Neha's Notebook

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing: Proven Professional Techniques for Writing With Style and Power by Gary Provost As the name suggests, this book by Mr. Gary Provost outlines 100 ways to improve writing. These 100 ways are divided into crisp eleven chapters. The book is a handy treasury of ideas, interesting examples and functional pointers that may turn out to be super-useful for anyone seeking refinement of their writing, and accelerate the momentum of their writing process. In this review, I share 46 pointers that I curated upon reading the book. For easy rememberance, I’ve divided the video into 3 parts – Quick Tips & Tricks, Lessons in the Craft of Writing & Common Errors and Mistakes To Avoid in Writing. Let’s breeze through these! QUICK TIPS & TRICKS #1 Get some reference books • Get some Reference Books such as a dictionary, encyclopedia and thesaurus. #2 Improve Your Spellings #3 Expand Your Vocabulary #4 Read • Read, and listen to what you re

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall Most of us humans like stories. In fact, we love stories. But why and how do we seem to love them? For science, that may still be a puzzle. Nevertheless, our understanding of the human mind leads the way to the insight which streams in the backdrop while we’re immersed in a story and our mind is processing, forming connections, feeling emotions, rewiring neural pathways and churning information presented to us through the story. The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall takes us through an immersive wordscape that is peppered with oodles of metaphors, pointers, insights, and lessons, pertaining mostly, to the topic of storytelling. The book features an interesting embroidery woven together with the intricate threads of researches related to evolutionary psychology, neuroscience and various other sciences. Encapsulating several stories-within-stories and pop-modern terminology, the book

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon In three words, SHOW YOUR WORK is a book that reveals to you, exciting ways to “show your work” and to put it out there into the world. Embellished with photographs and snippets of blackout poetry, the square paperback is a crisp guide offering tips and tricks that are not only interesting but quite practical & relevant to follow through. In this review, I am sharing nineteen clear-cut and key pointers from the book. Read on! #1 In order to be found, you have to be findable In simple words, be online. If you have a skill that you can share or teach, or if you have a work that you do, then put this skill or bits of your work out there for people to see. #2 Send out a Daily Dispatch Consistently post bits & pieces of your work. Share something small every day. Take it one day at a time, and it gradually compounds over months and years. Find the time to do this, each day, be