Nicholas Bate

Thursday Melange 34

1. The Writing Primer.
2. Meet Molly is now out. A love story. A parable. A good read. ”This book is a must read. To be savoured.”
3. How to Start your Very Own Business.
4. 22 Essentials.
5. How to Create your Covid-19 Home Office.
6. plus The Start Up Myths
7. Stay STRONG
8. Crazy Bold Experiments
9. Just say NO to PPT
10. Post Covid Business Essentials.
11. The Marketing Primer.
12. Redundancy
13. Covid-19, 101
14. Hunter-Gatherer 21C
15. Tackling Stress.
16. Manage that career
17. Be Bold 101
18. You still haven’t read Being The Best?! 
19. Things They Don’t Teach at Business School
20. the secrets of success
21. Life Tips 101
22. Zen & Art of Cubicle Freedom
23. Be Bold 101
24. Carnage At Kodak
25. The Very Best Drugs You Need
26. Billions of Light Years Away In Another Galaxy
27. 22 Routes To Your Non Fiction Book
28. Lists For The Life You Love
29. Her Notes To Herself
30. How To Lessen E-Mail Pain
31. Professionalism 101
32. 21 Ways to Improve your Zoom Conference Call.
33. Productivity Primer
34. 101, redux.

The Blank Sheet of Paper, 7

1. Is potential, bags of.
2. Is the infinitely expanding universe laid out and scaled for your convenience for you to explore.
3. Is where you solve problems, craft sentences which become books, articulate your greatest synaptic bursts. And say I love you.
4. Is your greatest, most flexible, portable, wi-fi free (which is of course not free wi-fi) computer.
5. Comes small, big, sticky, coloured and bound.
6. Lasts a life-time or lights a camp-fire.
7. Allows you to start a fresh adventure anytime, anyplace.

Always Helpful, 58

Taking time to smell the roses.

What Little (and actually big, too) Kids Need, 27

1. Love
2. Love
3. Unconditional Love
4. Cardboard boxes
5. Nut Butter Sandwiches
6. Love
7. More love
8. Lots of love
9. Bits of Dirt
10. Beaches, Forests and Sticks
11. Positive Reinforcement
12. Love
13. Love
14. More Love
15. Consistency
16. Conversation
17. Love
18. Interest
19. Books read to them
20. Enthusiasm for Life, pragmatism and plenty of paper to draw on. 
21. Love
22. Extra cardboard boxes
23. Sense of humour, a knowledge of paper aeroplanes and bicycle essentials.
24. When with them, 100% full-on presence
25. Love
26. More Love
27. Occasional Ice-cream.

(Most of the list applies to big kids, too)

Stop Press

Meet Molly, free promo, Amazon UK, final 24h.

Always Helpful, 57

There are many, many routes to your goal despite what teachers, advisers and specialists might have suggested. 

Choose another route.

Always Helpful, 56

The map is not the territory; the menu is not the meal; the book is not the story.

Stop Press

Meet Molly, free promo, Amazon UK.

Something for The Weekend. Meet Molly.

A Tale of Love, Intrigue and Downright Dastardliness

A love story, a parable, an adventure. A good read.

“Absolutely loved this book, a great story and apt for today and an inspiration.”

”Great characters. A page turner”

”I was quickly drawn into Molly's story and found myself caring what happened to her.”

“I enjoyed this book so much ... such a great story taking place in current times and this is so accurately described that reader gets immersed totally.”

”This book is a must read. To be savoured

Writing More, Writing Better, 7

1. Write for quantity.
2. Then edit for quality.
3. Write to the stopwatch with zero distractions.
4. Accept no excuses: fingers to keyboard same time, same place; rain or shine; good mood or bad.
5. Do the day-job brilliantly so you become invaluable and you can negotiate more time for writing.
6. Write for love of word, sentence and story. Not for fame.
7. When not writing nor doing the day job to fund your writing, read the classics.