#If all you have is a delete key every problem is a typo

[ren-c-leyn]

Happy STS Ren! Today I would like to ask about your editing process. You rewrite drafts for one thing, but what else do you do? What does usually change between drafts? Do you need distance to be able to see what needs to be changed? How do you evaluate the quality of your writing? Any editing tools/helps/rules that help you either to write or to edit later?

+ a writing update ^^

@writingonesdreams

Happy STS to you too, Dreams ^^

So, editing. It's not my favorite part but it's actually the most organized part of my entire chaotic process.

So, first, I have a confession to make - I do edit as I write. Sometimes line edits, if the typo/missing word/janky sentence are really, really bugging me. Mostly, though, it's me going back and making rough blocks of foreshadowing/events that needed to happen in earlier chapters to make my surprise plot twists make sense in later chapters.

The fact that I cannot do this part of my editing process with The Shackles of Time due to posting it as I'm going makes me very, very nervous as it is a key part of my writing. The problem with my chaotic style is not even I see some of the things that happen later on coming, therefor I could not foreshadow ahead of time. So, yeah. I reread Shackles of Time frequently to try to minimize this particular aspect of my writing/editing process. (I'm scared for when it gets long enough that I can't knock out a reread in a weekend. That's going to make future chapters a touch stressful XD)

When I finish a draft, I let it sit for a minimum of two weeks. Usually longer, but mostly because I'm juggling half a dozen projects all at different stages so things get dropped for a hot minute.

Sometimes I'll come back from letting it sit and do some minor to moderate edits, lines, some consistency tweaks, but no major overhauls of the plot. It honestly depends on how intensive the fixes to the story are needed if I do this or not. Usually this step happens when there's something about it that's bugging me that I can't quite pin down. If I do this extra step, I let it sit again for a minimum of 2 weeks.

Then I break out the physical notebook. Now, when I sit down with physical paper, that's it for the draft. No more edits, no more tweaks, it lives like that now. I read. Anything edits I need to make, particularly to character arcs, the plot, and other major overhauls get jotted down alone with things I really like about the draft that I want to keep.

Then I rewrite the entire draft using my notes and the previous drafts as a guide.

This process gets repeated over and over until I get a draft I want to keep. The requirements for a keeper draft is 1. No major overhauls needed, moderate and lower issues are easily dealt with without rewriting, plot holes have been resolved or can be resolved with a few added/deleted paragraphs, and the entire draft flows decently while I'm reading it.

Then I go through multiple editing passes to clean up the prose, add some detailing, scrap some filler words, and what have you until I'm happy with it.

That's not to say the finished product ends up flawless. I've reread chapter 1 of The Shackles of Time at least 6 times now and I still randomly find typos in it XD

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As for your update, I finished up another celebration post. I just need to schedule it. I've been working on another one while doing other things today. Once I finish this one, I just have one left and then I'm done with the anniversary posts.

However, I have decided that I will be redoing The Shackles of Time's banner to celebrate it's second year. So all chapters scheduled after it's official birthday will have the new banner. I may decide to do a new banner every year as a sort of mini-celebration.

Other than that, I have nothing else to report. I've been making a mad dash to finish these up since October is just around the corner.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a lovely day/evening.

#sts #writing discussion

[blocksruinedme]

22. describe your writing process from scratch to finish.

28. handwritten notes or typed notes?

44. any writing advice you want to share?

22) my writing process!

be living my life, possibly babysitting or driving (maybe talking about blorbos)

think "hey what if...."

become possessed

from there it splits Version A - the fastest, and rarest, one

A1. get to my couch (or a different laptop place, or a notebook if desperate)

A2. Frantically let words spill out of me, often wishing my fingers could keep up with my brain. It's sometimes almost painful, needing to get the words out

A3. edit for a variable amount of time an post

My first published mcyt was like this - watched ranchers in the crossover at 11am, ideas marinated all day, came up with "what if tango's the key to fix fwhimmy" walking to my car at 5pm, started writing like 5:15 and published at maybe 1am. almost 5k long. Insane. that was MY EX STOLE MY SOULMATE.. | Empires SMP S2 1.19 (rated T) and I'm told also With Their Knife to His Throat (rated M) but I legit have next to no memories of writing that one, I think it was 48 hours from idea to published (4k).

B - normal version. Note: all of this is interspersed with working on a lot of other stories

B1: Have an idea, probably frantically but maybe it builds

B2: Think about it a lot, maybe ideas in a little notebook if they are coming at the wrong times. 

B3: write down bits of prose as they come, do a lot of outline in gdocs. 

B4: start writing from the beginning based on outline but also what feels right - in any given moment, i know more about the story than i did when i wrote the outline

B5: if i’m lucky write chronologically and work through the outline and add things. Often a section isn’t coming and i skip ahead. If it’s not happening, it’s not time for it to happen. To write the way I really want to, I need to know how it ends, so I can have the story build. 

B6: probably fuss a lot

B7: beg people for help and to tell me it’s okay to publish

B8: stress a lot about if it’s good enough and about minor changes i could make

Optional: B9: put it down for 1-7 months (i just published a fic from january, and two of my bang fics are from september and november)

B10: publish it pretty much the same as it was in B8

(I deleted C by adding B9 but already wrote D)

D: Probably just the once

D1: See a prompt for driving after dark and get unexpectedly interested

D2: write 2k of notes while trying to get another story done

D3: Give myself 6 days to write those 2k of notes and then it’s 20k and my longest fic ever and oops needs a lot of typo fixes: The Key to His Problem (rated E)

The editing etc process:

 During every version of this I have a gdoc shared with people and am begging for advice. If i can’t decide on a word when i’m writing and have some flow going, i say “they were all [very] surprised” and leave a comment (or just the brackets) to come back later and fix it. THIS IS MUCH OF HOW I WRITE FAST. The first draft is to get out it out of my head, the second draft is to get it into the reader’s head. SOMETIMES the flow is perfect and i don’t need to do this, but like, idk, 10% of the time? 

A lot of the words in [brackets] will wind up staying as is, but it gives me permission to move on without feeling like i’ve settled. 

Editing sometimes involves a lot of of editing passes, sometimes just because i want to work on it and don’t want to write. This can mean the early parts get soooo much more love. 

Sometimes I print out a fic that has gone through a set of editing and do more on paper. It can be great. I just see the story differently, and it mostly keeps me from adding huge amounts, and i catch errors i didn’t otherwise. 

Usually i put up the ao3 draft a few days earlier and start adding tags and putting in my text (which i do in html) to look at it. The title often comes the day i publish, cause i wait till the end.

28. handwritten notes or typed notes?

typed unless i don't have my laptop. I started carrying around a pocket sized notebook in march and i'm onto my second one. I got it in a Japanese stationery store and got hooked, i have this line in many sizes, here's my pocket notebook -https://www.jetpens.com/Maruman-Mnemosyne-N184A-Twin-Ring-Memo-Pad-A7-Graph/pd/7379 I've written in this baby in the corner of a club cause i had ideas waiting at the bar for a drink.

44. any writing advice you want to share?

You have to get the words out. You have to get the words out. You have to get the words out.

Good words can be, often are, born of less good words.

Don't be afraid of editing! Great fiction generally comes from editing! Put down some fucking words even if you hate them and get to the next part. I do this, I am not preaching advice I don't take. I'll leave a comment sometimes to tell my future self I didn't think they were good words, I just needed them out. It's fine, I survive every single time.

If you don't need to edit, swell! But if you're stuck, just keep writing something -- or if that won't work, or you feel shitty, take a break. Work on another story, do something else, but if you're miserable and slamming your head against the wall, STOP! Don't hurt yourself! Because you shouldn't hurt, and because you'll associate writing more and more with hurt.

Get other people involved. Share snippets with your friends (if you've got an appropriate discord, make a channel for it!) Trade off reading with your writer friends. If you like my writing, know that not a single word I've ever published hasn't been read by multiple other people. My pre-fic writing was generally group works, so that's what feels normal. The idea of publishing with not even anyone to say "Hey Vee, this makes sense in your brain but not mine" is terrifying. You don't need to Have Serious Beta, it can just be cheerleading or really general "point out if anything is a big problem". I found out this week i am a "phenomenal cheerleader" -- your friends, or some kind soul on a discord, don't need to give you literary analysis to say "this part is cool, your fic is good, i hope you publish!"

Fandom is shared joy. Share your joy in every way - cheerleading others, getting other to share joy with you on your works, leave comments, leave kudos, reblog, make happy posts, keep the negativity to smaller spaces, SHARE THE JOY. I've been in fandom legit longer than some of you have been alive and it's always the joy, that's what it always comes back to. Hold onto the joy, that's what will last in your hearts. <3 <3 <3

#answering asks #me #my writing #writing advice #feels presumptuous to tag that but whatever #yes this is a months old ask but as i say i have to wait for the right time #and today's “woke up crying and need a certain kind of distraction”

[peacedolantwins]

Already Gone pt. 2

A/n: hi i finished this at three in the morning so if there’s typos and stuff come yell at me so I can fix it

It had been over a month since the break up when Grayson passed by the back door and heard Ethan on the with someone. When he heard who was on the other line he paused.

“But mom, what if… what if you only get one shot at love? What if she was the one and I blew it? What am I supposed to do?” Just from listening in Grayson knew his brother was close to tears.

Ethan never really wore his heart on his sleeve. He kept it hidden away because if no one can get close it meant he couldn’t get hurt. But he let you in and it hurt more than ever now that you were gone.

All the times he made fun of Grayson for thinking every girl he talked to was his soulmate, he finally got it. You were his and he could feel it.

For the first time in his life, he felt what he could only begin to describe as anger and hate towards his brother. Grayson was supposed to be his best friend, his biggest supporter, the person he could trust with anything and everything. But Grayson was the reason you left. Because he couldn’t at least be civil to girl he cared about with his whole heart.

Grayson couldn’t hear what their mom said to him, but Ethan hung up with a sigh. He knew he had to talk to you but there was a problem with that.

Grayson really didn’t know anything about you. He had no idea where you lived, where you worked, what your number was, he didn’t even really know your last name. Every time his brother would talk about you he pretty much tuned it out. The only thing he really knew was that you often liked to walk home after work because you said it gave you time to just think.

The only reason he knew this was because Ethan would often express his worry about you walking home alone at night and it’s something Grayson would never admit to worrying about too. He knew he would have to go through Ethan’s phone to at least find your number or anything that would help him talk to you.

It was a few days later after he heard the phone call when he had an idea.

“Hey do you mind if I use your computer really quick? Mines updating right now,” he knew Ethan’s contacts were synced up through the cloud so it should be easy for him to get your number.

