by Paul Parry | Jun 14, 2019 |
In my recent post that listed all (well, most) of the things I have to do to get my book finished, I mentioned “two ebook and one paperback” formats. So here’s a brief word on what I mean: My designer will take the Word doc I send containing the...
by Paul Parry | Jun 13, 2019 |
I was listening to the radio earlier today and they were talking about using “Doctor Google” to self-diagnose. It occurred to me that I’ve never really talked about this in the context of internet education but it’s probably worth adding to the...
by Paul Parry | Jun 12, 2019 |
What’s left to do in order to get my book into your hands? Write out, in the first draft, points that I want to make that are currently illustrated by screenshots and other images Come up with titles for the ten chapters that need them Consider order of chapters...
by Paul Parry | Jun 11, 2019 |
Scan, skim, “What’s in it for me?”. That’s how people read your content as they work out within a few seconds if it’s for them or not. So make it easy to read, using: Images Graphics Bullet points Headings/sub-heads White space Paragraphs...
by Paul Parry | Jun 10, 2019 |
It’s worth reminding kids that we can always earn more money but we can’t make more time. Just like there are two ways to learn, there are also two ways to use our time at work: Cherry-picking Blocking Cherry-picking: having a scheduled list of tasks and...
by Paul Parry | Jun 9, 2019 |
Yesterday was a big day for progress on my book as I began a serious edit of the first draft (rather than the light stuff I’ve being doing up to this point). Here’s what I did and how I worked: Opened the Word doc containing the draft (about 27,000 words)...