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Michael Savage Shares Top Accounting Tools for Entrepreneurs
It takes vision, discipline, and the right tools to run a business. Mike Savage is a successful businessman from New Canaan, who has always stated that smart financial management forms the backbone of any successful enterprise. Technology has made accounting easier, accurate, and more accessible than ever. With the right tools, entrepreneurs can reduce errors, save time, and thereby make better decisions for their success in the long run.
By Mike Savage New Canaan11 months ago in Writers
Saving The Job
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What if? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers prompts —The Exercise - On each of five 3x5 index cards, print a vocational label, for example, dentist, truck driver, or fashion model. On each of a second set of index cards, write a mildly strange or unusual behavior. The mistakes here are to be too mundane (brush teeth, clear car) or to be too melodramatic (strangled her lover, drove his flaming truck through the prison walls). Somewhere between lies the quirk of the odd that is interesting: set free the parakeet, pick lose the tennis racket strings, or sew closed his sweater sleeves. Some writers will keep their cards filed for use again and again, and will add to the original pack over time as interesting vocations or actions suggest themselves.Shuffle each pack of cards (not together) and turn over the first pair. The writer may now ask the following question: "Why did Card A do Card B?" Why did the dentist set free the parakeet?" "Why did the fashion model pick loose the tennis racket strings?" The writer may continue flipping cards until a satisfactory pairing is discovered. If no satisfactory pair develops, reshuffle the cards and repeat the procedure. If you have ten cards in each pack you will have 100 possible pairings; twelve cards per pack will yield 144 pairings.Bear in mind that the event suggested by the Story Machine should be thought of as the last scene of a story. Supply motive for the odd behavior. Supply a conflict that might be resolved by this behavior. Imagine a scene prior to the final scene that demonstrates the severity of the conflict. Imagine a scene that demonstrates the initial difficulty.This exercise may easily be adapted for a class. Instead of shuffling, students pass cards one way and then another so that no student is left with any of her original cards. The liberating outcome is that if the new pair lacks all resonance for a student, the student has no emotional investment in the product of the Story Machine. No one has made a mistake or performed badly, just some bad luck has occured. Class discussions of motive and structure can be lively.The Objective - Retrograde plotting is often a revelation to the beginning writer who has again and again found herself staring off into the space above the typewriter and asking, "Now what happens?" Writing toward a conclusion for some writers is easier than exploring the consequences of an imagined premise. One more easily discovers the beginnings of things if one knows the ending. That the Story Machine requires vocational labels gives students insight to the rudiments of characterization, as such labels suggest education levels and socioeconomic status.
By Denise E Lindquist11 months ago in Writers
Echoes Between “I” and Time
I feel heavenly when I could be “I” if in abstraction to realm and claim;in the other hand, I raise the wine and say:where is my mind?Sing — a song by a bird who lost his chord,a tiger on view, haunting me,my eyes gazed like a veil,a drop of water mixed with one of tears,my toxic treat.Which one could survive without him gain! as much as the creepers run on stream,not of consciousness,but instead, a loop with time,dancing with placesas if they had never been .Beneath those eyesa potion of love,whispered by the lips of a witch .that’s why I always look further,beyond her lovely soul,inside her mind,as a symbol she could never reach,ever and over time.It’s my horrible way,my faithful road,still maximizing the infiniteby a piece of silver ,as they said, Judas once betrayed Jesus for silver,and for me,a silver is the cause of pain.And if you ask me :which way I choose my suffer and pain?A needle or a pen?
By LUCCIAN LAYTH11 months ago in Writers
Reworking A Story That Was Submitted To A Challenge
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What if? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers prompts —The Exercise - Take a story you have completed and go through it and intensify the conflict, magnifying the tension and shrillness at every turn, even to the point of absurdity or hyperbole. Add stress wherever possible, both between characters and within them as individuals. Exaggerate the obstacles they face. Be extreme. The Objective - To create an awareness of the need for a high level of tension while encouraging a healthy regard for how easily it can become excessive. This exercise is not meant to "improve" the story, although it often provokes new and more dynamic descriptions and dialogue. It raises the writer's consciousness about the need for conflict in fiction.
By Denise E Lindquist11 months ago in Writers
Lost Between Mirrors and Time
Here Luccian Layth is reflecting on what the self may be re-refracted in its mirror, between trial and betrayal, between inner death and inner light, the existential question takes place towards eternity, nothingness, and the Creator. It is a poetic excursion, between suspicion and definite affirmation, between obscurity and radiance, in which the way itself is the creature and the creature is the way.
By LUCCIAN LAYTH11 months ago in Writers
Here Comes Judge!
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What if? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers prompts —The Exercise - Look in your files for a story that seems stuck, a story that has a story block. Next, write at the top of a separate sheet of paper the two words. What If. Now write five ways of continuing the story, not ending the story, but continuing the story to up your thinking about the events in the story. Your what if's can be as diverse as your imagination can make them. More than likely, and this has proved true through years of teaching and writing, one of the what if's will feel right, organic to your story and that is the direction in which you should go. Sometimes you will have to do several groups of what if's per story, but that's okay as long as they keep you moving forward.The Objective - To illustrate that most story beginnings and situations have within them the seeds of the middle and end. You just have to allow your imagination enough range to discover what works.
By Denise E Lindquist11 months ago in Writers
What happened to Feminism?: The Invention of the Action Heroine in film
From Spectacle to Story Action women in cinema are not a new concept. They have been an important fixture since the beginnings of Japanese film, from the early “cinema of attractions” to more modern narrative cinema. But to understand the complex relationship between women and their roles on screen, it helps to start with film history itself.
By Sruti Tekumalla11 months ago in Writers
No name story..
I would say my name, but it’s unnecessary. I’ve written poems, short stories, my feelings and it’s something that’s never left my notebook. What can you do when your mind races from the moment you awaken until darkness quiets the world? Does your mental health take a toll on you like it does with me? I lie there wondering what I’m doing to cause the problems everyone seems to see come from me. Do they think like I do? I guess not, huh? Is me wondering what I’m doing wrong mean I have some good left in me? No matter how many times I bottle up my thoughts and feelings, nothing that strong can be held without a consequence. Im not sure I understand the purpose behind being so judgmental. Aren’t we family? Aren’t we all from the same origin? We all come from common grounds and to hear that one doesn’t see or doesn't help another is killing the foundation of where this all started. How can we build and grow— even maintain a life that is now considered “sustainable” if we don’t come together. One must understand another, to grow itself.
By Mariah Ciera11 months ago in Writers
