Tips for Writing Your First Book

Have you had a desire to write a book? Many people want to write a book but it takes iniative, strength and motivation to carry it out. Let's get some advice/find out what someone else that wants to write a book has to say. Maybe you will gain some insight or encouragement of what step you need to take next.

I have always wanted to write a novel. I have been one of those people who says, “I feel like I have a book in me,” while doing nothing about it. I have made a start and am focussed on writing more than one book. But first things first. I have to finish writing a first book before I can envisage a future where my trilogy of movie rights has been sold to Hollywood (for a many-figured sum)....My previous writing experience includes writing bad short stories as an adult and teenage poetry filled with an appropriate level of angst. Oh, and this blog. When I decided last year to take the leap into novel writing, I read a book by Stephen King called ‘On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.’ I recommend it for the aspiring writer. Whether you like his writing or not, he has some good points that I have taken onboard.

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Is Australia the Face of Climate Change to Come?

As years go by what used to be strange or severe weather is becoming a normal thing. Should we adjust our attitude and way of thinking? Should we let go of what we thought was severe weather and accept it as a normal weather pattern and move forward learning how to adapt to the new weather patterns?

In early 2012 once-in-a-century floods submerged swaths of Great Britain and Ireland, causing some $1.52 billion in damages. Then in June record-high temperatures in Russia sparked wildfires that consumed 74 million acres of pristine Siberian taiga. Months after that, Hurricane Sandy pummeled seven countries, killing hundreds and running up an estimated $75 billion in damages. Just this week, a tornado of virtually unheard of size and ferocitytore through a small city in Oklahoma, leaving 24 people dead.

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The rough-hewn sandstone buildings perched atop Observatory Hill have been keeping an eye on Sydney Harbor since 1858. They've pretty much seen it all—from the installation of the city's first gaslights to the construction of the now iconic Sydney Opera House and Harbor Bridge.
But at 2:55 p.m. on January 18, 2013, meteorological equipment in the observatory registered something new: a read-out marking the hottest day in the city's history: 45.8°C (114.4°F).

Much of the continent was languishing in the grip of a heat wave that would break 123 heat and flood-related records in 90 days—among them, the hottest summer on record and the hottest seven consecutive days ever recorded. 

read more in this article about the changing weather patterns.