According to most studies, people’s number one fear is making speeches. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? That means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. — Jerry Seinfeld That’s a joke by Jerry Seinfeld, arguably the …
Category: Publishing
Inspirational six-word stories — four
Creating inspirational six-word stories is a great way to exercise your brain, and squeeze it into a tiny space. This is a fun website where you can choose a topic and get those six words into the right order to make a story. You can read what others have done. Have a try and see …
Inspirational six-word stories — three
Creating inspirational six-word stories is a great way to exercise your brain, and squeeze it into a tiny space. This is a fun website where you can choose a topic and get those six words into the right order to make a story. You can read what others have done. Have a try and see …
Inspirational six-word stories — two
Creating six-word stories is a great way to exercise your brain, and squeeze it into a tiny space. This is a fun website where you can choose a topic and get those six words into the right order to make a story. You can read what others have done. Have a try and see what …
Beyond Home book trailer
We often see trailers for movies which advertise a few key points from the movie but do not give away any spoilers or key plot points. The trailer should give the moviegoer a taste of the adventure and excitement to be found in the movie to entice them to go and see it. Book trailers …
Move fast and break things — social media in context
My brief was to join a focus group which would research social media to decide whether it would be practicable to use it within my workplace, a State government department. There started my particular interest in social media. I was already hooked on Facebook, had a profile on Twitter (as myself, as President of Society …
Reading singlehanded
Even if Spring is only two weeks away, I still think of August as the dead of winter, hibernation time, time to contemplate, meditate and cogitate. The death of the fiscal year is a time when we are forced to look back on what we’ve done with our year, how much money we made, but …
Funny Games — a critical analysis
Funny Games is the 2008 American remake of the Austrian version of the film produced in 1997; both were directed by German–born Michael Haneke. The American version is a shot-for-shot remake of the Austrian film; its sameness insisted upon by Haneke for an American audience, the film he said they ‘needed to see’. The film …