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Upcoming Trade Shows in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a prime location for trade shows that attract marketers, exhibitors, and industry professionals from around the world. With a variety of events scheduled in 2025, marketers have ample opportunities to explore the latest trends, network, and grow their businesses. Here are some of the most anticipated trade shows in Los Angeles, with all the details you need to plan your visit.
By James Smith2 years ago in Writers
An Ideal Partner, Message To Fathers of Daughters, And To Compromise Or Not
Rupi Kaur's Relationship Writing Prompts - Describe the qualities and characteristics of your ideal partner. Must love me and his family, laugh easily, love to ride motorcycle and the outdoors, hard worker, jack of all trades, carry me when necessary. That describes my husband. One of the most important things though is that he is in recovery from his addiction to alcohol.
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Writers
Say Goodbye to Asthma with Proven Ayurvedic Treatment Solutions
Asthma, a chronic respiratory condition, affects millions of people worldwide. It causes difficulty in breathing, wheezing, and chest tightness, significantly impacting the quality of life. While conventional medicine offers relief, Ayurvedic treatment for asthma provides a holistic and natural approach to managing this condition, focusing on long-term healing rather than just symptom relief.
By Dr. Kishore Kumar2 years ago in Writers
Why I Burned My Life’s Work—And Found Freedom in the Ashes
Start writing...I burned the manuscript on a Tuesday. It wasn’t a ritual. There was no sage, no drum circle, no Instagrammable sunset. Just me, a Dollar Store lighter, and 1,247 pages of a novel I’d spent seven years writing—and rewriting, and re-rewriting—until the sentences felt like cement in my veins. The fire smelled like shame. And freedom. The Pyre of Perfectionism For years, I chased a horizon made of Pinterest boards and Pulitzer fantasies. My novel was supposed to be perfect: a labyrinthine epic about grief, quantum physics, and a sentient oak tree named Gerald. Instead, it became a cudgel. I’d write a chapter. Delete it. Rewrite it. Delete it again. My inner critic had a PhD in gaslighting: “Tolstoy wrote War and Peace in two drafts. You’re on Draft 23. Pathetic.” My laptop’s keyboard wore thin where the Backspace key lived. The Day Maya Laughed Maya, my best friend and brutally honest beta reader, finally snapped. She read Draft 17—the one where Gerald the tree becomes a TikTok influencer—and laughed. Not the warm, wine-fueled chuckle I’d hoped for. The kind of laugh that curdles milk. “Why are you doing this?” she asked. “You hate this story. I hate this story. Even Gerald hates this story.” She was right. The Flames That Forgot to Lie The bonfire happened in my driveway. I printed every draft, every sticky note, every self-flagellating journal entry about “artistic integrity.” Stacked them in a rusted grill I’d never used. The first spark caught slowly. Then, a paragraph curled into smoke: “Gerald’s bark furrowed like a middle-aged philosopher’s brow…” I watched my words turn to confetti. A neighbor called 911. The Aftermath (Or, What the Fire Taught Me) Perfectionism isn’t high standards—it’s fear in a ballgown. Art dies in drafts. It lives in risks. Gerald the tree deserved better. The firefighters arrived, hoses ready. I waved them off, pointing to the ashes. “Just killing my ego,” I said. They left, muttering about “art types.” The Phoenix Curriculum Rebirth isn’t pretty. I spent weeks scrubbing smoke stains off the driveway. Scrubbing my brain, too. Then, I wrote a poem. Just one. About the blisters on my palms from hauling all those pages to the curb. It was bad. I posted it anyway. Someone called it “brave.” Someone else called it “deranged.” Both felt true. What I Keep in the Ashes Today, I write on napkins. Receipts. My arm. The novel’s gone, but its ghost lingers: A scar where the grill handle seared my thumb. One sentence I salvaged: “The tree never apologized for its roots.” A voicemail from Maya: “Next time, invite me. I’ll bring marshmallows.” Why Burn Your Own Life’s Work? Because sometimes, creation demands destruction. Because you deserve to make ugly things. Because Gerald the tree is now a haiku.
By Rehan Mozzam2 years ago in Writers
Read This if You Feel Like Giving Up. Top Story - February 2025.
Life in its brevity often feels burdensome, yearning for us to be free of all the turbulence that stirs up its breaths in our hearts. How beautiful would life be if we let go of pain, anger, sadness, grim! I wish we had built-in programming that would delete all the moments and experiences that stirred catastrophic fires and raged war and kindled and whooshed the fire within us simultaneously! Human minds behold the capability of inventiveness, of loving, of living and yet with so much to be blissful about, we are inherent in our ounces to be boggled about negativity, to be enveloped in the traumatic flashes of our photographic memory. I know it is vital to be grateful for the goodness of life, the light that exists in our strides, the privilege and the beauties that we possess, the existence that we lead is a dream for many, that all consorts to be the gospel truth and cannot be denied. But at the end of every second we spend in this mortal realm, in the most painstaking way I would shout in gallant echoes of the rooftop, it is okay to not be okay!
By Hridya Sharma2 years ago in Writers
How to Ensure Safety when Working on Suspended Scaffolding
Suspended scaffolding is widely used in construction, maintenance, and repair work, allowing workers to access high-rise structures efficiently. While it provides flexibility and convenience, it also poses significant safety risks if not used properly. Ensuring safety when working on suspended scaffolding requires a combination of proper training, high-quality equipment, and adherence to industry regulations. In Sheffield, scaffold design plays a crucial role in preventing accidents and ensuring a secure working environment.
By reliablescaffoldersheffield2 years ago in Writers
Why Your Magic Needs Rules
Don't you hate it when you're reading a story about mages and you're trying to figure out why they don't just use magic to get out of a problem? The apprentice has cast a fireball, used telekinesis to grab keys while in a cell, and took advantage of psychometry to get a clue from the killer's hammer, but then has a problem opening a door; while it's a nice nod to Vox Machina, it brings up a lot of questions about how your magic system works.
By Jamais Jochim2 years ago in Writers
Exposing Your Characters
Nudity is one of those weird things where you seem to either have too much or too little of it. As writers, we need to debate its use as it has plenty of meanings that we may not be ready for; the use of nudity in the wrong situation may give a scene an unusual flavor. However, its proper use can add deeper meaning to the scene as well as increase its immersion value. Nudity can be all sorts of fun to include, but its use does need to be debated.
By Jamais Jochim2 years ago in Writers
Building Characters
Lots of writers have problems when it comes to building characters. They either build characters that end up being too powerful for their setting, that don't fit into the world, or just have the wrong number of dimensions (either two flat or have too much going on). They need a system to help them not only decide where their characters fit in and possibly help them do some world-building on the side.
By Jamais Jochim2 years ago in Writers
Five Problems With Being a Writer (and How to Solve Them!)
Being a writer means that you have a lot of neuroses. Making it fun is when you need to overcome those neuroses in order to get something on the page. With that in mind, here are some of the more basic problems writers face and how to overcome them.
By Jamais Jochim2 years ago in Writers