“Can’t you just use your phone?” Ethan really hasn’t been in the mood to talk to his brother lately.

“No, now come on, please?”

“Fine.”

Grayson went in and saw that his brothers computer was already on. He quickly went through and found your number, glad Ethan hadn’t deleted it.

He also saw the internet tab was already open, just minimized so he opened it and saw another tab was open as well. He was a curious person by nature so he clicked on it, not knowing he was about to see something he never wanted to see.

Ethan was looking at houses for sale nearby. And by the looks of it, he found one.

Grayson couldn’t believe it. His brother was planning on moving and he never even mentioned it. What happened to their plans of getting houses on the same land together? Why would he be leaving?

“What the fuck are you doing?” Ethan walked and saw what his brother was looking at and quickly closed the tab.

“Me? What the fuck are you doing? You’re looking at houses Ethan! You’re just gonna leave and not say anything? Why do you even want to leave?”

“After everything, I think I just need my own space. Somewhere where I can bring someone over without you throwing a fit over it. We’re going to have to separate eventually Grayson, might as well get it over with.”

“Yeah, eventually! When we have wives and families! Not now!”

“How am I supposed to have a wife when you chased away the girl I care about huh? Can’t have a wife if I don’t have a girlfriend dumbass. So yeah, I think it’s time we separate.” Ethan really didn’t want to have this conversation.

“Ethan- no. Look I’m sorry, but please man… just don’t.” Grayson didn’t like how he had less time with his brother with you around but now he would so gladly take that over his big brother completely leaving him.

“It’s already done. You say you’re the responsible one out of the two of us. So grow up and accept it. It should be about another week while everything goes through then I’m gone. Now get out of my room.”

Grayson quietly got up and left the room. He knew he fucked up. He knew since he heard you two broke up but now knowing he fucked up to the point where his own brother didn’t want to live with him anymore hurt in a way he didn’t think was possible.

What he didn’t know was the full reason why Ethan wanted to leave. Yes, they were going to split up eventually but Ethan couldn’t be in that house anymore. Everywhere he went, it was like he saw your ghost.

Every time he walked into his room and saw the pink wall he just thought of how you teased him the first time you saw it and asked if he was planning on having a baby girl already. Every time he walked into the kitchen he saw you sitting on the counter because you couldn’t cook for shit but you were there for moral and emotional support. He saw you passed out on the couch taking a nap.

But he also saw you on that same couch with tears in your eyes saying you two needed to break up. Every time he walked into the house he remembered it as the spot where you two kissed goodbye for the last time.

Something Ethan never mentioned to anyone was just how committed to you he really was. You had been dating for ten months and he knew you were the one. You had put up with Graysons attitude that whole time and never made a big deal about it.

He had even started looking at engagement rings.

Maybe he was going too far too fast but he just knew you were it for him since the very beginning. So yeah, he had to get out of this house.

While Grayson was still trying to process everything, me knew he had to call you. He was even more surprised when you answered right away.

“Grayson? Is everything okay?” You had his number saved because you wanted to have it Incase there was ever an emergency while you and Ethan were together.

“Um actually I was hoping we could talk?” He didn’t know how you knew it was him calling but that wasn’t important right now.

“Grayson, I tried talking to you. It never goes well.”

“Please, just hear me out. After that I won’t bother you, but please?” He didn’t care if he had to beg you at this point.

“Fine. Meet me after work.” You told him where and when and he said he’d be there.

A few hours later you surprised him when you walked up to his car and tapped on his window. You could recognize his douchebag car anywhere. He unlocked the car and you got in the passenger side.

“So?” While before you had done everything to stay in Graysons good graces, you didn’t really care anymore. He got what he wanted. You were out of his and Ethan’s life. He’s taken enough from you.

“Y/n I’m sorry for how I was around you. I never gave you a chance and I know how shitty I was to you. Especially the last time we talked. But I can try and explain to you why.” He went on to tell you about how he was just scared of losing his brother even though rationally he knew that wasn’t happening. He also noticed you had lost a bit of weight and your eyes weren’t as bright as he remembered them being.

While he explained everything, while you didn’t agree, you could see where he was coming from. You knew going into the relationship that they were inseparable but there were other ways that Grayson could have expressed he wanted to spend more time with his brother.

So when he told you that Ethan bought another house and was planning on moving out, you couldn’t believe it. You had broken both of your hearts to keep the peace between them but it seems the pain was for nothing.

“No. Why didn’t you talk him out of it?”

“I tried but it was already too late by the time I found out. Please come back. And not just because of this but because I know he’s hurting. He has been since the night you left. And I can see you are too. If he still wants to leave, fine but I want him to at least be happy.” He could learn to be okay with his brother gone. But knowing his brother would be gone and possibly hate him was something he couldn’t live without at least trying to fix what he ruined.

Looking back on it, he should have seen how good you two were together. You both worked like a machine together, two pieces working in perfect harmony. You would support Ethan’s crazy adventures and he helped pull you out of your shell. But when Ethan went too far, you were there to keep him grounded. And now both of you were falling because of him.

“Is he home?” You asked after some thinking. You didn’t know if he would even want to see you but you knew you definitely wanted to see him.

“Yeah, he said he was going to start packing…” Grayson hated that sentence even coming out of his mouth.

“Well lets go then.”

A short drive later you found yourself sitting in the parked car outside the house. You didn’t think you would be this nervous about going in.

“Do you mind if I go first? Just to talk to him alone?” You asked Grayson quietly.

“Go ahead.” You got out of the car and went up to the door. You remembered the key code but you weren’t sure about just walking in so you knocked on the door. You could hear music coming from inside so you assumed he just couldn’t hear you. As you were about to knock even louder, it seems Grayson had a different solution.

Ethan was laying on his bed and taking a break from packing a few things when he heard an obnoxious honk coming from outside and he knew just from the sound it was Graysons car. Annoyed, he got up and went to the door but stopped when he saw you through the glass and he hesitantly opened the door.

“Hey E,” you smiled up at him.

“Y/n…” he immediately pulled you into a hug and wrapped his arms around you. It felt amazing to be back in those arms you missed so much but he was slowly crushing you.

“Killing me here,” you gently tapped his back so he would loosen up. “Let’s go inside yeah?”

The two of you sat down on the couch, right back where everything came apart the last time you were here, and you both just sat there not really knowing what to say.

“So Grayson called me and we talked.” Ethan raised his brows at that, knowing how his brother felt about you. “I know, I was surprised too. But he told me why he did what he did. It was a shitty excuse but I get it. He didn’t want to lose his big brother. But he also told me that’s what’s happening isn’t it?”

“And don’t give me that cop out excuse of saying it was going to happen eventually. Why are you pushing for it so fast?” You took his face in one of your hands and brushed your thumb over his cheek. He closed his eyes and leaned into your touch.

“I can’t be in this house anymore without you here. Everything reminds me of you and I just can’t Y/n.” He said it so quietly it was hard to hear.

“Can we try again? And not just because of all of this mess. Ethan, we were good together. I can work on things with Grayson, but please give us another chance?” You never wanted any of it to end but when it did you knew it was the worst mistake of your life.

“Yes,” He pulled your face to his and brought your lips together. He couldn’t even explain how much he missed you. How much he missed this.

He moved you so you were now straddling his lap, lips still connected. He kept his grip on you firm but gentle, scared that if he let go and opened his eyes you would be gone and this was all a dream.

“Are you guys done yet? It’s fucking cold out here,” The moment was interrupted by Grayson pounding on the front door. You two broke apart to see him standing outside and remembered that it was a somewhat cold night for California standards.

“Yeah get in here Gray,” Ethan waved him in while you got off his lap.

“So… are we okay?” Grayson asked his brother.

“We’re okay. But bro, if you ever pull some shit like that again I’m gone,” he warned him.

“I know, I know. Don’t worry,” he looked over to you. “Y/n, are we good?”

“We’re good. Just don’t be an asshole and we’ll be good.” Ethan couldn’t help but laugh at how more blunt you were being with his brother. Before you would tiptoe around him but now you were fully standing up for yourself and not taking his shit anymore. He was proud of you.

“Come on, get in here,” you opened up your arms to give him a hug. As you wrapped your arms around him you couldn’t help but realize this was the first time you two had ever hugged and felt your eyes water a bit.

“Wait, what’s wrong?” Grayson asked when he pulled away and saw the tears about to fall.

“Nothing, just… were finally all okay.” You smiled and felt Ethan wrap an arm around you. He let you go before and there was no way he was letting that happen again. He had everything he ever wanted in front of him and he wasn’t going to lose it this time.

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[thesims4blogger]

The Sims 4: New Game Patch (September 5th, 2019)

Remove all MODS and Custom Content before updating your game

UPDATE: 9/5/2019 – PC 1.55.105.1020 / Mac 1.55.105.1220

Welcome simmers and aspiring spellcasters alike! While we wait a few more short days for Realm of Magic to release, you can pass the time with this fun update. Read on and you’ll find details of a long-requested Build feature that’s been added to the game. There’s also a whole bunch of new clothing and objects, both in recognition of The Sims 4’s 5th anniversary, as well as making even more simmers from around the world feel welcome within the game. And as always, a number of important issues have been addressed to make your experience that much better.

-SimGuruRomeo, Ft. SimGuruGraham

NEW CONTENT

Configurable Stairs

There’s magic in the air, and the candle summoning circles you’ve been sending us via Twitter in an effort to will new types of stairs into existence has worked! Configurable stairs have been added to the game, giving you the ability to create stairs that are L-shaped, U-shaped, and more! Excited to try them out? Simply place any set of stairs down in build mode, and you’ll notice a new widget that appears… it’s a box with two arrows attached to it. Grab onto that with your cursor and drag, and suddenly your stairs will be bent 90º! Keep dragging, and the stairs will bend 180º. Once you’ve bent your stairs, you’ll see another two widgets appear. A diagonal arrow above the newly-added landing will let you adjust the height of the landing within the staircase. A curved arrow at the base of the stairs will allow you to continue to rotate the direction of the stairs beneath the landing. For times when a single landing just isn’t enough, you can keep adding additional bends to your stairs–as long as they’re tall enough to have room for another one. I think that just about covers the basics; so get in there and try it out, experiment, and create some amazing new builds!

