9 At-Home Workouts You Can Do With Zero Equipment
Staying fit is a personal commitment that each person can honor in their own creative ways. Getting a gym membership and finding a workout buddy are great ways to hold yourself accountable. But what if you can’t go to the gym as often as you'd like? That doesn’t mean...
How to Listen to Audiobooks: 4 Tips for Effective Listening
Audiobooks are the busy booklover’s best friend: when you're too busy or tired to thumb the pages of a paperback, you can just press "Play" and have a book read for you! While audiobooks are a recent invention, Thomas Edison himself predicted their rise back in 1877,...
How to Write a Contract in 9 Simple Steps
Believe it or not, you don't need a network of attorneys or a Harvard law degree to write your own legal contract. Chances are, you've been asked to sign a contract at some point in your life (like when you started a new job or rented an apartment). But there may also...
Email Subject Lines: Tips and Tricks to Get Your Messages Opened
You’ve been struggling to write the perfect email for your recipients, only to discover that just a small percentage of them are responding to your offers, or even looking at them. With no one reading your messages, you’re losing thousands of potential clients every...
Determiners: What They Are and How to Use Them
When communicating in English, you may notice that not all words fall neatly into the eight parts of speech (which are nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections). One of these words that falls outside those eight...
How to Write an Invoice in 8 Simple Steps (Includes Template)
Whether you're a freelancer or the owner of a small business, it's probably safe to assume that you like getting paid for your products and services. But if you want to be taken seriously and increase your chances of actually getting money in your pocket, you'll have...
How to Set Up a Personal Library in 7 Steps
If you love books as much as we do, chances are you've got a growing collection. But if you don't have a designated space for all those books, you might find paperbacks popping up between your couch cushions and classic editions collecting dust under your bed. And...
Third Person Omniscient POV: Advantages and Limits
A great story will sweep you away into the world of its characters—from the struggles they endure, to their thought processes and reactions to everything that happens. The point of view (POV) that a writer chooses will affect how readers experience the story. If...
How to Write a Research Proposal: 8 Key Sections to Include
If you're a high school, college, or graduate student, you know that research papers are pretty much inevitable facts of life. So why not embrace the process and give it your best effort? Sometimes the most difficult part is getting started. The research proposal is a...
Third Person Limited Point of View: The Advantages and Challenges
Part of the fun of writing—and reading—is exploring the perspectives of different characters. When you put yourself in the shoes of a person from a different background, it broadens your own view of the world and the story you're reading. This is why, as an author,...