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- Increase Your Wealth and Happiness by Tapping Multiple Sources of Income - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithIncrease Your Wealth and Happiness by Tapping Multiple Sources of Income Generating multiple income streams through starting several small-scale businesses can help you keep your paychecks coming in this rapidly changing economy. As a writer some of my efforts are along the theme of ...
Views: 1091(1 vote) - Presentation Fridays - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithPresentation Fridays Days that involve travel to an event followed by a presentation are often the most stressful. It is helpful if you can arrive the evening before a presentation to give you, and your body, a chance to unwind prior to the event and eliminate the stress that some ...
Views: 928(1 vote) - A Spineless Cactus as A Source of Animal and Human Food - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2021 from Wm. Hovey SmithA Georgia Spineless Eatable Cactus as A Potential Source of Animal and Human Food In a YouTube video titled Reconciliation that was published in December, 2020, I described my finding and cooking an unusual species of spineless cactus, and said that I would attempt to propagate it. This ...
Views: 815 - Ads for Your Business or Services that Pay You Money - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithAds for Your Business or Services that Pay You Money You can have ads for your business or service that circulate worldwide, contain exactly the content that you want, stay up forever and pay you money. Money- generating advertising can have graphic, written, video and audio sections ...
Views: 970 - Alternate Reality: True, False or Somewhere in Between - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithAlternative Reality: True, False or Somewhere in Between? Alternative reality is an opinion that may or may not be supported by facts. A new phrase, alternative reality, entered the language with the Trump administration. It is used to describe statements often issued by the president that ...
Views: 893 - An Older Guy Balances his Physical, Intellectual and Social Life - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithAn Older Guy Balances His Physical, Intellectual and Social Life Writers don’t retire, they just die. I am one of that tribe. At 77 I find myself living alone in Central Georgia while facing the tasks of earning money, keeping up my house, fighting off the ills of an aging body, maintaining ...
Views: 946 - Ask for a Raise or Change Jobs? - by Submitted on Feb 17, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithAsk for a Raise or Change Jobs? Mid-level employees with two years or more of experience have never been in a better position to ask for a raise. The percentage of the U.S. labor force that is working is at the highest in decades, companies are looking for workers, there is a real ...
Views: 1098 - Avoid Financial Disaster when Selling Your Company - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithAvoid Financial Disaster when Selling Your Company Is selling your company going to reward you financially or leave you with a bankrupt company and debts that you cannot repay? Thus far your entrepreneurial enterprises have gone well. You started a company, made it a success, ran it for ...
Views: 1028 - Be Prepared for YES - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithBe Prepared for YES Proper prior preparation prevents piss poor performance. Rule of the seven “Ps,” U.S. Army, c. 1970 and possibly long before. At a hospitality suite during a two-day business seminar, those hosting the event are obviously promoting their products to the attendees. ...
Views: 864 - Business Ed at the Movies - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithWm. Hovey Smith is a registered Professional Geologist in Georgia. He is also a member of several writers’ organizations including the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA), the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) and the Georgia Outdoor Writers Association (GOWA). He is the ...
Views: 1033 - Canine Supervision: Natural Law According to the Dog - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithCanine Supervision: Natural Law According to Your Dog For the safety and wellbeing of the household no human should be allowed to work except under the close supervision of one or more canine supervisors. Because of the pitiful lack of basic sensory functions in humans such as the ...
Views: 967 - Chat GBT's Limitations on Screenplay Writing - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2023 from Wm. Hovey SmithThe current Writers and Actor's strikes in the movie industry is partly out of a concern of the present and coming ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to replace working writers. At present Google's Bard does not work well with Final Draft formatted screenplays, but Chat GBT does. If you ...
Views: 383 - Choose Your Partners as Carefully as You Would Choose Your Parents - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithChoose Your Partners as Carefully as You Would Choose Your Parents While sex appeal and lust-driven emotional responses likely played a large part in your being conceived, such responses need to be set aside when taking on a business partner. Maybe a sex partner can be a business partner, ...
Views: 1066 - Create Your Own Job with Your Present Company, Another Company or on Your Own - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithCreate Your Own Job with Your Present Company, Another Company or On Your Own With today’s rapid advances in IT technology, science, marketing and an ever-evolving art world it is possible to invent marketable jobs to capitalize on in a variety of ways. Company owners and managers ...
