I'm very regularly surprised by the number of people who:
1) Don't realize how toxic popular plant-based vegetable oils (canola, corn, soy, etc) are.
2) Don't realize how inexplicably unavoidable they are unless you cook everything at home.
Check the label for anything you buy from a grocery store, and if it comes in any kind of packaging there is an exceptionally high chance it has vegetable oil in it.
Go to a restaurant and ask them how they cook their food. 99/100 times they'll tell you they use canola oil or a canola/olive oil blend.
Getting some form of this question a lot, so if you wanna learn more on the health concerns with vegetable oils healthline articles have a good collection of primary sources you can peruse.
I'll work on publishing the studies I've compiled too.
Going from writing non-fiction blog posts to writing a non-fiction book has been harder than I expected.
Here are 9 things I wish I had known before starting...
1/ Tweets and articles have ruined your internal locus of writing motivation.
When you get a rush of dopamine every day or week as the payoff for your work, it will be excruciating to go for months with none.
One option is to tell yourself to just be proud of your work and not need external validation.
But it's much easier to have a few trusted people who can occasionally look at things and remind you that yes, you know what you're doing, and no, it's not terrible.
I think making a conscious effort to spend as much of my day outside as possible (even while working) has done more for my day-to-day sense of well-being than almost any other change.
I’ve never written a novel before, but I want to this year.
So I’ve read ~10 books on the fiction writing process in the last couple of months.
Here’s the best guide to outlining an idea for a book I’ve found:
(From Conflict & Suspense by James Scott Bell)
1/ Start with your LOCK:
a LEAD character worth following.
an OBJECTIVE with physical, spiritual, or professional death on the line.
a CONFRONTATION with a stronger opponent (antagonist)
a KNOCKOUT ending that surprises & delights the reader
Write them all down on a notecard.
2/ A Disturbance and a Doorway:
Come up with a DISTURBANCE in your Lead's life that creates their Objective.
Then a DOORWAY OF NO RETURN through which they pass, leading eventually to their major CONFRONTATION.
Also called the CALL TO ADVENTURE and the THRESHOLD