Ramble Writing of R.D. Hayes

You got to love migraines; they come when unexpected, especially while you are trying to be a writer. Nothing is worse than having a pounding headache, unable to see, inability to focus, and yet your mind keeps going back to your writing project. Writing with migraines is a bitch, plain and simple. So, how do you be a writer with migraines? Simple answer… you don’t. You wait until the pain goes away, and then you wait another few days to a week for your vision to come back. Oddly enough, your mind won’t stop wondering back to your book, blog post, freelancing project, or any writing. If you are anything like me and impatient, you can set up your voice recorder on your phone as soon as you feel a migraine is coming. If you don’t think you can work your phone during your migraine, try a simpler recording device. You can pick one of these up on  Amazon . I record what’s on my mind so I don’t miss what might be important to me being a  writer. *I may be compensated for purchases u...

Dialogue tags are words which refer dialogue to a specific character. “Said” and “asked” are two common examples of dialogue tags. “I won’t help her!” said Christina. Dialogue tags are an important aspect of writing. When scenes have several characters, they help determine which character is speaking. Novice writers tend to use dialogue tags with adverbs to make it more colorful. “I won’t help her!” screamed Christina furiously. “I won’t help her!” Christina shouted angrily. “I won’t help her!” shrieked Christina nervously. Dialogue tags like these are distracting and pull the reader away from the true dialogue. There are better ways to make your character come alive without using adverbs. The actions of the character and dialogue will be enough to bring your story to life. If possible, get rid of dialogue tags. Try using actions and descriptions to show who’s speaking and to increase intensity in your scene. Christina slammed the phone down. “I won’t help her if she refuses to help he...

Working for a self-published author, I realized that the hardest part with being self-published, was getting your name out there. The book industry has taken a nose dive since information can now be found on the web for free. There are all these claims out there on authors striking it big by self-publishing on Amazon. It took me a while to realize what they were doing, but I get paid to do research like this and to advertise for people. I notice that the top authors on Amazon were paying for reviews, they would even give free books so that it wold be a verified review. I don’t like paying for reviews, especially when I am given a budget to work on. If I nose dive beyond that budget, my boss isn’t happy at all. Well,  R.D. Hayes  and I sat up one night and bounced ideas off of our heads. We came up with a solution. What would happen if we moved all of our books to Kindle Unlimited and started reviewing other authors who are also on Kindle Unlimited? So, here is what we came up ...

I’ve heard a lot of things about Amazon Mechanical Turk being a scam so I decided to check it out myself. I wanted to provide an honest review of the program. What is Amazon Turk? Put simply, Amazon Turk is a largely growing market place for work which requires human intelligence. Some of the task on Amazon Turk are writing product descriptions, transcribing audio files and videos, doing research for companies, selecting objects from pictures or videos, or searching data details. The entire site is based solely on marketers needing research they believe only a human can do. When a company or developer needs tasks done, they can assess Amazon Turk’s market place and create a HIT (Human Intelligence Tasks). These HITs pay mostly in pennies but can add up over time, and take hardly any time to complete. Is Amazon Turk a Scam? This can only be answered in two parts; the first part being Amazon Turk, and the second being the company or developer. Let’s take a look ...

Stop deleting those annoying emails and find out where the Kool-Aid is at. We all get them, and I hate them but, I did find a way to be paid for them. It’s called Paribus . It takes 15 seconds to sign up and worth every second. Paribus scans your emails for receipts to over 16 places such as Target, Amazon, and even Walmart. It looks for these receipts and tracks your purchases. If it finds any of those receipts and sees that there has been a price drop in the items that you have purchased, it will issue a refund according to those price drops. Paribus is where the Kool-Aid is and helps you find money where you didn’t know it was. Most retailers will offer a price difference if they have a price drop within so many days or weeks. There is nothing that you need to do since Paribus contacts those retailers for you.   Paribus charges a fee of 25% for helping to find those price drops. They do require you to add a credit card to your account. The credit card is so they c...

There have been many search engines who have come and gone. What caused them to crash and burn, lousy research, marketing, lack of sponsors, bad search engines, and flaws within their business plan.  Although there have been horrible search engines that swore they were going to be the next best thing but have any of them actually been able to pull off a money making search engine? The answer is yes. SwagBucks has been able to pull it off for years and they have successfully been making people happy. What is SwagBucks Swagbucks allows you to do simple things like answer surveys, shop for cash back, take polls, play games, and more. One feature that I love about Swagbucks is that I can do most of the things to earn points while watching TV. They also allow you to watch videos for points. I watch these videos while I’m roaming the internet on another web browser or while watching the television. How much can you earn by using Swagbucks This all really depends on you....