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My Latest Writing Job is Not Being a Ghost!
I can rarely share my work — because I am usually writing for someone else… but this new job is anything but ghost work. I have had a regular online writing job, for several years now, that lets me add my name, and now I have another one — I’ll be writing for Lifewire, and here’s my first article… And, I just wanted to share, that I watched a wonderful movie with William Holden and Maggie McNamara, Once in a Blue Moon… sweet… I have underestimated William Holden…
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Robots Have No Hearts: And That Could Be a Very Dangerous Thing
One of the biggest fears that pops up when people think about the impending influx of robots, machine learning, automated intelligence (AI) is — will I still have a job? After ghostwriting about these issues for more than a year now, I know that’s not the issue we should be wringing our hands over when it comes to AI. Technology and automation have, historically, increased jobs, rather than decreased them. A case in point is the ATM machine — its advent actually increased the number of live human tellers. (By the way, I will be sneaking in a few links to some of the articles I have ghostwritten on this topic…
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On Saving Women’s Lives and Giving them Power
Take a look at some of my recently published stories. Here, And here.
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The Nightmare that Comes After Deep and Tormented Sleep…
Excerpt from an upcoming story, yet to be published, based on an interview I did with an amazing woman: Almost like a nightmare after a long, deep and tormented sleep, she shares the story of a life that left her with no other options. This is a journey that started when she was five years old. Fatherless, a stepfather stepped into her world and offered her sips of Black Velvet. His intention was to make her sick so that she would “lose the taste for it.†But in a world where food and toilet paper are scarce, (her mother sold the Food Stamps for drugs), Black Velvet formed a bond;…
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Telling Stories With Technology
Have you ever noticed that after you’ve searched for a particular product on the internet, that afterward, your computer screen is suddenly bombarded with ads for the same product on unrelated sites? They just mysteriously pop up there… as if that computer of yours is reading your mind. And they are reading your mind… your clicks, your page loads… all of that activity you are doing online gives marketers a profile of who you are and what you plan to buy next. Marketers don’t just stop with ascertaining what you plan to buy, but what stage are you in the buying cycle? Are you searching for information, scanning competitor sites? Are…
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The Clues are in the “Ums” and “Ahs”
“It just doesn’t feel like Christmas unless I’m out making deliveries.” While most kids were busy making Christmas lists, Karmen was out with her mom and siblings, giving presents away. “In our spare time, they wiped down the shelves off the food pantry.” When I’m interviewing someone for an article, I usually try to type everything they say into my Ipad — so I don’t miss a word. Every “um,” “ah,” “and” and “well” is there… and I know, if there are stumbled, stuttered words over a particular topic, that this is the that needs to be explored. Every stumble is a clue to something bigger. You learn more about what is not said,…
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Seeing It As Just One More Big Adventure
When I heard the words, I deliberately decided this news would not send me into panic, fear, terror or depression. Denial, this was not. Rather, a purposeful decision to let the words sink in while I simultaneously tried to imagine the worst of the scenario playing out, as if it were a good thing. Getting older gives you the insight, fortitude and wisdom to know how to take bad news with grace. Isn’t grace strength? This is a decision. A choice. To turn your mind away from the downward spiral and to see it instead as the elevator lift it might be. What if the lake dried up? Most say…
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To Those Who Abandon Their Own Storefronts
My 7th Grade English Teacher : If you want to understand something, teach it. If you want to know something, write about it. They asked me to write a column; a series of articles to show how storytelling could help companies explain their products and services to customers. I thought, I’m just simply going to “re-tell†everyone what they already know. What’s so profound about explaining information about your product, and getting it out there for people to see? What I found instead, was how so many companies get it wrong. Poorly written websites, which never get to the meat of what consumers want to know: How does your product…
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Ghost Writing Projects You’ll Never Know About
The roots of the case went all the way back to 1968, two weeks after the assination of Martin Luther King Jr. Over the July 4th weekend, I was buried in pulling together two weeks worth of research I had complied concerning a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case. The results of the case will definitely change the neighborhood you live in right now, as it centers around giving minorities equal access to neighborhoods with better schools. This case was all I could eat, sleep snd think sbout over the glory days of the fourth. What part of the story had not been covered before? Was there a side to the…
