The romance genre is broad and interesting, with stories taking place in different time periods, blending with other genres, and often tackling challenging themes and social issues. Perhaps what’s most captivating is the focus on the aspect of love and happy endings. Here are some of the most successful, well regarded, and prolific romance authors. …
When your writing project is complete there is this surreal moment of satisfaction and joy that you finally did it. This is the point we all want to reach. But it’s not so easy to start writing or finish that first big project you’ve started. There are enough books, videos, and articles out there that …
Writing a novel is no easy task. Reading an average 300 page book only takes around six or so hours to read. For authors, we know that every one of those 60,000-90,000 words are both a labor of love and exercise in frustration. Coming up with your idea, doing research, creating characters, crafting an outline, …
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Many of us reflect on the current state of journalism and wonder if we could do better. If we believe that we can meet that challenge, we then have to ask what does it take to become a journalist, especially if we are older and have no formal training? For older individuals, your experience in …
Science writing is undergoing a sort-of rebirth. In the early days of traditional media, like newspapers and broadcast radio and television, scientific writers played an important role in making complicated topics easy to understand. These writers often found themselves face-to-face with the world’s foremost researchers about new and exciting innovations. Then traditional media began its …
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The coronavirus put a spotlight on how unprepared society was for an outbreak of a disease that has no vaccine. There have been scares before, like ebola, or the common flu that seems to grow stronger each year. But ebola wound up being contained, and for many people, the flu is just a part of …
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In August, a Standard University School of Medicine study found that people who vaped were up to seven times more likely to be infected by COVID-19 than those who did not vape. However, public attention over e-cigarettes and vaping appear to have fallen, with very few news stories covering the topic after February when pandemic-related …
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Working from home has been on the rise for around a decade, but it was during the COVID-19 outbreak that the idea had taken hold out of necessity. While many companies initially struggled during the first weeks and months of lockdown, and they may still not be entirely sure of its effectiveness, polling does show workers have …
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When jotting down a list of facts about jobs, you may not believe that low unemployment has many downsides. You may think that if everyone is working, then people can afford necessities, they will spend more on goods and services, and drive the overall economy to new heights. While it is true that more people …
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An English village in Speenhamland experimented with universal basic income in response to rising grain prices. That was in 1795. The idea was much the same to what has been proposed today, although with a greater focus on bread. If you didn’t work or were unable to, you received bread for you and your family. …
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