by Anne Skyvington | Jul 10, 2022 | Psychology, Writing Topics
Ways of Facing Fear Fear, like pain, is often a good thing. It’s normal to be afraid of dangerous creatures, such as funnel web spiders. It’s only when fear is out of proportion, and gets in the way of life and living, that it becomes a negative emotion....
by Anne Skyvington | Apr 27, 2022 | Writing Spirit, Writing Topics
The reason people choose atheism rather than belief or agnosticism, may simply be that professed atheists have not experienced, at least in this lifetime, the “numen” (adj. “numinous”). See meaning below. Numinous ( /ˈnjuːmɪnəs/) is a concept derived from the Latin...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 19, 2022 | Writing Spirit, Writing Topics
Appropriating the American way while writing for Medium 1. Keep physically fit and eat well Fitness: There are so many ways one can manage to do this these days: go to the gym; find a lifestyle clinic; go bush walking; swim every day; jog; walk; go up and down stairs...
by Anne Skyvington | Apr 1, 2020 | Publishing, Writing Topics
NIELSEN BOOKSCAN In December 2000 the situation for publishers began to change a little with the establishment of Nielsen BookScan, a local affiliate of US polling company A.C. Nielsen. Nielsen tracks book sales by barcode from around eighty-five per cent of all...
by Anne Skyvington | Mar 23, 2020 | Publishing, Writing Topics
Someone said it takes a village to bring up a child; it’s the same for writing a novel. This was certainly true for me. Experts say you should write about what you know, so I wrote about my parents’ love story, set in country New South Wales, as Australia was exiting...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 13, 2020 | Ecology, Writing Spirit
The Myth Linked to the Earth Today We earthlings are being jolted by human damage to our natural home. Climate Change is causing huge shock waves to register throughout the globe. Fierce fires have broken out this summer here, and recently in California and even in...
