You know what’s annoying? When you keep reading books that seem to keep calling you out specifically in weird ways. And let me tell you, it’s worse when that book is a fiction book that is about robots and tea and somehow it still manages to get in your head… Read More »A Psalm for the Wild Built review
After a series of books that I’ve read recently that feel very much like they are calling me out specifically, I have decided to take the hint and start to get Scrap Paper properly into alignment with how a business should be run. Or, at least, to run it more… Read More »Getting the business together
Today in books that I was recommended by mentors that seem like they are chosen very specifically to call me out, another career book of trying to try and help me figure out how to specialize in my field and instead has seemed to push me over the edge toward… Read More »Body of Work review
If you’ve ever been stuck while you were writing, there’s a common practice for computer programmers that might help you out! As a person who used to make websites (And still kind of do) I can say that I have tried this method both to help me fix code and… Read More »The rubber duck trick for writer’s block
Today in books that mentorship has directed me to, the updated version of a book I read back in 2020 when I lost my job! It’s 2 years later and I’m in a very unstable and uncertain industry, and currently undergoing through a process of trying to figure out how… Read More »What Colour is your Parachute 2023 review
February is just about gone and here’s what’s happened so far! Scrap Paper Trinkets I’m going through a bit of a rebrand! I’m splitting the handmade stuff off into a seperate account, since it seems that the people who like the jewelry and handmade stuff are not the people who… Read More »February releases roundup and updates
I have been staring at this book at every Pulp Lit event for ages and I have finally gotten around to reading it! It looked like it was going to be so much fun and there’s a sequel now, so I figured it was time to finally get my hands… Read More »Stella Ryman and the Fairmont Manor Mysteries review
I have been trying to read more widely over the last couple years in an attempt to better myself, which has mostly meant that I’m reading a lot of books available at my library. Which, for some reason, has been a lot of self improvement books. Well. I wanted to… Read More »How to get the most out of self improvement books
I should not read a second book by a nonfiction author, I’m realizing. First was Nir Eyer, and now Cal Newport. I end up just looking at these books through the context of their last one. Where Deep Work was about how you should be spending your time on good,… Read More »Digital Minimalism review
It’s Valentines season and I am not a romance person whatsoever. Still, I thought I should do something in the spirit of the season and to capitalize on the keywords, so I offer you this. I have been saying for years to anyone who asks that if you want to… Read More »Things I have learned from the romance author community