Views: 870 - Crystallography as a Way to Discover the “Unknown Unknowns” Regarding any Process or Question - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithCrystallography as a Way to Discover the “Unknown Unknowns” Regarding any Process or Question Crystallography with its rigid rules of form and symmetry provides a way to consider undiscovered facts and properties of complex problems. Crystallography is a course that is dreaded by Geology ...
Views: 1121 - Entrepreneurship As a Means of Combating the Epidemic of Loneliness - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithEntrepreneurship As a Means of Combating the Epidemic of Loneliness Useful work to fill the hours of our days is what your body would tell you it wants if it could speak. In 2018 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the CDC, declared that loneliness was the second most significant ...
Views: 899 - Evaluate Skills Before Starting Business - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2022 from Wm. Hovey SmithIf you don’t know where you are, you can’t know where to go. One of the most difficult tasks that beginning entrepreneurs have is to make a realistic evaluation of their own abilities. Lesson 4 of my LearnDesk series covers a series of points from personal appearance to communication ...
Views: 384 - From Creation to Realization: A Case Study - by Submitted on Mar 17, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithFrom Creation to Realization: A Case Study I consulted with a client who had a large number of business ideas, but did not have the equipment or skills to properly present them to potential backers. The client being discussed will remain anonymous, but his experiences are not unusual ...
Views: 1130 - From Dublin to Duluth with the Ford Ranger - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithFrom Dublin to Duluth with the Ford Ranger My 2011 Ford Ranger Sports Truck was purchased used and modified to be a one-guy outdoor truck. As a 76-year-old fellow who mostly hunts by himself, I do not need, or want, a huge pick-up truck. The Ranger that I purchased was equipped with a ...
Views: 2297 - Generating Scenes: The Backbone of a Screenplay - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2020 from Wm. Hovey SmithGenerating Scenes The Backbone of the Screenplay Making a movie begins with a concept, then this idea may be captured in a novel, and the third stage is often a screenplay. Sometimes the novel stage is omitted, and the writer/s go directly from concept to screenplay. If you are fortunate ...
Views: 825 - Getting to Know Artificial Intelligence (AI) - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2023 from Wm. Hovey SmithMany people are rightly concerned with the present and exponential impacts that AI is having on work and life. There is no field whether in competitiveness in retail trade, manufacturing, military activities, law enforcement, education, health care, or in the creative arts where the impacts of ...
Views: 359 - Hemingway Award Winning Screenplay Seeking Producers - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2023 from Wm. Hovey Smith“Blood Ties” by Wm. Hovey Smith was the Hemingway Screenplay Writing Award winner of the L.A. Live Festival in 2023. The citation for the prize commented “’Blood Ties’ is definitely a feature film that would attract large audiences at even larger venues. The Hemingway Award is our highest award ...
Views: 324 - How to Sell Books to Libraries - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2021 from Wm. Hovey SmithAn Effective Library Appeal For Your Book In the 1970s, before the internet, the standard way for an independent author to publicize his book to libraries was to send a copy to the institutions’ Acquisition Librarian. It helped if the author was a faculty or student member of the ...
Views: 699 - How to Write Your Book - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2020 from Wm. Hovey SmithAn extract from my forthcoming book "Make Your Own Job Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age" to be published in February, 2020 Writing a Book Often the most rapid way to establish credibility in a field is to write a book about a hot topic and use this book as a springboard to access members of ...
Views: 931 - Importance of Reviews - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2023 from Wm. Hovey SmithIt is always an ego-stroke to receive an honest, but favorable review on one of your books. This is one received today on my book "Make Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age." It has also received excellent reviews from Kirkus and the U.S. Review of books. Make Your Own Job by Wm. ...
Views: 449 - Incorporating Outdoor Materials into Novels - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2020 from Wm. Hovey SmithIncorporating Outdoor Materials into Novels Wm. Hovey Smith “Write what you know,” is a hackneyed piece of advice usually given to students in grade school when they are assigned their first story to turn in at the end of class. Fast forward 70 years and the novelist sitting at his computer ...
