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- 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: 14 - 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: 59 - 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: 109 - 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: 147 - 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: 139 - 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: 128 - The Return of Coal - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithThe Return of Coal Straight off the Graveyard Shift the 6-foot 200 lb. guy on my back steps was at the point of tears. The contrast between him and me at now less than 5-foot 7-inches and about 165 pounds was striking as I opened my back door in response to his rap. I appreciated that he had ...
Views: 129 - The Case for a Child Parent Hunt - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithThe Case for a Child-Parent Hunt Wm. Hovey Smith November 4, 2019 By the end of the third day of Georgia’s Primitive Weapons hunt on Ossabaw ...
Views: 149 - Untangling the Knotty Problems of Life - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithUntangling Life’s Knotty Problems Wm. Hovey Smith, Nov., 2019 “Don’t sweat the small stuff” is an often heard admonition. Cleaning up after a camping trip brought this lesson into focus in a powerful way as I attempted to untangle a knot of three different sizes of ropes and cords after a ...
Views: 161 - 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 ...
Views: 224 - When is is Appropriate for a Writer to Make a Foreign Trip? - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithForeign travel on an intercontinental scale is time consuming, tiring and expensive. Flight times from the U.S. to China can be 30 hours and 12-15 hours to most locations in Europe. Those living in Australia, New Zealand, Africa, South America and India also face many hours in an aircraft to ...
Views: 258 - 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: 408(1 vote) - 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: 284 - 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: 445 - 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: 472 - 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: 1365 - 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: 253(1 vote) - Wrap Up Wednesdays - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithWrap Up Wednesdays Consolidate Plans for End of Week Presentations. Everything regarding your coming presentation to the public or company officials needs to be checked and finalized. If postponed until the day before there is a danger that in the rush to pack up that a needed piece of ...
Views: 302 - 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: 292 - Writing Fiction while Sitting Before the Bogwood Fire - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithWriting Fiction while Sitting by the Bogwood Fire Bogwood.n. Darkly colored wood that may be 10s of thousands of years old recovered from marshes and bogs in typically northern latitudes that is dried and used for fuel in areas where other wood is scarce or absent. Just as the captive ...
Views: 346 - Starting a Business While Working for Someone Else - by Submitted on Mar 10, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithStarting Another Business While Working for Someone Else Ethical ways to start another company or create a new job while working for someone else. “When you take the King’s shilling, you are the King’s man.” Is a quote from Old English that still resonates today. When you are employed by ...
Views: 468 - Working Through Sick Days - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithWorking Through Sick Days How you can continue productive work through your annual bout with colds, flu and sinus infections. An annual debilitating fight with colds and other respiratory diseases is something that impacts everyone from the CEO to the worker who is contracted to clean the ...
Views: 456 - 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: 387 - Truck Drivers as Potential Entrepreneurs - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithTruck Drivers as Potential Entrepreneurs A life on the road teaches many things that are useful for starting new businesses. The image of the American truck driver as a white, cigar smoking, fat, bigoted slob, is unfortunately what comes to mind to most potential employers when they see ...
Views: 396 - 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: 426 - 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: 415 - 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: 234 - 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: 280 - 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: 425 - 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: 262 - 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: 384 - 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: 267 - 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: 277 - 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: 283 - 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: 298 - Stay or Move With Your Job: Increasing Your Options - by Submitted on Feb 07, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithStay or Move with Your Job: Increasing Your Options When you work for the largest company in your city or town and they decide to close their production lines and move elsewhere, do you move with your job, or stay put and hope you can find work at another company? When you went to work for a ...
Views: 380 - Taking Control of Your Own Life: Making the Transition from Punching Bag to Fighter - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithTaking Control of Your Own Life: Making the Transition from Punching Bag to Fighter A fighter who quits can never win. A fighter who stays in the ring may win and will learn from the experience. Wm. Hovey Smith, Author of Create Your Own Job Security. If you ever played high school ...
Views: 307 - 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: 322 - 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: 283 - 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: 1005 - 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: 310 - Regular Order: Natural Law According to the Dog - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithRegular Order According to the Dog All actions by my humans must be done the same way every day. Just as the sun rises and sets each day, our canine companions feel that their humans should also keep the same schedule and become disquieted when we are not compliant with what they view as ...
Views: 343 - 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 ...
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