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How to Interpret Dreams
There are three principles you need to know to interpret your sleeping dreams:
J.J. Richardson
Apr 20, 201810 min read
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Characterization
The subject of characterization has brought me stress for many years because everyone has a different idea of what characterization means.
J.J. Richardson
Dec 28, 20175 min read
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How to Get Your Teenagers to Adore You
Some of the most devoted, patient, and intelligent adults make terrible parents.
J.J. Richardson
Dec 26, 20179 min read
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Ten Percent of our Brain?
If you're trying to loose weight, you'll be happy to know your brain consumes about 20% of your daily input of calories.
J.J. Richardson
Dec 16, 20172 min read
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Beauty Actually Is Skin Deep
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
J.J. Richardson
Oct 14, 20174 min read
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The Sock-Drawer Problem
My wife buys socks for me. In fact, I have three brands of white socks in my sock drawer.
J.J. Richardson
Sep 12, 20174 min read
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Self Hypnosis: The Bigger Picture
Self-hypnosis is so natural and commonplace that everyone passes through the state at least twice every day.
J.J. Richardson
Sep 3, 20177 min read
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How to Write a Novel
I’ve read hundreds of websites and more than twenty books meant to help authors write novels. Most of them didn’t help me.
J.J. Richardson
Jul 20, 201712 min read
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Top 10 Tips for Self-Editing
Gertrude Stein famously wrote, “The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
J.J. Richardson
May 19, 20174 min read
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Gorgeous Curves
Your life will be benefited by a good understanding of these three curves.
J.J. Richardson
May 5, 20174 min read
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Useless
One of the greatest contributors to our sense of self-worth is how useful we are in the situations in which we find ourselves.
J.J. Richardson
Feb 3, 20174 min read
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Hope
Numerous studies have shown that hope has a greater impact on happiness than standard of living.
J.J. Richardson
Jan 28, 20174 min read
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Hiking and Writing Fiction
Hiking is like writing fiction. Once you agree with me on this point, your writing will improve. So will your hiking.
J.J. Richardson
Jan 14, 20173 min read
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You Are the Expert
Your fans want to know that you know what you’re doing.
J.J. Richardson
Dec 17, 20162 min read
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Avoid Clichés Like the Plague
Isn’t it true that many Hollywood movies lately are remakes, sequels, or based on fifty-year-old comic books?
J.J. Richardson
Nov 29, 201610 min read
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When Is It Good Enough?
I read somewhere that "a good short story with one extra word is a bad short story."
J.J. Richardson
Nov 27, 20168 min read
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Journey of 1,000 Interesting Steps
With a bit of skewed math, we can squeeze a decent novella out of one thousand sentences.
J.J. Richardson
Nov 17, 20164 min read
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The Circle of Knowledge
Your uncertainty will grow faster than your increase in knowledge.
J.J. Richardson
Nov 13, 20162 min read
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The Page Game
I have played a game for years that has helped transform my writing from banal lethargy to transcendent elegance.
J.J. Richardson
Nov 4, 20163 min read
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High Standards
Most people feel queasy when standing close to the edge of a tall cliff. This is a good thing.
J.J. Richardson
Nov 3, 20168 min read
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Just Be Yourself
In my youth, no advice was more infuriating and demeaning to me than the three-word lecture, "Just be yourself."
J.J. Richardson
Oct 16, 20164 min read
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Reducing Fractions
By the time I was taking second-semester calculus in college I was sick of reducing fractions.
J.J. Richardson
Oct 9, 20163 min read
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Killing Repetition
In polite company, when people say, “Avoid doing such-and-such,” what they really mean is, “Never do that or you’re wretched filth.”
J.J. Richardson
Oct 7, 20164 min read
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Buttermilk
I reached for the closest glass and poured into my mouth a volume of the white fluid large enough to fill my cheeks.
J.J. Richardson
Oct 4, 20162 min read
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