Views: 703 - Increased Productivity in the Time of Coronavirus - by Submitted on Mar 17, 2020 from Wm. Hovey SmithIncreased Productivity in the Time of Coronavirus Writing is by its nature a generally solitary occupation where for many of us a self-isolation is generally desired during at least part of the process. Now being 78 and a widower it is just me and Hector, my Lab, at home, and I do not have ...
Views: 981 - Is The Goldfarb Chronicles the Worst Book Of the Year? - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2023 from Wm. Hovey SmithWriters very quickly learn to take criticism. Almost any day any working writer will have his article, book, or screenplay rejected, and sometimes very harshly. Over the past half-century, this has happened to me many times, but yesterday I received a Kirkus review of my new novel "The Goldfarb ...
Views: 378 - Job Options if You Are/Were a Shutdown-Impacted Federal Employee or Retail Worker - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithJob Options if You Are/Were a Shutdown Impacted Federal Employee or Retail Worker If you were one of the 800,000 Federal workers involved in the recent, and maybe continuing partial government shutdown or are a former Sears or K-Mart employee and have lost your job, you are joining tens of ...
Views: 883 - Jobs for Laid-Off Assembly Line Workers - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithJobs for Laid-Off Assembly Line Workers Automation has replaced hundreds of thousands of assembly line workers and Human Resource Departments have not succeeded in finding jobs for many of them. All too often assembly line workers are considered by management as “interchangeable work ...
Views: 1081 - Last Screenplay from The Goldfarb Trilogy - by Submitted on May 01, 2023 from Wm. Hovey SmithFinal Screenplay from The Goldfarb Trilogy Starting the Rounds Texas Justice, the last of three screenplays derived from my soon-to-be-published novel, "The Goldfarb Trilogy" has been submitted to the Wiki Screenplay Contest as well as to the Austin Film Festival. An ad will go out to thousands ...
Views: 371 - LearnDesk 12-Video Business Creation Course Launches Feb. 7, 2023 - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2023 from Wm. Hovey SmithHovey Smith's School of Self-Reliance will offer its first LearnDesk business creation and training program on February 7, 2023.The course "Make Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age" will consist of 12 videos presented on the basis of two a week for six weeks which will explain how to ...
Views: 431 - Learning to Write a Movie Script Without Taking College Classes - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2020 from Wm. Hovey SmithStay at home rules and closing colleges has interrupted educational activities for many people. However, resources are available to enable you to learn how to write a movie without being on campus. I have completed a 30-minute video listing books, a writing program, and two college courses that ...
Views: 799 - Lost Your Job? Remote Work Could Be the Answer - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2021 from Wm. Hovey SmithSince the publication of my book "Create Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age" I have occasionally received correspondence from others working in the same field. The following article is by Amy Collett who requested that I post it on some of my sites. She was in the corporate world for 17 ...
Views: 625 - Make Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age A Business Softcover, E-Book, and Audio Book - by Submitted on Jan 17, 2021 from Wm. Hovey SmithReaching potential audiences where they are with business books is best done by offering products on a multiplicity of platforms as author Wm. Hovey Smith has done with his new business title, "Make Your Own Job: Anywhere, Anytime, At Any Age." which was nearly simultaneously published as a ...
Views: 766 - Muddling Mondays - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithMuddling Mondays You have returned to work on Monday after making a presentation at a trade show and a 4-to- 12 hour flight back home. After making a presentation at a trade show or other event and a long flight back home the body, mind and spirit are going to take time to recover, whether ...
Views: 2055 - Multiplicity of Jobs for the Post-Corona Decade - by Submitted on Jan 24, 2021 from Wm. Hovey SmithMultiplicity of Jobs for the Post Corona Decade Having the ability to do multiple jobs, perhaps in widely varying fields, is going to be a definite asset in the coming decade. Included in this mix is starting your own jobs to keep yourself going between periods of paid employment. Such jobs ...
Views: 633 - New Outdoor Books Reflect Changing Market Conditions - by Submitted on Aug 08, 2023 from Wm. Hovey SmithNew Outdoor Books Four recent books from southern authors can be used to illustrate changing market demands for hunting and fishing stories. This market is decreasing as pre-baby boomers and boomers are dying off, or becoming so sight-impaired they can no longer read, and the younger ...