5th Anniversary

It’s already been five years since The Sims 4 released; whew–time flies when you’re simming! In celebration of this milestone, we’ve added a set of end-of-summer content so that your Sims can join in the festivities. Invite some friends and family over, fire up the grill, and enjoy a backyard get together with this new content. (FYI – the new stilted foundation is perfect for creating a backyard deck!) You’ll even spot some patterns with nods to famous icons of The Sims…

New Clothing

Men’s Long Blazer

Woman’s Summer Party Full Body Outfit

Boy’s Polo Rugby Top

Girl’s Knee-Length Leggings

New Build Content

Fence: “Fence”

Railing: “Stair Railing”

Stair: “Stairs”

Foundation: “Stilt Foundation”

Foundation: “Canvas”

New Objects

Light: “Outdoor Ground Light”

Plant: “Plant Potted Floor”

Living Chair: “Outdoor Seat”

Lounge Chair: “Outdoor Lounger”

Dining Table: “Outdoor Table”

End Table: “Outdoor End Table”

Pedestal: “Upside Down Gnome Decor”

Muslim-Inspired Clothing and Architecture

To help even more of our players express themselves and create Sims that are relevant to their everyday lives, we’ve introduced a set of Muslim-inspired clothing and architecture.

New Clothing

Women

Men

Children

Hijab

Belted Dress

Jacket with Long Skirt

Modest Athletic Wear / Swimsuit

Athletic Hijab

Knitted Kufi

Buttoned Shirt

Girl’s Pleated Dress

Boy’s Buttoned Shirt

New Build Content

Window: “Window 1 Wide Version Angular”

Window: “Window 1 Wide Version Rectangular”

Window: “Window 2 Wide Version Angular”

Door: “Door 1 Wide”

Door: “Door 2 Wide”

Arch: “Arch Door”

Arch: “Arch E”

Tile Wall Pattern: “2 Tone Wall Without Wainscoting or Trim”

FIXES & UPDATES

General Issues

Basements will not create irremovable flooring between levels.

Fixed an issue where Tattoos and Skin Details did not apply on Mac.

Fixed an issue that caused weighting for names, clothing, facial features, and skin tones to skew heavily in specific directions if City Living or Island Living were installed.

Solved the problem where showers were playing a sound even after deleted.

Solved an issue where skin details vanish after randomizing traits, voice, or clothing.

Toddlers now learned how to drink from sippy cups again. Not sure why they were so resistant in the first place; those things are great!

Sims have regained the ability to gradually fill empty homes!

Photo frames will now persist when downloaded from the gallery.

Fixed an issue where when using the console cheat window the screen would go black.

Fixed various save load issues when loading specific households.

Sims are now able to drown again if you do not have Island Living installed! How were we able to survive without this? Either way, back to drowning!

Certain households will no longer randomly change into nude outfits.

Facebook functionality has been retired.

Friezes can now be applied to individual sides of lower height walls when holding the shift key.

Floor trims on exterior walls will no longer be cut away when a staircase is placed adjacent to the trim on the interior side of the wall.

Fixed a couple of layering issues with tight pants and boots.

Re tuned the values for comfort, decor, fun, hygiene, comfort on several objects.

Fixed various typos.

Fixed various other small issues.

Spooookkyy.

That is…if the option for it is enabled.

If you want Sims to fill empty homes, go to Game Options -> Gameplay -> and check the “Fill Empty Homes” option.

City Living

Teen Sims that are Unflirty can now make out with other teens.

Cats and Dogs

When putting your cuddly friends up for adoption you will no longer be faced with inaccessible UI.

Now your pets will be able to fully complete obstacle courses with Stand Platforms.

Seasons

Fixed a visual issue with fountain decorations being placed next to a pool.

Get Famous

Skills/Tasks are now displayed for every gig and audition in the career panel.

Certain auditions will stop being spammed in the gigs panel.

Teen Sims can no longer run romantic socials with celebrities.

They were reaaaallly desperate for talent.

Island Living

Fixed an issue where seashells liked to stack on top of each other. Not sure why these pesky seashells were so insistent.

Fishing in Sulani now counts towards the “Fish in 3 Spots” Goal.

Players now have the ability to trigger volcanic eruptions with cheats: volcanic_eruption small and volcanic_eruption large!

Children can now drown.

Sims can now drown while riding an Aqua Zip!

Island counters have been added to your Build catalog!

Vampires

Fixed an issue where Vampires were exhibiting their old weaknesses even though they were not applied.

Moschino Stuff

Portrait oriented photos that are submitted are now returned. Those greedy agencies, always trying to steal people’s work.

Fixed some photo approval issues for the Photography Career.

#news #the sims 4 #ts4 #sims 4 #sims 4 game patch #sims 4 patch #patch day

[nakshpatel4569-blog]

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Having a well-crafted resume can be the key for getting your dream job. But figuring out how to craft resume that increase your chances to be getting hired among other candidates?

Well search no more, we have compiled all resume tips over here which will lead you land your dream job.

Tailor your resume before every job you apply for

Read and understand the job description thoroughly and highlight the skills, company requirements, and anything that relates with your experience in your resume needed in the job.

Open yourself to various applications

Don't reject the applications if you can't fulfil all the skills they are looking for. Companies know there's no candidate with ALL the skills and characteristics they want. Besides, they also get tons of applications from total beginners.

So what’s wrong with lacking one or two skills they’re asking for? Nothing, so don’t let it stop you. It all comes down to how valuable you can be to their team, based on your resume.

Choosing the best resume introduction / objective

How you begin your resume depends on several factors. These includes:

What industry you’re part of

What stage your career is in

You’re entering in the field or established in the field

You’re in the midst of career change

Keep these items in mind when writing a resume introduction

Tailor it to the position:

Instead of writing general objective, tailor it specifically for the job you’re applying for. Start by mentioning the job description and highlights the skills or requirements that aligns you to the job role. When you include an objective specific to job role, the recruiter is likely to dig deeper in the resume.

Lead with your strongest attributes: Write the strengths relevant to the job role and also share the attributes which you’re proud of. For example, “Dedicated and experienced,” “Accomplished leader,” or  “Organized and driven”

Describe how you’ll add values to the organization: Managers and employers wants to know how you can add values to their organization. Mentioning values you can add to the organization increases your chances of getting hired with compare to other candidates having same skills and experience.

Where to put the education section in your resume

The two best places for your education section are:

Before your experience section – If you’ve just graduated, consider putting your education section before your experience section because you probably have more educational background than work experience at this point of time.

After your experience section – If you’re established professional, consider putting your work experience before your education because hiring manager or employer will find your work experience much more relevant at this point in your career.

Keep it Recent and Relevant

Only show the most recent and relevant job titles you’ve held. Remove job titles irrelevant to your current professional goals. This frees up space to boost your skills, achievements, or certifications.

Include job relevant certification and awards

Adding job relevant certification and awards, can potentially help you to make your application more convincing. Here are a few examples:

Certifications

Publications

Professional Memberships

Awards & Recognitions

Create a separate section as well to put volunteer work which you have done.

Achievement oriented

Adding achievements to your experience section is one of the best things you can do for your resume. Use method called ‘PAR’ which stands for problem, action and results.

Problem: Identify a responsibility or issue at the workplace

Action: Discuss how you were able to address this problem

Results: What was the outcome of the actions you took?

It gives recruiters a tangible sense of how you use your skills to get results.

Check out the sample: To increase the profit, I implemented reselling strategy for the services we provide, resulting in a 15% increase of profit.

Using digits in the accomplishments

Digits usually stand out in the sea of text as it makes it catchier. Using digits to mention your accomplishments should be put in the start of the sentence.

For example: 20% increase in ROI, by optimizing and automating the email marketing

Try to create curiosity by making the recruiters taking interest in you and hence they will call you.

Make sure the first three words are highlighted and emphasized to make an impression

The first three words and last three words recruiter remembers the most in headlines. Use numbers, results, or power words to make your first three words count.

Don’t write the full life story

Resumes are usually are small and relevant to the job requirement rather than being telling the whole life story. Think it is as an abstract of your present career and potential future.

Avoid writing generic skills

As we know there are two types of skills soft skills and hard skills. It is usually avoided to write the soft skills such as interaction, critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork etc. The reason to it is because these isn’t the necessary tools for a job.

Choose to add your social media links wisely

Any other link apart from LinkedIn is not suggested to add in the resume. However in certain circumstances, linking your social media links can apply your application.

Resume Formatting Tips

Reverse Chronological order

Start your professional history with your current or previous job. Don’t hide your employments using a functional resume, unless you have a long job gap or a similar situation that necessitates it.

Appropriate fonts size

It is usually advised to use the same font size everywhere but you can change the font size especially in the header section or in the main important fields like education, experience and hobbies and interests.

If in doubt use:

Font size 12 is standard

Arial and Times New Roman are the recommended fonts to use

Use caps

Caps are essential part on giving out an emphasis. But do not use the caps on the sentence that might sound controversy.

Length of resume

Limit your resume to two pages. Any more than that and you run the risk of some pages not getting the attention it deserves.

Work on your grammar

Avoid using pronouns especially the personal pronouns like I, me, myself, etc. Usually these pronouns are not used in a resume because the whole resume is talking about yourself.

Application Tracking Software

Many large corporations now use ATS software to sort through the thousands of applications they receive on a regular basis. These systems search for keywords and key phrases relevant to the position they’re hiring for and filter out applicants who did not use the correct vocabulary.

Don’t Use Your College Email

Regarding resume tips for college students: It’s best to avoid using your university email account, especially if you’re about to graduate. Some schools will mercilessly delete your account when you leave – leaving any job related communications you had there gone with the wind.

Proofread and then proofread again.

Even the most confident writer is not immune to typos. Once you’ve finished writing, double-check, and then triple-check your resume for small errors. Ideally, ask a friend to proofread it too in order to provide a second set of eyes.

Save Your Resume as a PDF

While most people just attach their resume to their emails in a .doc format, it’s worth attaching it as a PDF file as well. PDFs retain their formatting regardless of how they are viewed, so they’re your best bet when sending your application out electronically.

Search and apply for the jobs

Search for the job online on Taskiy.net (www.taskiy.net). Taskiy.net allows you to search for the jobs by Title, category, keyword, location and even companies. Thousands of jobs from all over the world are updated on everyday be sure to check frequently.

Include a cover letter in your email

Cover letters are an essential accompaniment to your resume because they provide hiring managers with insight into how your experience matches their requirements. For consistency, try writing a cover letter template that aesthetically complements your resume. We have a cover letter writing strategies as well as cover letter tips if you’re ready to explore at this stage.

Remember to attach all documents in an email

It is nothing more embarrassing then sending an email to hiring manager twice because you forgot to attach all documents in the first email.

Double check the mail body, recipient name, recipient email address, attachments, subject line before sending off any email for the job application.

Last but not Least… Follow Up!

