Fridays With Dale: Promises
Promises By Dale Angel My body is self-destructing with my knowledge, but without my consent. These pills I do battle with every tim...
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How to Stop Freaking Out and Nail Your Presentation
You hear presentation, but your brain hears SABRE-TOOTHED TIGER! Why? Because your brain is still basically wired the same as it was in cave-people days. So…how exactly are you, with the brain of a cave-person, expected to nail your prese...
Faking the Final Girl in Riley Sager’s Final Girls
(~10 Minute Read) In the conservative nature of horror film and literature, audiences have come to know and expect certain tropes to appear consistently to fulfill their pleasure in those entertainment mediums. This is most especially true ...
Filters, Captions, and Other Zoom Features You Might Have Missed
A few weeks ago I published an article in which I mentioned that Zoom didn’t have a native transcription or captioning feature. Within minutes of hitting publish on that article, people emailed me to… Read the whole entry at Fre...
Fridays With Dale: Water Wasters
Water Wasters By Dale Angel Water Wasters have always walked among us, masquerading as upright citizens. But…with surveillance equipment, cameras, listening and forensic devices that can detect suspicious splashes left over from was...
5 Tips to Help Pull Off Work-School Balance Successfully
Whatever your reason for working through school, you’ve likely wondered whether you’re doing the right thing. Especially if your work-school balance is suffering. It’s okay to wonder whether it’s worth putting yourself through the c...
How to flesh out a setting?
Don’t do the five-senses-role-call. EG, the “character enters the room and mentally describes the taste of the air” kind of approach. There’s a lot of “top ten writing advices” articles out there suggesti...
How to tell a Genre Story
(~7 Minute Read) We want our story to be gripping. We want it to stay in our reader’s minds. We want to entertain, we want to challenge, we want to fire our reader’s passion so that they’ll read our next story. But writing...
Fridays With Dale: Send Me Flowers
Send Me Flowers By Dale Angel She said, “Son, give me flowers while I’m living, not after I’m dead and can’t see and smell and touch them.” He was helping to build space equipment, an exciting ...
Hello All! New here and to book writing, have a question..
I’m a professional truck driver and I have an active blog in which I post articles here and there. I took an interest in writing a few years back and purchased a program a few years back, but never followed through with it.I have fina...