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Blog postThere’s an old saying that Content is King. But without Context, raw content can be misleading (fake news) and misunderstood (Google and other search engines). Context is Queen is the best way to understand the many ways that content can be most effectively created, published and marketed.
You may have the greatest content – a fact-filled article or a thrill-a-minute story – but without the necessary wrapper or cover, how is anyone to know. But beware click-bait. You can put a c -
Blog postMost cultures have concepts and aphorisms that encourage self worth. Most cultures don’t make these central to life and learning. For example:
Manipura (Solar Plexus Chakra) Self worth, self confidence and self esteeem. Integrity is more valuable than income. Honor is richer than fame. Self-worth is wealthier than net worth. Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situations that threaten your peace of mind, self-respect, values, morals and self worth. But self worth has of -
Blog postYou’ve probably heard of ‘painting by numbers’. There are also systems that claim to help you write by numbers and edit by numbers. They claim their algorithms will detect necessary editing revisions.
I don’t agree. No matter how many books these systems claim their algorithms are based on, go along to any book club. Six people, ten people, 18 people, all in a room and having read the same book. There will be a great divergence of opinions. And not one of them is wrong – or even right -
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Blog postMy True Names is the third autobiographical novel in the Anchors in An Open Sea trilogy. COMING SOON Alice and Cornelius begin the adventure of a lifetime, sailing from Fiji through Vanuatu and the Solomon archipelago on to the islands of Papua New Guinea. The pristine waters abound with tropical fish and coral, the volcanic islands are alive with gardens and lush jungle.
The older, wiser Alice is now teaching, incorporating neurophysiological models of consciousness. -
Blog postFiery Scribes enjoy being writers and also thrive on solid editing work. Alongside writing our own novels, we provide the following services.
Developmental Editing (also known as Substantive, Structural or Comprehensive Editing)
Developmental Editing is concerned with both the art and craft of storytelling. It is a strategic analysis – the ‘what’ of the book.
Focus is on plot development, character motivation, location authenticity, overall -
Blog postGreat news! After enormous wrestling with Amazon and CreateSpace and Kindle and IngramSpark – yes, they’re all involved in some way or another – we finally have an Amazon Author Page for Dyana which, finally, collects her two books properly!
Go here to see Dyana’s page: amazon.com/author/dyanawells
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Blog postThe second book in the trilogy Anchors in an Open Sea, by Dyana Wells, is Buddha and a Boat. Once again the backdrop is the Pacific ocean, with hiking and cycling adventures alongside romance and family difficulties. Vanuatu and New Caledonia are the new playgrounds.
Alice’s older children are trying to sort out their lives, grappling with mid-life issues and the meaning of life. Meanwhile Alice and her new man are tossed about in a relationship as stormy as an oce -
Blog postThe Yoga of Sailing, the first book in the trilogy Anchors in an Open Sea, has a backdrop of sailing across the Pacific ocean, in this case from New Zealand to Fiji.
The trilogy is a spiritual autobiography, presented in novel form, and follows a family’s love of sailing as it intersects with life’s many challenges.
This is also a story of three generations of one family, spanning thirty years, and focussed particularly on Alice, her father Roger, and Alice’s three children. A -
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Blog postGaliano Island is a wild slip of land grown up between mainland Canada and Vancouver Island. Punyashri and I arrived by ferry, an hour’s journey, ploughing through dark space and water, getting closer, excitement rising; we were almost there. Our New Zealand lives were now thirty hours behind. Libby, a fellow student, met us at the wharf and I finally breathed out, long and deep. She loaded our heavy luggage into her four-wheel drive and we drove the backbone of the island, slowing only to le
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Blog postDigging into the mystery when life gets sticky. Alice, Roger and Cornelius set sail from Fiji for Vanuatu and New Caledonia and the adventure and excitement continues. They share watches through the day and night, cope with seasickness, struggle with headwinds, and Cornelius is almost immobilised with a unexplained pain in his leg.
Alice explores teachings from earlier retreats when she goes cycling solo around Vanuatu, and reflects on her early life as she hitches alone -
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