These days it’s expected that you’ll follow up your application with an email or phone call, not just to confirm whether the employer received your application, but also to ask if they had any questions and express your desire to discuss the job in person.

By calling or emailing after sending your resume you are indicating persistence, diligence, and a strong desire to be their number one candidate.

#job #jobs #jobsearch #jobsearchengine #jobplatform

[thestickchick]

Way back in the day, I wrote The Monster Post of Martial Arts Marketing Tips and Tools, intended to help lots of martial arts folks out there with little to no experience in basic marketing principles do better. I wrote it in an effort to help all y'all out there with a few tips and tricks, but of course, it morphed into one of the longest posts I've ever written. Lately, I've been looking at a LOT of martial arts schools sites and social media channels online. And here I am, years after I first wrote the Monster Marketing post, and I'm still seeing the same stuff over and over. Y'all know me, I just can't let this stuff slide. Sooooo...

When it comes to basic marketing... Guys, guys, guys, we can do better than this. For our martial arts styles and systems to survive, we have to do better than this. So here's what I'm seeing these days, and let me offer my advice, so you can pick up your game without killing yourself trying to do tons of work. WEB SITE BASICS Generally speaking, web sites seem to have improved big-time, and for that, I'm grateful.  But here's some stuff I'm running across that makes me wonder how well these sites are working for some of you.

IT AIN'T ABOUT YOU: Please do not make yourself the front-and-center person, with a list of all of your ranks, accomplishments, Hall of Fame entries, tournaments won, and hobbies on your web site's front page.  You can have a short bio on an "Instructors" page but that's it.  I know it's crazy, but people outside of our community don't know or care about that stuff much.

CONTACT INFO: Have a contact name, phone number, and email address for people to contact you, EVEN IF you have a contact form.  It's literally as easy as, "Contact Sensei Joe at [phone] or email [email protected] for more information" in a prominent place (preferably can be seen on EVERY page in the header).

LINKS AND VIDEO: If you have these at all, occasionally check them to make sure they are working.  It's annoying to try to run a video on a site and it isn't functional, or clicking on links that go nowhere.  Especially if it's a link to your own YouTube channel or Facebook page (I do not get all the dead links to Facebook pages that no longer exist, I really don't).

EVENTS: If you have an events page or ticker, make sure you keep this up to date, and remove expired events.  If I click on your events page, I shouldn't seen Belt Testing for Fall 2016 near the top.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Post something - ANYTHING - in every active social media account once a week at a minimum. Show that your school is still active and doing stuff.  You can post pictures of class, stuff from events, announcements, shout-outs to students for doing something good in class, community news for your area, and re-share stuff you find on other sites like martial arts jokes and memes.  I promise you, if a potential student finds your school page on Facebook - and LOTS will - and they see you haven't posted in months or years, they're going to think your school is closed and look elsewhere.

If you don't want to use the social media channel any more, DELETE IT (or at least unpublish it if it's a Facebook page). Don't just leave it out there for potential students to run across. Again, it looks like your school is closed when you do that.

Don't post anything political in your channels. The ONLY exception I can think of is back when Washington State was proposing that martial arts schools pay a sales tax and the schools were urging people to mobilize against it.  Then, it made sense. But that was an exception to the rule.

ADVERTISING SEMINARS AND EVENTS ONLINE

This is driving me nuts, so I'm going to do a big section on this here.

As you can imagine, I'm in a plethora of martial arts communities and pages on Facebook.  And I see lots and lots of announcements of events (seminars and camps for the most part). I see some pretty nice looking seminar announcements - beautiful, even - but there's a problem. Take this as a typical seminar announcement I run across on Facebook:

So what do you think might be wrong with this flyer? Here's the problems I see:

Joe's Karate School... where?  It says "Midwest Gathering" but the "Midwest" consists of at about 7 to 10 states.  That's important to potential attendees.  Additionally, lots of people who see this image may have zero idea where Joe's Karate School is even if they happen to be in the general vicinity, or if it's an even more generic name like "Pride Martial Arts" or "Excel Martial Arts" or some such, it could be in any number of cities in all those states.  Always include the FULL address of the location in ads like this, especially if they are NOT associated to Facebook Events.

No email address.  Give people more than one way to contact the event organizer.

Hard to read: black on blue text doesn't have a lot of contrast and it's hard to read it.  This image also goes a little font crazy.  It's perfectly fine to use simple black text on a white background, folks.

Did you spot the typo (spot fishing)? Make sure there are none, and that's especially important in the contact information (email and phone). You don't want potential seminar attendees accidentally calling the Psychic Hotline (or worse) with a phone number 1 digit off from yours.

So here's what I think is a good, all-purpose flyer, again, without a Facebook event (or even a Meetup or an Eventbrite event or what have you - it's just a digital flyer):

Here's why this one works:

Easy to read - lots of contrast and white space

Address, phone number and email for the seminar is on the flyer.

Date and TIMES are also clearly communicated here, as well as the cost. It's not strictly required, but I like to put the year in my dates, because these images can float around a long time on the internet.

This flyer answers the classic "Who, What, When, Where, Why and How" questions in one big shot.

This flyer is great to use digitally as well as distribute via .pdf OR print out as handouts or signs to put up at your local martial arts supply place.  EVERYTHING someone needs to know is in one graphic.

Here's an alternate image you could use as well, but it MUST be attached to a Facebook event (or again, Meetup or Eventbrite or what have you).

This is where the subject and instructor of the seminar is front and center, and then you put ALL of the information needed (the stuff in the full flyer above) in the Facebook event: email address of the organizer, a phone number, date(s), times(s), location, and payment information. The additional bonus of making a Facebook event is that it allows people to private message the organizer to ask questions. The "Who, What, When, Where, Why and How" is answered in the Facebook Event post instead of the image. Oh, and if you don't know how to create a Facebook event, click HERE for instructions! You'd be amazed how many seminar announcements I see that are missing some of this key information!  The date is missing, or the contact information is missing, or the cost is missing, and all of these are really important for a person to consider if they can attend or not. Also, one more thing - if you're posting an event announcement via your personal page on Facebook, be sure to make that post PUBLIC.  People who aren't your friends won't be able to see it. This post got CRAZY long, didn't it? Well, I had a lot to say on this, and I'm really hoping that you can take what I say here, and in the original Monster Marketing post, and put it to good use. What drives you crazy about martial arts marketing and advertising you find online? Got a question, or disagree with something I said here? Let me know in the comments?

#IFTTT #Blogger #Budoblr #Martial Arts

[it-spongecake]

7 SaaS Landing Page Secrets Proven To Increase Leads

Every element that appears on your landing page should support the other. You’ve developed your SaaS product, and every element of it seems awesome! Your software is ready, you believe in your competitive advantage, and you’ve developed a landing page that will be irresistible to prospects. That helps the prospects see the benefits of what you’re promising. Additionally, it must also have all the convincing points that convert prospects into clients. Moreover, with advanced targeting, you can even offer the prospect a customized landing page experience to help you segment your audience better. Typos and Grammatical Errors: Ensure that your landing page copy is polished. It’s called a landing page because in general, you bring traffic to it through various online sources. Unbounce, ActiveCampaign, and CRO legend Talia Wolf have all teamed up to help you diagnose and optimize any low-converting SaaS landing page. The best part about Hubspot’s landing page technology is the speed at which you can create, delete, edit, and re-create landing pages.

There’s no perfect landing page length. To design and implement the perfect landing page you need to align your copy with it. In most cases, a SaaS WordPress landing page includes an opening header, social proof, and an explanation as to why the product is the perfect solution to the target users’ problems. Perhaps the software doesn’t need tweaking at all, but the problem revolves around the landing page that represents it in front of consumers. Not only do you need to know who your ideal customer is, but you also need to know who you’re targeting in your marketing funnel. That is, you need to build your email list. Why do you need a funnel building software program? That doesn’t mean that your software is bad. Few users respond to it, and even the ones they open it do not fill out a form, don’t want the free trial, and worse of all, are not interested in using your software. Pompous Promises: Show’em, don’t just tell’em. You don’t want a ten-minute trial video on your LP that sends your customers bouncing in the blink of an eye.

False Testimonials: Don’t insert client testimonials if you don’t have genuine ones. This is true because there is not a physical store where the potential customers can have a one-on-one conversation with the manager. As a potential customer scrolls down the landing page, they’ll encounter multiple calls-to-action leading to a page where they can buy a cover. That means that your landing pages shouldn’t have links and areas where the users can navigate to another page of your website. Other key “relevance messages” should be readily scannable through choosing the right headlines and with panels drawing the eye to the different areas. There are a multitude of different ways you can boost your conversion rates, but if you really want to take your SaaS business to the next level, optimizing your SaaS landing pages is key. Lead Flow: Landing pages have the power to bring you more users and leads for your product, and as a result, better conversion rates. According to the 2020 Conversion Benchmark Report, the conversion rate of the SaaS landing pages is 10.46% lower than those in other industries. That’s why the landing page highlights some less-obvious benefits, like free shipping, easy returns, and excellent customer service.

Before we look at the best practices in detail, we should look at landing page definitions. With a customizable WordPress landing page, you can address the needs of your target buyers. In spite of so many Content Management systems available on the marketplace, WordPress remains the most customizable solution for a landing page, and web development in general. In essence, your landing page is a place where consumers can land so that you may convince them to answer positively to your CTA. Without further ado, let’s discuss some tactics that will make your WordPress SaaS landing pages a place where users simply cannot say ‘No’. You can’t hope that readers will accidentally try the product just to see whether it works for them or not. The only way to be sure of what works for your audience and your market is to conduct tests such as usability studies, A/B testing, or multivariate testing.

In order to persuade your target audience to take action, you need to be relevant to their needs and use every section to remove friction across the decision-making journey. If you know exactly the problem your target audience needs to be fixed, you’ve got the upper hand. If you’ve done everything you can to speed up your landing page on your own, but the site speed is not satisfactory, it may be time for a hosting switch. You can build your landing page directly from the WordPress dashboard, or you can choose a landing page creator and implement the page in the CMS. The success of your SaaS business depends on the landing page engagement. SevenAtoms built this example of an e-commerce landing page to sell a product, the Nordic wooden hanging wall lamp. A landing page is a page on your website that instructs your target users to take a certain action.

#SaaS #ui #ux #design #landing page

[local-ragamuffin]

RP Rules

Alrighty so I’m heavily considering starting to roleplay on this platform. It’ll be difficult but I figure I might as well post my rules on here.

1. I DO NOT DO SMUT OR 18+ CONTENT. I’m asexual, so naturally smut and nsfw content makes me uncomfortable. 

2. If the roleplay is a romance roleplay, please understand that it is nothing more than roleplay. I do not have romantic or sexual feelings for you just because we are roleplaying a romantic scenario. 

