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Can We Stop Writing Articles with Titles That are Questions Now Please?
From: Is Activated Charcoal Messing with Your Medications? The writing article titles in the form of a question fad has followed a predictable trajectory. It started as an innocent though tired and cliched way to try and make listicles stand out from the crowd. Then came the juices, supplements, and claims that writing article titles in the form of a question detoxifies your body and makes your writing better.
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in Journal
Is "seagull management" unfair to seagulls themselves?
The misunderstood “seagull manager” Although the phrase “seagull manager” tends to be used in numerous cases in management, it is not an officially recognized business management term, such as, for example, Maslow’s theory on the hierarchy of needs, which is extensively taught to business school students around the world.
By thepavsalford4 years ago in Journal
I hate writing but I am a writer
I hate writing. I am a writer. Laying in bed at night when a spark of inspiration hits me. It’s 1 am. I have been trying to write a chapter of my current project for the last 3 hours, but at this very moment an idea, character and plot is growing in my brain. I should write this down. I need to get up in 5 hours though. Now my mind is awake with this storyline that could be my next piece but I’ll probably never finish. At this rate, I won’t sleep anyway so I get up, put the lamp on a jot some points down in my notebook. You can tell this is not an out of the ordinary occurrence by the notebook within arms reach of the bed.
By Lara Newton4 years ago in Journal
Stop Hiring Like This Isn't A Talent Crisis
How do they hire thee? Let us count the ways. Reeling from the double-barrelled aftershocks of the global health crisis (which is still ongoing, but we're all supposed to quietly ignore it apparently) and the long-overdue Great Resignation, businesses today are hurrying to fill positions from fry-cooks to financial advisors.
By Tony White4 years ago in Journal
Writing Challenge
Author's Preface: You know I love you Vocal.media. I kid because I love. Because I love to make you face up to the terrible example you have set for all writers and lovers of free expression with your awful censorship policies. And because I love to point out how your publishing "rules" are ridiculous and absurd, and how your writing challenges are totally bereft of creativity or originality. But also because I love. lol!
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in Journal
8 Lessons from a 3-Figure Writer
It’s already tomorrow somewhere in the world. Maybe that’s why the future feels like it is already here. Do you have questions about the future? Who doesn’t, right? The future is big and scary and always seemingly just out of reach. Then suddenly before you know it you are there, and it’s the present and then not a shortest measurable moment of time later it’s the past already. WTF? That sure was fast. But the future is still out there staring you in the face, laughing at you, calling you a big baby and asking you what’s taking so long. F-you future is what I always say.
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in Journal
