Avoid the panic of running out of time with the teleprompter time calculator. Writing for what you see can make you speed up and trip over words, which isnt great for confidence. With this, you can see exactly how long it takes to say things by translating word count to actual run-time. That way, you […]

There comes a point of sheer terror: after hours of agonizing over a tagline, you create a mock-up of your book, place it a few inches away and squint, does it look like a blob of gray ink? Did that line you worked so hard to perfect and capture the heart of your story break […]

Good intentions be damned: You get your hands on a graded reader and find yourself abandoning it after chapter three because the number of pages feels never-ending. If you’re anything like me, this isn’t due to your lack of vocabulary size, or even your motivation level. More likely, it’s a matter of planning. The reason […]

This begins with an assumption that costs you hours of productivity. You spot an eight thousand word architecture RFC. You figure it’ll only take you forty minutes to read, since you’re good for three hundred words per minute on a news site. You sit down, open the document, and within moments realize this isn’t reading. […]