3. In a romance setting, I am okay with fluff and maybe a bit of angst. Nothing serious, just something along the lines of one person comforting the other when they are sad/frightened/angry/etc. 

4. Please tell me who you will be roleplaying as, what your boundaries are, and how much you write in a single response before we start. I don’t want to make you uncomfortable by accidentally triggering you.

5. Please try to respond when you can. If you vanish without giving a reason beforehand, I may assume you are losing interest in the roleplay or something is happening that prevents you from responding. If you forget, that’s okay! I usually don’t delete conversations. 

6. I can only be one character at a time, and I can only be characters I have created. I have trouble roleplaying as someone unless I know how they would act in every single scenario. Being multiple characters at once is overwhelming.

7. REAL LIFE COMES FIRST. I cannot stress this enough. If there is a problem in real life, if you have to sleep, shower, eat, practice self care in any way, or complete an important task not listed, PLEASE DO THAT BEFORE YOU RESPOND. The same goes for me. Once the spring semester begins I will be less active due to the fact that I’ll be taking more classes each week.

8. Please use proper spelling and grammar... I have to restrain myself from correcting spelling and grammar mistakes people make in roleplay ALL THE TIME on Amino, and it is infuriating. A typo here and there is okay, but... Please try to proofread your response before hitting send.

9. Understand that I am still learning how to properly use Tumblr. Therefore my responses may be a bit slow, and I may not see your messages right away. Please be patient.

10. Please use brackets or parentheses when out of character once the roleplay has begun. Also, please don’t use fonts that are hard to read such as Zalgo text, script fonts, or other complex fonts. It makes it really hard for me to understand what you’re saying. Also Zalgo text just gives me a headache.

11. All that being said, please remember to have fun! Let me know at any time if you are not enjoying the roleplay experience for any reason and I will do my best to make things more fun. I will do the same and expect you to adjust if I am not enjoying myself. If you ever feel the need to leave the roleplay, please let me know! I understand that boredom is common in roleplayers as the plot goes on and on and on and on and- you get the point. Communication is key! 

My OCs will be available as soon as I can figure out a good way to post them here to fit with Tumblr’s formatting.

#RP Rules #local-ragamuffin #important

[oumakokichi]

If you don't mind me asking, do you have any writing tips or advice on how to write things or sentences naturally?

The best advice I can offer is tojust practice, practice, practice, really. Writing is one of those things wherethe individual style is always going to differ from person to person, so it’simportant to just try and write as much as you can and find which stylepersonally fits you best!  Whether youprefer writing in present tense or past tense, using first person, secondperson, third person, etc.—these are all things that you should reallyexperiment with firsthand to decide what you’re most comfortable with.

You don’t have to practice forlong, either! Even just writing a short drabble or using a randomly generated promptwould do. If you can’t write every day to practice, just try writing when youdo have some free time! I would personally recommend trying to get someone tobeta-read for you, like a friend or family member, but if you’re notcomfortable showing your writing to anyone right away it’s okay to just read itover yourself.

The hardest thing to do is toseparate yourself from your own writing. I often run into the problem of findingit really difficult to go back over something I’ve just written, because Ieither skim through it as fast as possible or find myself extra harsh on it, alot harsher than I would be with someone else’s writing. One thing artists andwriters alike have in common is usually this tendency to over-criticizeourselves and to be way too hard on ourselves, so it’s important to first tryand get the hang of rereading your own work without treating it too differentlythan anyone else’s work.

Once you’re able to do that, itshould be a lot easier to go back and double-check your writing. First, you’llwant to check all the basics—see if there are any typos, basic grammarmistakes, inconsistencies, etc. But once you’ve done that, the next step is tosee if it sounds and feels natural. If you’re having trouble reading from oneline or paragraph to the next, it’s possible there might be something wrongwith the way the sentence is worded. A shift in tense, an awkward word choice,or a run-on sentence could all make the writing feel clunky and stiff.

My advice is to just go backover your writing and look for these things after you’ve had some time (be it afew hours or a few days) to distance yourself from just writing it. Read it toyourself carefully and try and really get a grasp of how it sounds. Does itsound like something you’d be able to read out loud to someone else? Or does itstill sound awkward somehow? If the answer is the latter, you may need to goback and revise the sentence again until it really does shine when read aloud.

The flow of the story is alwaysimportant, in anything you write. Whether your story is extremely long or very,very short, it’s going to have a particular rhythm and tempo to it, and it’simportant to maintain that flow. Breaks in tempo can be done intentionally fordramatic effect, to highlight a really important scene or a character not beingable to comprehend something, but they should probably be used sparingly. Ifyou can really nail that tempo and flow, your story will make a much more lastingimpact with the reader. I’d recommend going back over your writing andpolishing it until it really does sound like it flows from one sentence to thenext.

Finally, just try to make sureeveryone’s in character! Always keep in mind who’s talking during dialogue, howthey refer to other characters, what kind of language they use, etc. A superrough, informal character wouldn’t suddenly talk stiffly or politely, andvice-versa. Having characters be presented OOC can really make it hard for areader to get immersed in the story, so it’s important to just make sureeveryone sounds natural.

If you have a hard time writingdialogue in particular, I’d recommend looking back at things characters havealready said in their original source material for examples! Even if you’rewriting original fiction instead of fanfiction, chances are you’re always goingto be able to find a few similarities in common with OCs and preexistingcharacters, so it’s fine to use the way a certain character talks or acts as atemplate for how you’d like to write your own.

All in all, it’s going to be reallyhard. There are still times when I’ll write for three hours straight, go backand look at what I’ve read, and be tempted to delete all of it, because I feellike it’s just not up to par with how I want it to be. If you feel like you’restruggling, try to remind yourself again not to be too critical, and giveyourself some time to go back over the parts you don’t like in the morning orat least a few hours later, to see if you like them any better when going overthem again with a fresh eye.

Even if you feel like “I can’twrite,” or “this sucks,” just keep going! Even 500 words is more progress than0 words, and every writer I’ve ever met has struggled with writer’s block andfeeling self-conscious about their own work. Sometimes even the things youmight feel the most critical about in your own work will be reallywell-received by readers; you’d be surprised! I’ve had people tell me theyreally enjoyed parts of my writing that I couldn’t stand to look at for fivemore seconds, and that encouraged me to try going back and rereading thoseparts myself with a little more leniency.

All in all, the best key tomaking your writing sound more natural is to just write as much as possible. Whetherit’s fanfiction or original fiction, it doesn’t matter! Any time you get aprompt, or have a character you’re really passionate about and want to writeabout, just try writing a little something down. Even if you just save it as arough draft on your computer and forget about it, you might come back a fewmonths later to find you really like what you wrote back then.

I hope I was able to help alittle, anon! I’m really glad if I can give any writing advice, because I knowhow tough it can be!

#ask #opinions #writing advice #okay to reblog #i think writing advice is just going to be my tag for these kinds of questions from now on! #i've been getting a few so this should make it easier to find them in the future #i really hope i could help! #anonymous

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5 Passive Income Ideas That You Can Action Now.

Are you fed up of spending every waking hour working hard each day to make other people rich? Working 9-5, living pay slip to pay slip and never having enough money to actually save or have enough time to spend on the things you actually enjoy doing.

Well, the answer to this problem is passive income. You have a finite time to live on this planet, and the majority of that time is traded for a little bit of money. Wealthy people know this and change the equation and spend their time building their revenue streams to give them a passive income.

So to help you understand what things can help build a passive income revenue stream, and build one yourself, we have put together a list of 5 ways to earn a passive income.

Every idea on this list can be actioned and completed within a month or two and can earn passive income for years to come. So start now by spending some of your valuable time (when you’re not using it to make someone else richer) on one or more of these ideas and completely change your life for the better.

Idea 1: Write an ebook

Ebooks might not seem as profitable as other online revenue streams, but in my experience, they can be a great product to source a longterm passive income. An ebook can be something that you can put together within a month which could generate a passive income for years to come.

The reasons I love ebooks are;

They are relatively quick to put together and there is no real ongoing work once it has been completed (depending on your topic that is). You may need to update them from time to time, but generally speaking, it should look after its self.

Ebooks can earn you a passive income for years! Other streams of passive income sources can die out really quickly if you don’t keep them up to date. In my experience, an ebook that is based on an evergreen topic will keep generating an income for years.

You don’t have to be an amazing writer or even an expert to generate an income from an ebook. Many people will not write one as they are too scared, as they believe they don’t know enough about the topic and they think that they are not very good at writing. You just need to be brave, pick a topic that you know something about, and have an interest in and start. Write what you know about the topic and if you’re not already an expert then don’t pretend to be.

You can write your ebook from the perspective of a beginner, which might actually help your audience relate to you.

So how do you get started?

The best thing to do is just start. Think of a topic that you’re passionate in, and set up your Word Doc. Most eBooks are 50,000 words, but if you can write about 30,000 words then you’ll probably be fine. Once you’re done get a friend to proofread it, this will help fix typos or grammar issues.

Once you’re happy with your ebook, the next step is to get it published. smashwords.com is a great site that can help you with this. You can upload your Word document and they will convert it into the correct file type ready for distribution. They are able to get your ebook onto major distribution channels, such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all other major e-book sites.

If you have a website, Youtube channel or social media following then you can use these to market your ebook as well.

It’s best to keep plugin your ebook to your market audience to increase the numbers seeing your published ebook.

Time to earn: 1 month Potential earning longevity: 10 years Earning potential for 30 days work: £100 – £1000 per month, but this depends on how you market it. Ongoing work: Almost none (depending on your choice of topic).

Idea 2: Build a passive income website

Here is the basic idea of building a passive income website. Take the same type of content that you would create an ebook and put it on your own website. If you target the right keywords (SEO) then with about 30 posts you can get enough traffic to earn a good income.

There are 3 ways you can earn income from your posts;

Affiliate products – you link to products that other people are selling (on Amazon or various other sites) and you earn a commission for every sale.

Advertising – Once you start to get some traffic, you can place ads from premium ad networks (like Google Adsense).

Information products – You can take some of your content and organise it into a premium content package. It can be in the format of a written guide, audio guide, or video course. You can then start selling this on your own site to those who want the premium content.

One key thing to building a passive income website is to make sure that you’re consistent. The biggest mistake that most people make is that they quit too soon. They write 30 + articles that don’t generate any money for 3 months they then give up and delete the site. Remember it is quite normal for a site to take 3-6months for its content to start bringing in any substantial amount of traffic.

