28 Recommended Books That Will Improve Your Writing And Freelance Business Right Now:

📖 On Writing by Stephen King

Stephen King’s classic will appeal even to those who avoid King’s renowned horror-packed tales. In this book, King discusses how he came to be the writer we know today.
📖 The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Annie writes about how hard it is to write and how sometimes it is necessary to destroy paragraphs, phrases and words to re-form them as something even better.
📖 Word Work: Surviving and Thriving as a Writer by Bruce Holland Rogers

Word Work is packed with practical advice for overcoming procrastination, finding happiness in writing and even conquering writer’s block. It also covers how to handle rejection and success.
📖 Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Bird by Bird is an essential part of any writer’s toolbox. In this work, Lamott shares herself and her craft with readers, including anecdotes that tie the pieces together into all-around great writing.
📖 Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell

Aimed at fiction writers, this book tackles everything from models to help with story structure to a variety of techniques to help with crafting great stories from start to finish.
📖 A Writer’s Guide to Persistence by Jordan Rosenfeld

This book focuses on how to be a happy and successful writer throughout your career. It covers everything from finding joy as a writer to avoiding burnout and the all-important challenge of balancing writing with a busy life
📖 War of Art by Steven Pressfield

This book helps writers and creators of all kinds overcome the biggest obstacle of all: our inner naysayer. If something inside of you is keeping you from your biggest accomplishments, this is the right book to pick up.
📖 The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker

This book analyzes examples modern prose, pointing out fantastic writing and offering tips to spruce up lackluster work.
📖 Everybody Writes by Ann Handley

This content-creation book focuses on how to craft quality writing that boosts business and helps find and retain customers, including writing tips, content help, grammar rules, and more.
📖 The Pursuit of Perfection and how it harms writers by Kristine Kathryn

If you struggle to write, finish a project or with doubt in general, this book will help. Something for every writer.
📖 Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success – Johnny B. Truant & Sean

A comprehensive look at the business model of high-output fiction writers. Includes how to write fast, publish quickly and get your book to customers.
📖 Platform: Get noticed in a noisy world. A step-by-step guide for anyone with something to say or sell by Michael Hyattplatform.

This book does a great job of going through all the aspects of reaching an audience through a platform.
📖 Choose Yourself by James Altucher

A manifesto to ignore the middlemen and choose yourself in this age of opportunity. The corporate ‘work' world is broken, the education system is a bubble waiting to burst – you need to take control of your life.
📖 What to Do When It’s Your Turn (And It’s Always Your Turn) by Seth Godin

The book contains inspirational narrations, quotes, and photos of works that have already been done. It guides freelancers on paths to take in building their new career.
📖 Six-Figure Freelancing: The Writer’s Guide to Making More Money by Kelly James-Enger

Writing for exposure won’t pay the bills. This book will help you charge what you’re worth and get paid what you deserve.
📖 The $100 Startup: Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love and Work Better to Live More by Chris Guillebeau

The author narrates stories of different people who have succeeded in business with a startup of 100 dollars.
📖 The Freelancer’s Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Have the Career of Your Dreams– On Your Terms by Sara Horowitz

This book is a guide to new freelancers on the basics of starting a business as well as to existing ones on how to grow and expand.
📖 Stop Thinking as a Freelancer by Liam Veitch

The author advises the freelancers to take their business just like any other business and get exposure to online works. He urges the freelancers to start having an entrepreneurial mind so as to grow the freelancing business.
📖 Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port

This book gives information on how to create a better market for oneself in the online business. Using illustrations, it guides the readers step by step on ways to conduct self-promotion and use it as a success factor in the business.
📖 Creative Inc.: The Ultimate Guide to Running a Very Successful Freelance Business by Meg Mateo Ilasco

This book provides insight on how to start and grow a business and gives practical examples on how to get your brand known, how to earn, and achieve work-life balance.
📖 Starting Your Career As a Freelance Writer by Moira Anderson Allen

This book by Moira Anderson Allen is the perfect first read for any new freelance writers. You’ll find everything you need to get your career started on the right foot and to make money as a writer.
📖 The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success by Linda Formichelle and Diana Burrell

This book is all about breaking the rules in order to win the freelancer game.
📖 The Street Smart Writer: Self Defense Against Sharks and Scams in the Writing World by Jenna Glatzer & Daniel Steven

With this book by Jenna and Daniel, you can learn how to protect yourself from shady contracts and potential scams.
📖 How to Get Great Freelance Clients by Carol Tice, Linda Formichelli & Chris Marlow

You can’t be a successful freelance writer if you don’t have any clients. This book by freelance heavyweights Carol, Linda and Chris will show you how to land the clients you want.
📖 The Content Code by Mark Schaefer

If you’re working in content marketing, you’re going to want to pick up Mark’s book. Mark reveals all of the lessons he’s learned about content in his years working in marketing and sales.

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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x


The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"


The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.

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How to sell Strangles in weekly expiry as explained by boss himself. @Mitesh_Engr

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Beautiful explanation on positional option selling by @Mitesh_Engr
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1st Live example of managing a strangle by Mitesh Sir. @Mitesh_Engr

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Unfortunately the "This work includes the identification of viral sequences in bat samples, and has resulted in the isolation of three bat SARS-related coronaviruses that are now used as reagents to test therapeutics and vaccines." were BEFORE the


chimeric infectious clone grants were there.https://t.co/DAArwFkz6v is in 2017, Rs4231.
https://t.co/UgXygDjYbW is in 2016, RsSHC014 and RsWIV16.
https://t.co/krO69CsJ94 is in 2013, RsWIV1. notice that this is before the beginning of the project

starting in 2016. Also remember that they told about only 3 isolates/live viruses. RsSHC014 is a live infectious clone that is just as alive as those other "Isolates".

P.D. somehow is able to use funds that he have yet recieved yet, and send results and sequences from late 2019 back in time into 2015,2013 and 2016!

https://t.co/4wC7k1Lh54 Ref 3: Why ALL your pangolin samples were PCR negative? to avoid deep sequencing and accidentally reveal Paguma Larvata and Oryctolagus Cuniculus?
A brief analysis and comparison of the CSS for Twitter's PWA vs Twitter's legacy desktop website. The difference is dramatic and I'll touch on some reasons why.

Legacy site *downloads* ~630 KB CSS per theme and writing direction.

6,769 rules
9,252 selectors
16.7k declarations
3,370 unique declarations
44 media queries
36 unique colors
50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices

https://t.co/qyl4Bt1i5x


PWA *incrementally generates* ~30 KB CSS that handles all themes and writing directions.

735 rules
740 selectors
757 declarations
730 unique declarations
0 media queries
11 unique colors
32 unique background colors
15 unique font sizes
7 unique z-indices

https://t.co/w7oNG5KUkJ


The legacy site's CSS is what happens when hundreds of people directly write CSS over many years. Specificity wars, redundancy, a house of cards that can't be fixed. The result is extremely inefficient and error-prone styling that punishes users and developers.

The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.