It’s crazy that something so simple has made me so much more productive, but my productivity has skyrocketed this year because I set some word goals. This year, I set out to dig into my writing. When my young kids are both at school, and I re-enter the world as something other than a stay-at-home […]
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The other day, I had some doubt creep up in me, and I asked my Facebook followers to let me know if anyone actually liked any of my content. You guys lifted me up by telling me that some of you enjoy my content. Someone also suggested that I talk a little bit more about
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Organizing your photos can be a headache. Once you add so many photos, things can become unwieldy, complicating the process of finding the right picture. Luckily, the Photos app can detect faces in your photos, allowing you to tag and group pictures of people in your photos. Here’s how to tag people’s faces in Apple’s
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How to update your medical ID. Making sure your information is up-to-date could save your life
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Most users rely on iCloud to back up their iPhones. But sometimes, you want to back up your iPhone to your Mac. Here are the steps to securely back up your iPhone to your Mac. Why Back Up Your iPhone to a Mac When the iPhone came out, you only had the Mac as a
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My second MakeUseOf piece is up, and it’s a good one! Check out my guide for making any file a template file on macOS.
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I wrote a blog post for my new favorite writing software Novelpad.co. Check out my post on how to plan your entire novel using NovelPad. Hopefully, this is the first of more guest posts to come!
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So you want to know how to write a novel but don’t know where to start. You’ve had an idea floating around in your head that you think would make a great book, but you don’t know what to do next. Maybe you have some thoughts that you think could be the next best seller,
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Last week, we started to plan out our story by developing a few tentpole scenes. This week, we’re going to tackle the filling or those little moments of character development that go between these moments. The following writing exercises will help you flesh out those characters you’ve created. In this part, we get to have
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We finally get to planning out the story, so where do you start? The Beginning and The End of course.
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