It can be really easy to be overwhelmed when building a website from scratch, there is really a lot to think about, and a lot of things that need to be right on your site for it to get traction. If you’re not technically minded or don’t have the time to put together your site, then you can purchase a ready-made site with all of the technical bits and pieces in place. Click here for more info

Time to earn: 3-6 months Potential earning longevity: 2 to 15 years depending on the topic Earning potential for 30 days work: £500 to £5,000 per month Ongoing work required: Monthly updates, tweaks too content and weekly to fortnightly content writing.

Idea 3: Start a YouTube channel

Youtube is a huge opportunity for anyone looking to earn a passive income. Youtube can work just like a website. You pick a topic you can share information about and then start recording videos. The best way to do this is to keep them simple to start with, you can use your phone and YouTube video editor to give your self a starting point.

Once your channel starts to get views, you can start making money with ads. But that not even the best part. You can also recommend affiliate products and even sell your own information products from your channel.

The best way to start would be to spend a month making 30 or so videos. Upload them to your YouTube channel and schedule them to post once a week for 30 weeks. If it starts to pick up and you get positive view count and subscribers then you can decide to make more videos to keep promoting your affiliate products and your own products.

Time to earn: 5 -10 months Potential earning longevity: 1 to 5 years Earning potential for 30 days of work: £500 per month Ongoing work required: Adding more video content on a regular basis will dramatically grow your earnings.

Idea 4: Record a podcast

A podcast works in a similar way to a Youtube channel, it’s just through a different medium. You will need to record your podcast a bit like a TV show by adding seasons. Spend the next month recording 30 episodes on any topic that you’re interested in and schedule them to go out one a week. Podcasts work best if they are informative and entertaining. Think about how it is going to be listened to, most people will be listening to your podcast whilst driving or at the gym, don’t give them too much to do whilst they are listening.

Time to earn: 1 month Potential earning longevity: less than 2 years Earning potential for 30 days of work: £50 to £500 Ongoing working required: Just like a Youtube channel, the more content you create on a regular basis, the more your earnings will grow.

Idea 5: Start investing

Investing is the most important source of passive income over the course of your life. If you’re not putting money aside into some kind of investment then you’re missing out on more money.

The difference in how much wealth you can accumulate if you start investing is astounding. Every wealthy person on the planet understands how to make their money work for them and not the other way round.

There are a few ways that you can get started with investing. You can invest in commodities such as gold & silver, stocks or buying assets, like buy-to-let housing, that generate cash flow. Set aside a little bit of money every month, and build up a bit of a surplus. The idea is to create a bit of a buffer with money that you can afford to lose if everything goes south in your investment portfolio. You can decide where to put this money but the idea is to convert it into an asset that generates more money. Make your money work for you rather than you working for money.

If you don’t know anything about investing I would suggest that you spend some time learning as much as you can about it. A great place to start would be Rich dad poor dad, Robert Kiyosaki does a very good job in explaining how investing works in a simple way and will give you a solid base to start from.

Time to earn: immediately Potential earning longevity: Forever Earning potential for 30 days of work: infinite Ongoing work required: check in occasionally, learn as you grow, invest more.

Conclusion

All of the above ideas are a great way to start building your finances so that you can begin to have a bit more freedom within your life. Although each of the ideas will take a bit of work, to begin with, once the foundations have been built it they will pretty much look after themselves. The biggest hurdle to all of this is getting started. So free up some of your valuable time, and put it to good use, something that you will benefit from in the long term.

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Credit where credit is due

Yup, I now see the sillyness of believing I was their worst student yet. I wrote my first little CRUD program this week on ruby, with classes that follow the MVC method. Of all the things that they could have asked of us to create on Friday after the morning lecture, they asked us to code a small CRUD program to add recipes with descriptions and ingredients required into a .csv file, have them load or save, depending on the method called upon them, the ability to read or add or delete items from the repository. RECIPES! Of all the things! Who ever said serendipity is gone?!

In my own extra time, seeing as I  was surprisingly early to finish the assignment that day, I  implemented a method to mark multiple items at a time (by storing them in a temporary array) in order to delete them or mark them as “having been made with good results” or “has potential but needs adjustments to the recipe”. 

All of my life it seems to me that I have been putting a lot of effort in order to get some form of validation, with oftentimes not receiving any and not being able to recognise it enough for myself to pat my own back, as it were. This though, this is like-instant gratification. I am a bit worried about the workaholic in me, since while there may be ‘AHA!’ or ‘EUREKA’ moments, there is a lot of frustration when things don’t work. Especially when it is because of a small typo or having forgotten that a specific attribute needs to be write-able too not only readable.

The beauty of object oriented programming is getting to me now. I am still confused on the reason we want to separate methods and classes in different files. I think it has a lot to do with compartmentalisation and the speed of the code’s execution but it becomes more confusing when you have to keep track of the class of each method and where it is called and the actual object you are calling it on in order to know whether to use a class or instance method etc etc. 

The progress is tangible though, I have very rarely felt this so often in a week of learning anything. I really wish I could shut up more though when coding, and not smashing my fist on top of the table when I am debugging and am foolish enough to think “Surely, after half an hour, after all of these trials, NOW, now what I’m gonna do to solve it surely has to work this time, it makes PERFECT SENSE!”. And then it doesn’t work. That I need to sort out as I would think it would make me be a very disagreeable co-worker. Or, or.. I could work from home, do freelance. I need to look into it but yeah, that is a problem for future Nikos, once again. Now, I need to get to some flashcards I didn’t do yet before starting the new week and to make sure that I have understood the key concepts and haven’t grossly misinterpreted some pretty important distinctions!

I’ve got to hand it to Le Wagon, this is actually turning out to be some of the best, most rewarding weeks of my life! At the core I am a misanthrope and very grumpy person. I never would have thought it possible that I would be looking forward to see the fellow students and the team of Le Wagon. The weekly hangout session for beers on the last day of each week is very healthy and I am not a very social or sociable person. But I am actually looking forward to it and these gatherings called Data Beer(s) that have come to Brussels.

Used to believe there weren’t many decent people left with decent values and morals. Every week I keep being pleasantly surprised.

Until next week!

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What's The Difference: Writing An Article Vs Writing A Blog Post - How Writers Can Earn More

Which is kind of the thing about most blogging advice.

Your service or product is your voice, Your area of expertise is your worldview.

Your interests and passions range across a whole inner landscape. It's a well fiction Writer. Relates to why readers get obsessed with books and authors, the things that keep the writer up at night. With that said, this also encourages people to find that core thread in their work -the questions you mention. I have one client with whom I always use the word article when talking about these pieces, and another with whom I use the word blog.

Time to raise my rates for the blog client and remember to use the word article when appropriate!

Not surprisingly, rates for my article client are a big bit higher than my blog client for quite similar work.

Danielle, there's nobody best thing to blog about if there were, every single blog will be about it, right? It's intending to depend on your experience and interests, and your research into whether a particular niche is easily monetized or not. Their audience doesn't care. However, a couple of us are sticklers for grammar and some not, Shivani…I know p bloggers who have a typo in every article, and are earning huge sums. With all that said... It depends on the audience. I'm sure it sounds familiar. I've even seen ebooks that are riddled with grammar and spelling quite a few more at $ 600- $ 2000, determined by length and complexity. Remember, where most writers are lucky to get $ 100 a post for blog posts and I recommend you try to make that your floor for blog writing article rates are usually a whole lot better.

One difference between a blog post and a magazine article is that blog posts often contain links to other posts on a company's site, that is a means of keeping the reader on the site for as long as possible.

They are written so that shows readers how they can benefit from these services, albeit these can be articles.

Articles for corporate blogs, for sake of example, often discuss some problem in the industry and after that illustrate how the company is working to solve it. I agree that posts are essentially articles and might be compensated as such, especially when you must have deep knowledge of a company or industry to write the material, the word blog sounds hipper. Blog posts are often written with the intention of convincing readers that they need a particular service offered by the company. Let me tell you something. These posts have great value to companies as they may result in thousands of dollars of business every time a tally new client is acquired and a sale is made. I think they thought they'd get a n of unqualified people if they knew who the employer was.

I responded to one ad once, for example, and it turned out to be a website owned by CBS. I agree quite a few there are scams, there can be legit reasons for not revealing the company. Recently, I got plenty of response to my call for freelance writers to stop writing blog posts. Lots of writers were confused about just what the difference is. That's not the dividing line. Shampa, look, there're certainly articles that lack interviews, and blog posts that have them. I mean technically, an article is in a magazine, and a blog post is on a blog…but the point of my article is that if you look for to be paid more for blogging, you have to do work more on the order of what you'd do for a typical article namely, interviews and more indepth research. Nonetheless, sEO focused junk writing will never pay well, and it's also a shrinking marketplace, would start moving away from the stigma of a blog post being a cheap fix. Here's what to do instead. It doesn't have to be complex. Normally, even simple sentences can be well written. As a result, I disagree with you on one point. For example, it's a really helpful post. We must always encourage people to write with correct spelling and grammar as that helps the case for clear writing. However, they presented interesting data. Posts got longer as bloggers sought to stand out and deliver more value, until 1000 words has become fairly standard, and 2000 word posts are not uncommon. Blog posts began to have more interviews. Nevertheless, sEO keywords' value lessened as Google cracked down on 'keywordstuffed' content. As blogs got more professional, lots of hired editors. Sometimes these get mixed by many who may consider it to be essentially identical. Very much interesting and enlightening comparison which most people often miss. Thanks and I going to be sharing. You see, this excellent write up will also what actually is expected of them as they take a venture. Notice that you also get the bonus of learning to report a story, that lays the groundwork for getting betterpaying articles in future, from businesses or magazines.

Have the advantage of giving you more impressive clips for your portfolio, loads of smaller daily papers pay in the $ 75- $ 100 range for short articles. I would like to ask you something. I am working on my autobiography and someone suggested that I do a blog instead but I have to find out whether that is the writer forum for my story plus how do I protect the rights to my story?

Will you not suggest writing an autobiography on a blog?

I come from a journalism background so I'm comfortable with the more traditional article approach.

I've tried doing some seo content writing and found it really difficult and not very enjoyable. Thanks for the clarification, it's really useful to be aware of this developing trend. We look for posts to be fun and easy to read, not stuffy and dry. We expect factual and wellsourced posts, not rambling rehashes of other people's work or wild conjecture, Accuracy and strong attention to detail are an absolute must. Now let me tell you something. It's a good idea to also be cognizant of online publishing realities and be able to use key search engine keywords in your posts and headlines without sounding robotic, you must have an ideal ear for language.

