by Michael La Ronn | Apr 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Faceplanted today. Not literally but figuratively. Woke up with my back all twisted, so I spent the day looking like a turtle and walking like Frankenstein. Strike 1. Also had a little snafu with my taxes that fortunately I rectified but would have been a really big...
by Michael La Ronn | Apr 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
I spoke at ProWritingAid’s Crime Writer’s Week. The topic was Writing in Hard Times, which was based on my course. I offered some strategies for people to think about their writing as a business and most importantly, how to protect it. Glad to get that done, and a few...
by Michael La Ronn | Apr 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
I did a video on that conference call issue I talked about last night. If you work from home or do a lot of conference calls but struggle with making eye contact with people, I found a hack that works wonderfully. I used it today and it made a world of difference....
by Michael La Ronn | Apr 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Started working on the material for my presentation at Crime Writer’s Week at ProWritingAid. Material is prepared, so I just need to design the small slide deck tomorrow. I also finalized my evil plan to eliminate the problem of “no eye contact” in conference calls. I...
by Michael La Ronn | Apr 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
I made a lot of progress today: Started planning my presentation for ProWritingAid’s Crime Writers Week on Thursday Finally figured out a way to make eye contact with an interviewer while on a conference call. It was really bothering me that I couldn’t look people in...
by Michael La Ronn | Apr 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
I did a YouTube thumbnail photoshoot so I can start refreshing my thumbnail game. I took around 75 poses but ended up keeping about 50, which is not bad. My thumbnails should look look much better. I spent today doing “happy” poses—so I got 50 happy face, smiling...
by Michael La Ronn | Apr 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
I got my studio all rearranged today and back up to the configuration before I had to teardown. That took a surprisingly long time because I had to install all the components on my standing desk again. It took forever but I’m back now. I uploaded a test YouTube short...
by Michael La Ronn | Apr 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
My ceiling is in. It’s just about done and it looks great. We ran into a little snag with the electrical, so I have an electrician coming out Monday to fix that before the final three panels with lights go in. Until then, I have to work from my dining room table,...
by Michael La Ronn | Apr 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
I finalized another Scrivener 3 video, which is ready to shoot. I also started working on the next one as well as an experimental YouTube short that might fall very flat, but I’m going to try it and see what happens. I had to tear down everything in my studio because...
by Michael La Ronn | Apr 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Landed another speaking engagement today. That’s 3 invites in the last 24 hours alone…pretty cool! Also shot the first Scrivener 3 Windows video. My hope is to release it as soon as my editor is done with it, so probably Saturday. I will probably release the...
