FOR EXAMPLE
perldotcom/CONTRIBUTING.md at master · dnmfarrell/perldotcom · GitHub
Interested in writing an article for Perl.com? Perhaps you want to get the word out about your new startup, provide a tutorial on your favorite module, or have community news to share. This document is for you.
First drafts
Essential reading: the “Shitty First Drafts” chapter of Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird:
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something — anything — down on paper. A friend of mine says that the first draft is the down draft — you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft — you fix it up.
5 Formulas To Write 500 Words A Day
Observe. Journal. Connect. Write.
This is my go-to formula for daily blog posts. It works like this.
Observe the behavior, conversations and events around you. Jot down the highlights throughout the day. At night, record ten to twelve of these in your journal. Pick out two or three entries that interest you. Ask yourself these questions.
- What did you learn from this?
- What does it prove or disprove?
- What connections can you draw between this event and life, work or area of expertise?
Austin Kleon — Clive Thompson, “The Pencil and the Keyboard: How...
When you teach people to type faster, they get their ideas out. "Transcription influency" - 24wpm is minimum
Typing is great for producing knowledge for other people, say, writing an article. The faster you type, the better your ideas will be. There’s a thing called transcription fluency, which boils down to: “when your fingers can’t move as fast as your thoughts, your ideas suffer.” If you help people increase their typing speed, their thoughts improve. (Learn to type faster.)
A Framework That Will Help You Tell Amazing Stories
I’ve gathered the cornerstone elements into a template you can copy:
Theme:
Concept:
Hero:
Villain:
Act 1 - Hook:
Inciting Incident:
Act 2 - Build:
Escalation:
All is Lost:
Breakthrough:
Act 3 - Payoff:
Climax:
Does your solution solve the right problem?
The most productive engineers I’ve ever worked with aren’t the engineers who pull all-nighters or clock in 80 hour work weeks. Nor are they the engineers who can effortlessly craft an elegant five lines of x86 assembly to succinctly and efficiently solve a problem.
Focus on the problem – each and every time
70ish Life and Business Lessons for Designers – Noteworthy — The Journal Blog
Stop using this, it, that in your writing — next time you write, try to remove the words “this”, “it” and “that” your writing will be easier to understand and read.
Punch above your weight class
Say People not Users
Save time, use patterns
You are not Aaron Draplin. find your own Futura Bold
Always talk to the person next to you
Design one for the stakeholder and one for you
Sidework leads to your next job
Be impeccable with your word
Success = 80% Sell, 20% Design
15 Minute Meetings
Follow Up
Everyone’s job is hard
One big thing each day
Drink water — you will feel more alert, kind and patient.
Great Artists Write
“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly."
Writing intrinsically champions and improves creativity, critical thinking, and clarity.
Design quotes from design educators - InVision Blog
We asked some of our favorite professors and lecturers who use InVision in their classrooms to share their thoughts on design. Here’s what the educators shaping the next generation of designers had to say.
Information Overload? Overcome It with Minimalist Journaling
“What Will I Remember This Day For?”
A while ago, my partner started an interesting journaling practice.
He took up a few pages on his notebook and filled each with a few three-by-three squares. At the end of every day, he fills one square with a few initials and numbers. They all have meaning; they represent moments or important pieces of information related to his day.
Do These Things After 6 P.M. And Your Life Will Never Be The Same
Reflect on what you learn by writing
Apart from becoming a better writer, blogging can help you organise your thoughts.
Blogging encourages deep thinking.
When you begin to share what you know with others, your ability to communicate gets better.
Blogging helps your brain to stay active.
You will also be able to link ideas and pieces of information better.
Writing Tips: How to Describe Setting using Touch – The Writing Cooperative
Show, don’t tell. That’s what every beginning writer is told. But how is this achieved? And what does it look like when it comes to setting?
In terms of show, don’t tell, there are two broad strategies to think about. When used together they are brilliant tools to really paint a picture in your reader’s mind. The first is to use figurative language (but more on this in another post). The second is to use sensory language — to draw upon the five senses to describe the setting.
Let’s take a look at one of the more underutilised senses: touch.
How to Write Technical How-Tos – Rachel Sobel – Medium
In understanding how to write technical instructions, it’s best to understand how people read them. Most readers will want to know: (1) what you’re doing, and whether it’s relevant to what they are trying to do; and (2) how you did it.
This suggests a simple strategy: first, write about what you’re doing and why, and then, explain how to do it. If you leave out the why, or make it hard to find, your reader will have to closely examine your explanation to understand whether your technique is relevant to them at all. If you leave out the how or make it hard to find, your reader will struggle to replicate your efforts.