It's a high visibility opportunity and we are looking for the very best writing talent, that is why we pay a premium over other blogs. We look for to hear from you, Therefore if you think you are a great fit. I have recently started my own blog. Actually, I also write poetry. Also, how should I market that to my readers? I'm sure you heard about this. In order for me to get it up and running I've been doing some research. Should that also correlate to your blog, as far as the articles. Is it best to keep it to the theme of the blog or write about what interests you? So, my question for you is what really is better thing to blog about? I like the fact that you distinguished between an article and a blog. It must definitely stick to a niche, though all successful blogs do.

I have a couple resources to recommend on blogging I learned to build my blog from AList Blogging's Kickstart Your Blog course, and my How to Be a Well Paid Freelance Blogger e book is packed with tips on how to leverage your personal blog to get paying gigs from clients.

Your blog post has come out at the right time.

I am sure they need to be educated about the difference between blog post and article. Basically, I wish to say that all the time, those hire writers are not clear about exactly what they look for. It's more ‘blog post' type writing than article writing. Besides, I wouldn't expect to be well paid for this work type. Since you're not adding any value, simply recycling previously written biographies is more of a blog post.

Uneducated clients who don't really know these two forms been busy muddying up the conversation about them for years. That's made it hard for writers to define writing projects and bid them appropriately. Mostly, copyright attaches at the time of publication on your blog, and you can prove when you wrote it because of how blogs date things…and who is planning to steal your life story? I think most people who're blogging a book don't put it all on their blog they put parts of it, and similar parts are exclusive to the final book. For instance, probably not a huge concern. Lots of print magazines began posting copies of their articles online. They published more opiniondriven pieces from thought leaders. Some also put up blogs where they let writers hit the ‘publish' button on their own. That's interesting. Suddenly, magazine headlines needed to drive traffic, just like blogpost headlines, and headline styles evolved. Yes, that's right! On the 'articlewriting' side, there was also movement. Now look. They impress more of your client's customers.

Then the projects might be more successful, and those clients gonna be more going to hire you back to write more.

As long as they'll be happier with the results they get, it's a classic 'win' you can charge more at the start. I'm sure that the fact is, articles and articlestyle blog posts convey more authority. Do not send story clips as an attachment. Nonetheless, applications that do not meet shall not be considered really. Now regarding the aforementioned fact... Your email subject line must read gooseberry application followed by your full name or it may be deleted, when responding. Please also include three brief story ideas that meet the criteria outlined above so we can get a feeling of your understanding of the audience and the foregoing story guidelines. Your resume might be a single attachment to your email.

Please send your resume, a letter of interest, and clips to published samples of work that is of relevance to the individual biz space.

Blog posts are growing up they're increasingly not the ugly stepsister of articles.

Good news is, the convergence of blog posts and articles should offer writers better pay opportunities. They ought to pay more like the articles they often are. Yes, occasionally a real company wanders on there and posts, not this kind of a poor reputation with freelancers for offering up mostly junk. I know an awful lot of writers for whom $ 2K a month for writing one post a day would've been heaven, Amel! By the way, a long 'writeup' that does not contain any interview and is written about the achievements of some great personalities hereafter in that case, will this work be called an article or blog? Is interview necessary for an article? Oftentimes I know blog is a first person writeup but the write up I am talking about is in third person but is simply based upon biography so, how must I term it?

[goodra-king]

6 Email Marketing Myths You Can Ignore

6 Email Marketing Myths You Can Ignore written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing

Email marketing has been around for a long time, and consequently, people have developed a lot of opinions about what works and what doesn’t. However, as the digital marketing landscape has changed, some things about email marketing that used to be true are no longer so. And there are some things that have always been myths, but still persist today.

Here, let’s debunk the six biggest email marketing myths out there.

1. Email Marketing is Dead

As more digital channels have emerged through which you can reach clients, there have been whispers going around that email marketing is dead.

In reality, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Marketers still see a great deal of value in email marketing, and are still investing heavily in this tactic. According to surveys from HubSpot, 93% of B2B marketers use email to distribute content. On the B2C side of things, 59% of consumers report that information in an email has influenced their purchasing decisions. And everyone is on email. Ninety-nine percent of consumers check their email every single day (and most report doing so multiple times a day).

2. Frequent Emails Feel Spammy

Some marketers are hesitant to send regular emails at the risk of annoying their mailing list. And it’s true, for most consumers, their inboxes are crowded places. A survey from Marketing Charts found that the average person receives 416 marketing emails each month.

But just because others are sending emails doesn’t mean you shouldn’t send any (or only send one once in a blue moon). The key to avoiding that spammy feel is ensuring that your content is always valuable. If you send emails that add value, provide information, and are actually helpful to your audience, you’re a lot more likely to see strong open rates and a reduction unsubscribes.

If you’re looking for tips on creating engaging content, check out this post.

3. Unsubscribes Are a Bad Thing

No one enjoys rejection, and an unsubscribe can certainly sting. But the reality is that unsubscribes are not necessarily a bad thing. A clean email list is key to staying on ISPs’ good sides, and that’s what will keep your emails from being barred from inboxes.

You can do things on your end to clean your list—like scanning for typos and giving people an option to re-opt-in if they’ve been unresponsive to your recent email marketing efforts—but unsubscribes are a way for you to get your customers to do some of the heavy lifting for you. An unsubscribe is someone saying they’re no longer interested in your content, and that could be for any number of reasons.

If you see a large number of unsubscribes all at the same time, that might be indicative of a problem with your content, but if you see people leave your list from time to time, that’s simply making space for a higher open rate overall and a better relationship with ISPs.

4. There is a Magic Day and Time to Send Emails

Some marketers swear by sending emails at a very specific time. If it’s not Tuesday at 10am, they won’t send an email!

There has been a lot of research over the years, with marketers trying to find that magic time where open rates will be high and conversions will abound. But these studies have been less than definitive, and so there is no one-size-fits-all approach to timing emails.

It’s certainly true that some audiences will engage with emails at a higher rate at certain times of day, but that will vary from business to business, so trying to stick with some antiquated idea about the one day and time you can send an email won’t serve you.

Instead, do some experimenting, send emails at several days and times throughout the week and see which ones get the highest engagement. Then aim for that time again, and see if you can repeat your results. Be willing to mix things up, and don’t be afraid to send emails out more than once a week (see point 2 above).

5. Long Subject Lines Spell Trouble

For a long time, marketers were told to shy away from subject lines that were too long to be fully displayed in someone’s inbox. That sounds on the surface like a sensible piece of advice, but it turns out that a recent study from Marketing Sherpa busted this long-held belief.

While email subject lines that fall into that “sweet spot” of 41-50 characters performed well, it’s actually longer subject lines with 61-70 characters that did the best. So don’t stress about fitting all of your email subject lines into those narrow parameters. Instead, work to create a subject that is attention-grabbing and really tells readers what they can expect to find inside the email.

6. Avoid Repeat Messages

Super Office reports that the average open rate for emails in 2018 was just shy of 25%. That means that three out of four people on your list are not seeing any given email. Some people won’t read a given email because the subject line doesn’t interest them, but others will miss it for completely innocuous reasons. They may have been busy that day or accidentally deleted the message.

Whatever the case may be, for your most important content, it’s okay to send the same email copy twice in order to get the highest engagement. This isn’t a tactic you should take with every email message, but it can actually be valuable when used sparingly.

There are a few caveats here. First, don’t send the same email on the same day. Instead, wait several days before you resend it. You should also switch up the subject line, so that those who wrote the email off the first time because of its subject line might open it this time, and so that those who opened it the first time around aren’t put off by getting the exact same email twice.

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#Marketing Plan

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The Keys To Success - LTO 6 TapeScreening, Time Management, Data Backup

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5" note pad Hard Drive Destroyer s are the most popular since they are small, utilize little power, and are rugged. 2.5" disk drive destroyers are developed to take the daily vibrations and shakes it would experience from remaining in a laptop computer, so it would make good sense to use in a carputer where you'll be running over holes, hopping curbs, and so on. I have actually been utilizing an old 2.5" 80GB IDE for a minimum of 3 years now. I have actually dropped the hard disk destroyer several times and have it installed quite badly, but it's still running strong! 3.5" hard disk drive destroyers need much more power, and power is precious when we're speaking about small, 90-120 watt power products.

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Unstable - LTO 6 TapeIn two days of screening, I lost three e-mails, which is inappropriate. I have no problems with a program crashing (every as soon as in a while), however that typically and with something as important as email, I was unable to justify keeping Columba on my Degaussed Hard Drive.

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Back up your important information. Given that computer system is an electronic device, it can malfunction anytime. Your crucial information may likewise be lost due to infection problem. So, it is better to back up your information in routine basis. You can use CD, DVD or an external Hard Drive Crusher in this regard. In the market, you will get external hard disk drive crusher of numerous sizes and rates. These are likewise very easy to set up. Just you need to connect the create to your computer system and then choose the option to back up your computer.

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Say you're fortunate enough to discover a "personnel bartender" post for a fashionable hot spot: open interview over two days during a specific time duration. Terrific! However bear in mind you're not the only one seeing this post. I really went to one of these and found a hundred (no, that's not a typo) bartenders currently there waiting. If you're looking for a task on Craig's List then you already understand it is difficult out there. So get there early, bring a pen, a bottle of water and be prepared to wait. There are a lot more jobless certified bartenders than you may believe.

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I had a great if busy week. The Client API does more, several bugs are fixed, some new features and options are in, and stability and memory use should be a bit better.

client api

This is still somewhat advanced, but users who are interested may want to start looking in.

The first version of the Client API last week went ok! There were a couple of bugs, but thanks to feedback from some advanced users, I've improved reliability and carved out a better spec. This week brings JSON everywhere, fixes the add_file crash, and adds two neat calls:

/add_urls/get_url_files now looks up which files are attached to a URL

/add_files/add_file lets you import a file, either from a path or raw bytes

Please check the updated help here for more details:

https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/help/client_api.html

the rest

I fixed the stupid 'page of pages' closing bug. I apologise if you were hit by this. I got a little blackpilled about all these typo errors not being caught, so I wrote a new testing suite to better test core ui functionality. I will expand this over the coming weeks and hope to completely eliminate the most blockheaded problems.

I have added nijie.info to the downloader defaults. It needs a login to access. I also updated the default danbooru parsers to get 'rating:' tags. I'd like to fold in some more downloaders to the client defaults in the near future. sfw FurAffinity should be doable next week. If you have a simple working downloader that you think would be worth rolling in for all new users, please suggest/submit it.

