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Payment Processing "On Location" Just Got a Whole Lot Easier (App How-To and Review)

Stephanie LH Calahan

  But, I don't care to carry around additional hardware if I. don't need it.    But, I don't care to carry around additional hardware if I. don't need it.    It does take a bit of practice learning how to hold your device; but once you've got it, it works every time.

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Creative Mind Cleaning | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

You don’t want ideas to get lost in your attic. In one of the first Holmes stories ever written, Holmes described how he came to have such a clever brain: I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. Stephen King doesn’t write much crap anymore.

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The benefits of reading aloud | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Now, when I say ‘don’t write’, I don’t mean you should take a break or get away from the keyboard for a day. When I say ‘don’t write’, I mean you should stop writing and start listening to what you’ve written. Don’t roll your eyes that way. Or are you?

2010 40
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How to Improve Your Writing | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

It shouldn’t have surprise me at all, really – I’ve been writing six to ten blog posts a week, every week, for at least eighteen months. The problem was that I couldn’t see how I’d improved. The problem was that I couldn’t see how I’d improved. We stare at blank screens. We chew pencils.

2010 40
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Realistic Freelancing |

Men With Pens

I am not a freelancer as such but I do work from home and I’ve training my boss and colleagues to stop arranging meetings after 4pm (still working on that one), I’ve been forcing myself to step away from the keyboard and to stop checking work emails after hours. You have plenty of time left for that client. And you know what?

2009 40
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What To Do When You've Been Insulted | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

No delicate tippy-tapping on the keyboard for me. They often don’t realize that the same words said aloud in a meeting room would be incredibly insulting in text. There were a few comments in the email that were very polite little jabs at the quality of my work, or so they seemed to me. I was riled up. You don’t need that.

2010 40
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Writer's Block - and One Trick to Beat It |

Men With Pens

It wasn’t very good. I tried writing the mid-sections first, thinking I’d work on the intro after, but that didn’t help. I couldn’t write easily, and it felt like a dirty little secret. That didn’t help. “No wonder I can’t write! I couldn’t write. I could write. Real hard.

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