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Profitable Ideas: Raising Kids in Our Digital Age, The Date-Night Money Talk, and More
Weekly list of curated personal finance articles from around the web.
How (not) to ruin the next generation (World). Kids and smartphones — what’s a parent to do?
The date-night talk every couple needs: passwords, online accounts, and more (Wall Street Journal). Not the most romantic topic, but so necessary.
Fear-based frugality can harm your financial well-being (Advisor Perspectives). Frugality can
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“Another unnecessary usage is what’s called an expletive construction—look for “there is,” “there are,” “there were”—which can be fixed simply by finding the stronger subject within the existing sentence and giving it a better verb to work with: “There were several new clues in the starlet’s hotel room” could be written as “The starlet’s hotel room offered up several new clues.”
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
“If the purpose of a conversation is merely to deliver information, try condensing it as much as possible by converting it into summarized dialogue.”
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
“I’m a writer because I was a reader who wanted there to be more books like the books I loved.”
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
