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shared by John Lemke on 30 Mar 14 - No Cached

When your article assignment is to write 1,000 words and you turn in 2,000 words, it creates all kinds of problems for your editor. She’ll need to comb through your article and decide which 1,000 words she can cut. After all, she has only so much space, so she has to make it fit. Now, don’t get all wishy-washy on me and turn the extra material into a bonus sidebar. Just squish all those extra words in there and let your editor deal with it.
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Avoid showing even a modicum of personality. If you want your article killed, it should look like it was written by a robot…a robot that doesn’t speak English.
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When you get an assignment, your client will send you a little thing called an assignment letter, which details the specs of the assignment. Ignore this.
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If those don’t work out, over-rely on source-finding services like ProfNet and Help a Reporter Out, using whoever happens to respond — and whatever you do, do NOT check out the sources you get from there to make sure they’re credible.
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When the editor asks you for backup on your facts, tell him you’re the backup. And whenever you get the chance, inject your opinion into the article.
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shared by John Lemke on 03 Jul 14 - No Cached

The author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (real name, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), continued to work day jobs throughout his life.
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Other authors who held down day jobs throughout their writing careers include Bram Stoker, Philip Larkin, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, among many others.
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she wrote the bestselling book Interview With The Vampire while working her day job as an insurance claims examiner.
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Anne Rice
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Having a day job makes it imperative that I allocate time for writing. I insure I write at least 2 hours before I go to work come rain or shine. And I do this by following my rituals every morning without fail.
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Regardless of what time I work (shift work), I wake up at least 3 hours prior and like clockwork, 1) I brush my teeth, 2) make breakfast, 3) sit down at my desk, 4) check emails, 5) check in on my social connections and finally 5) after stretching my legs for a moment, I write on cue for at least two hours.
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ake note of the things you do consistently every day before and after work.
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Create a space of time within your current daily rituals for writing every day. Make sure it’s at a time of day that works best for you.
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Commit.
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I highly recommend creating a writing sanctuary for yourself, somewhere you only go to write, and therefore, your mind will associate being there with writing.
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shared by John Lemke on 16 Jan 16 - No Cached

- John Lemke on 16 Jan 16
  
  They admit that they failed to detect the most significant one to strike in the history of the program.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">They admit that they failed to detect the most significant one to strike in the history of the program.</div>
  
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the Chelyabinsk asteroid is the exception, not the rule, and with improved technologies NASA has been able to detect smaller asteroids over the years. NASA notes that “more than 13,500 near-Earth objects of all sizes have been discovered to date – more than 95 percent of them since NASA-funded surveys began in 1998.
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- John Lemke on 16 Jan 16
  
  And here they say that is the exception...
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">And here they say that is the exception...</div>
  
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