Views: 305 - Novel "Until Death Do You Part: An American Family Meets Their Sicilian Cousins" Released as Audio Book - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2021 from Wm. Hovey SmithAs a writer I have written more than 20 books on outdoor and business topics. "Until Death Do You Part: An American Family Meets Their Sicilian Relatives" is now available as an audio book and is to be followed by an e-book, softcover, and perhaps ultimately a movie. My novel whose progress ...
Views: 670 - Old Guy Adapts to Social Distance Turkey Hunting - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2020 from Wm. Hovey SmithAge and the ills that go along with it happen. At 78 with the loss of agility and stamina in my leg muscles, I can no longer do the run-and-gun style of turkey hunting that I did as recently as five years ago. In addition, the social distance requirement of the corona virus outbreak keeps me and ...
Views: 918 - On Tom Anton's "Screw The Commute" Podcast on Friday - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2021 from Wm. Hovey SmithDay before yesterday I did an interview for Tom Anton's "Screw The Commute" entrepreneural podcast radio show which will be posted on Friday to iTunes, and just about every other podcast outlet you can think of. Tom is a radio host who likes to have a bit of fun with his shows, and he and I ...
Views: 583 - Overcoming Mental Blocks to Career Advancement - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithYou can overcome self-doubt and knowledge deficiencies to increase earnings by designing a job that fits your unique mix of talents and abilities. All of us have a unique set of knowledge and experiences. In modern regimented business models it is common to attempt to place people into jobs ...
Views: 915 - Overcoming Shyness in Life and Business - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithOvercoming Shyness in Life and Business Perhaps the best example of a person who has overcome shyness is the performing artist who stands naked on stage and presents his art before an audience of half-drunk New Yorkers in the wee hours of the morning. Whatever the artistic merit of the ...
Views: 907 - Pick Up Tuesdays - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithPick Up Tuesdays Most creative people who are not endowed with the “neatness gene” live a messy existence. Pick Up Tuesdays budgets one day a week to restore a degree of order to their environments. To the frequent dismay of those whose motto is, “Everything has its place and everything is ...
Views: 931 - Promo Video lFolr Your Screenplay-Movie Project - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2022 from Wm. Hovey SmithIn Hollywood screenplays are like assholes, everybody's got one. One relatively new wrinkle in screenplay presentation is the video pitch which is a short, 3-5-minute video that is seen in mass screenings by studio executives who select those they think are worth further attention - like ...
Views: 419 - Property Rights: Natural Law According to the Dog - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithProperty Rights: Natural Law According to the Dog What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine and what’s theirs is mine if I can get it. Our canines’ views of property rights are quite different from the usual Western legal constructions where property is transferred by sale, exchange, ...
Views: 861 - Protect Yourself and Financial Position from Chronovirus - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2020 from Wm. Hovey SmithProtecting Yourself and Financial Position from Coronavirus A five day trend for worldwide stock market plunges in reaction to the threat of the Coronavirus caused a fall of 1,000 points on the New York Stock Exchange’s on the news of new cases of the virus being located in Iran and Italy. At ...
Views: 904 - Reactions After My Second Covid-19 Vaccination in U.S. - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2021 from Wm. Hovey SmithIt has been a week since I had my second shot of the Covid-19 vaccine at my local VA hospital in Dublin, Georgia. There have been two problems with administering this vaccine. One has been reluctance by some to take the shot for fear of having an adverse reaction to it and another has been ...
Views: 746 - Recommendations for Reducing Depression While Recovering from Potentially Deadly Accidents and Diseases - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithRecommendations for Reducing Depression While Recovering from Potentially Deadly Accidents and Diseases Interesting, exciting and productive intellectual work can help reduce feelings of depression and lessen the need for drugs while undergoing treatment and rehab. A former U.S. Marine ...
Views: 915 - Recreating a Sicilian Terror Weapon of 1000 B.C. - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithRecreating a Sicilian Terror Weapon of 1000 B.C. Luigi, The Claw, one of the characters in the novel I am writing, Father of The Grooms, has been an active Mafia member since World War II. As a boy he participated in the resistance against the Germans and suffered the loss of his left hand ...
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