I added a semi-hacky checkbox to options->files and trash that pauses all new file/thumbnail requests for 15 seconds after your computer wakes from sleep. If you store your client's files over a NAS or other network solution (that may take a couple of seconds to reconnect after wake), give it a go and let me know if you like it.

I did a bunch of little work on stability and memory management and failure recovery this week. If you have had trouble with the menubar or a bloaty client or invalid website encodings or subs that fail to load, see if any of it is better here. OS X users with retina (i.e. high-dpi) screens may also see less blurry ui--I'd particularly like feedback in this case, good or bad.

full list

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fixed up some api permissions object stuff so that /verify_access_key response can always serialise correctly

fixed the 'add_url' api call's instability

the API will now always return JSON on 200. anything else should be presumed to be raw text

'/api_version' now returns JSON, and after talking with users, it will now start incrementing with every api change. it remains 1 just for this week

'/request_access_permissions' now returns JSON

'/add_url' now results JSON on success with more info, 403 on failure

'/get_url_info' now returns the 'normalised_url' in the response JSON

added '/get_url_files', which returns 'url_file_statuses', listing known hashes and file import status for that url

added '/add_files/add_file', which can import a file from a path or bytes

added '/add_tags/get_tag_services', which will return info on the client's tag services

updated client api help to reflect the above changes and fleshed out the intro a bit

fixed the client api permissions enum values in the help, which I somehow transcribed wrong first time

updated the client api tests to check the above

refactored client api tests to be neater and in their own file

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the rest:

fixed the page of pages close bug

added a downloader for nijie.info to the client defaults (it needs a login)

updated danbooru file page parsers to get 'rating' tag

added gelbooru 0.1.11 parser for future application

fixed an issue that was stopping advanced content updates from fully copying all the desired mappings in the transaction

added a semi-hacky checkbox to 'options->files and trash' that will delay all new file/thumb requests for 15s after the computer resumes from sleep (useful if your files are on a NAS that takes a few seconds to reconnect on wake)

wrote some more graceful fallback decoding handling code that attempts original assumed encoding and 'utf-8' if different and returns the one with the fewest ' ' replacement characters

the network engine and the ffmpeg info parsing now use this new 'safe' decoding, so even if a site has borked bytes or the video file has unexpected Shift-JIS title metadata, it'll still go through, albeit with some question marks

moved some more old daemons to the new job scheduler, deleted some old daemon code

improved some daemon job wake and shutdown code

wrote a proper upnp manager object and improved all-around reliability of the auto upnp-service-mapping code

simplified the upnp check code so it now only ever checks/does anything if the respective services actually want upnp mappings. surplus mappings are now wiped immediately on service update

fixed upnp mapping fetching to cope with ipv6 results

improved some memory clearing code to deal with some semi-stubborn objects

improved some 'iterate through this giant list of single numbers from the db without using a lot of memory' code and applied it to the autocomplete cache regeneration routine

improved menubar stability, both in finding menus and swapping them out

if a serialised json object fails to load from the db, this is now caught, the bad object deleted and written to a new file in the db dir, and all logging info captured along with an explanatory popup thrown on screen. so, if a subscription fails to load, it will now be extracted so that a subsequent subscription edit/run will work with the remaining good objects. in the case of backed-up objects (gui sessions atm), reattempting the load should restore the next most recent backup

fixed an issue with login script validation when the given credentials have surplus ( key, value ) pairs to the script's credential definitions

fixed two login invalid cookie error handling bugs

maybe made some dupe filter searching more stable

fixed a py2 datatype issue that made the client unbootable when updating the client from <296

the client now pauses to nag and moan about backups if you try to update more than 15 versions in one go

slightly sped up discord bugfix file drag and drops and expanded file limit up to 25 files/200MB

added experimental secret discord bugfix dnd mode checkbox

improved how html parsing deals with some unexpected bad tag data

turned on primitive high-dpi support for OS X. let me know if it fixes any blurry issues on retina displays

wrote a new 'ui test' under the debug->gui menu to help catch common-action bugs that slipped through weekly work

improved how the test code does some wx/ui stuff, but also broke some more and ran out of time to clean it up--this is an ongoing project

improved how some text import line splitting works

misc fixes

next week

I pushed it too hard this week, and while I am overall happy with the work, I am going to return to normal schedule so I don't burn myself out. I'd like to keep pushing on the Client API, probably getting add_tags done, and otherwise just flesh out the new test code and do some small QoL stuff.

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Credit score scale: How to get an incredible credit rating - I Will Teach You To Be Rich

Your credit ranking (or credit report) gives lenders an idea of how dangerous you are to lend to.

If your credit score is high, expect great interest rates on mortgage, near-universal approval for charge card, and an incredible dating life ( it's true: a higher dating score predicts a much better dating life)

. If it's low ... well, do not stress. Because we're going to reveal you a system to change

that. What's the credit rating scale?

The credit rating scale is a procedure that helps lenders identify whether or not they ought to provide you something.

Your credit rating affects interest rates, charge card approvals, and even things like whether or not you'll get approved to lease homes.

While there are different sort of credit rating scales for individuals, the most frequently utilized one is the FICO score. FICO represents Fair Isaac Corporation. They're an information company that established the credit history system back in the late-eighties.

Their ratings are on a variety in between 300 and 850 and are identified by information found on an individual's credit report. And there are THREE significant credit bureaus that supply these reports:

This implies you can have three different credit history at any time. Granted, the ratings won't normally differ that much from bureau to bureau.

The following pieces of info determine your actual score (thanks to Wells Fargo): Keep in mind: The greater your score, the much better it is for you.

Why does it matter? Here's a credit report chart with varieties courtesy of Experian-- and what they imply for you:

Great!This is a wonderful place to be for your credit report. You need to have no problem securing a home mortgage at low interest.

740-- 799

Excellent. Not ideal but certainly okay either. Your interest rates will still be solid and you'll still be able to protect things like charge card, loans, and house leasings.

670-- 739

Okay. Not dreadful, you should still attempt to do what you can to improve your rating.

580-- 669

Bad. This is when you must start fretting considering that now you're thought about a "subprime debtor." You might be rejected a house mortgage outright and rates of interest will be high.

300-- 579

OMG. Desert all hope ye who get in here. You'll likely be rejected for any loans and will not be able to open new charge card.

If you're planning on taking out a loan or achieving credit of ANY kind, you're going to desire to make sure your credit rating is in check. If you don't, you might discover yourself saddled with high rates of interest and being denied basic loans.

How do I inspect my credit ranking?

To inspect your credit rating, you'll require to travel countless miles through the 9 levels of hell, Mordor, Siberia in the winter, AND make it past the topiary maze from "The Shining"prior to fixing a series of riddles from a sphinx who will tell you your credit rating in a dead language.

Oh wait, I'm sorry. That's a typo. I suggested inspecting your credit report is exceptionally easy. In reality, there are a LOTS OF websites out there that'll give you your credit history free of charge.

Two good ones we recommend: Credit Karmaand Mint. Head to these sites and follow their directions. Be prepared to get in basic information about yourself (name, DOB, social security #, etc.).

If you discover that your credit history is great, congrats! Do all you can to maintain that rating (we get to that listed below).

If your credit report is low though, have no fear. Here's a system that'll assist you improve your credit rating.

How to improve your credit history

Improving your credit report is all about 80/20-- do a small amount of work now and it'll settle in spades later on.

And you do not need to do anything insane either. Here are five keys that'll help you move the needle on your credit rating:

1. Delete your financial obligation

Financial obligation is one of the BIGGEST barriers preventing people from living a Rich Life. That's why if you wish to have the ability to begin focusing more of your energy on making more cash and investing, you require to erase your financial obligation.

You can do this utilizing Ramit's five-step system on leaving financial obligation quick. Though there are

a great deal of nuances to this, here's three fast tips from the system: For the full system, examine out our article on the

five actions to get out of financial obligation. If you desire much more insights on getting out of debt,

examine out Ramit's old video on negotiating your debt. 2. Keep your cards A lot of individuals mistakenly think that they require to get rid of their credit cards to enhance their rating. After all, charge card are the factor people get bad credit report. It would stand to factor that closing the accounts enhance it ... right?

Incorrect. Extremely, extremely incorrect.

Why? Due to the fact that 15% of your credit rating is determined by your credit history. So if you close accounts, you close that history.

This also adversely affects your "credit usage rate" (more on that later).

Of course, there are going to be times when you simply require to close a charge card (travel hacking, rate of interest expensive, and so on). That's fine so as long as you likewise ensure you're not using to a significant loan within six months of closing it.

You want as much credit as possible when you use for loans.

In basic though, keep your cards open and put a recurring charge on them. This reveals that your cards are active and keeps your credit history healthy.

3. Negotiate your limit

Your credit utilization rate impacts 30% of your credit score because it affects the quantity you owe.

And the formula for it is simple:

Unlike your credit report, the lower THIS number is, the much better.

Let's look at an example: If you bring $1,000 debt across 2 charge card with $2,500 credit limits each, your credit usage rate is 20% ($1,000 financial obligation/ $5,000 total credit available).

If you close among the cards, all of a sudden your credit usage rate jumps to 40% ($1,000/ $2,500). However if you paid off $500 in debt, your utilization rate would be 20% ($500/ $2,500) and your rating would not alter.

When your credit utilization rate is low, it shows loan providers that you do not generally spend all the cash you have available in your credit-- which implies you likely won't default and they will not lose money.

You can improve your credit usage in 2 methods:

We have actually already struck the first part-- so let's have a look at a script to assist you negotiate your credit limitation with your card company:

YOU: Hi, I want to request a credit boost. I currently have $5,000 offered and I 'd like $10,000.

CC REP: Uh ... why?

YOU: I've been paying my bill completely for the last 18 months and I have some approaching purchases. I 'd like a credit line of $10,000. Can you approve my demand?

CC REPRESENTATIVE: Okay. I've put in an ask for an increase. It needs to be triggered in about seven days. Anything else I can do for you?

Ramit recommends asking for a credit limitation increase every 6 to 12 months. Just do this if/when you run out financial obligation though.

4. Automate your payments

Let's talk about my FAVORITE topic on the planet: Automating your individual financing.

This is IWT's tested system that acts of awesome things:

The very best part? You do all of this passively. That indicates there's no hassle of moving your loan around, and no pain from seeing your loan part from you.

And because 35% of your credit history is identified by your payment history, it is essential to automate your system so you pay your costs on time and completely monthly.

To find out more on how to automate your finances, check out Ramit's 12-minute video where he goes through the specific process with you.

You must ideally be paying off your entire credit card balance every month, but if you can't, you can still improve your rating by paying a minimum of the minimums, on time, monthly.

Enhance your credit rating = Big Win

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