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·Updated 19 hours ago

About Me — Darryl Brooks

Writer, Photographer, Guitarist, and Some Other Stuff

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20 hours ago

Index: Stories

My Most Popular Stories: Fiction and Memoirs

The first article I ever wrote as a professional writer:

Thirty-Eight Seconds

Your whole life can change in the blink of an eye

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The Games

How I heard about Richard Jewell for the first time

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No Hesitation

How I took off in eight airplanes before I ever landed in one.

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My Dad Taught Me One Thing

That Has Led to Every Success I’ve Ever Had

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Confessions of an Old Gamer

And we ain’t talking checkers, here

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The Chain

A man on the dock was gagged and duct-taped to a chair. Several loops of chain wrapped around him and the chair…

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Box in the Attic

Don’t go there, if you don’t want to see it

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I Know He’s Coming Back

And I’ll wait right here until he does

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Christmas in Prison

It was Christmas in prison.

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The Night Light

Monsters and Such

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An Unfortunate Accident

And a Little Black Book

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The Last Home

At the end of the road

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It’s Not My Tribe

But a Day of Atonement Is Not a Bad Idea

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How the Stars Aligned

It’s Not About What You Know; It’s About When You Were Born

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The Old Wind

It was an old wind, an ancient wind

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The Refrigerator

What happens when the lights go out

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Pigwell

Time isn’t measured by days or weeks

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Buddy

If Gimli Were From Tennessee

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Breakdown

Stuck between a rock and a hard case

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Index: Writing

My Most Popular Articles

How to Go From Being a Writer to Being a Successful Writer

This is how I did it and you can do it too.

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The Secret to Your Success as a Writer Is Easier Than You Think

How you can get good at anything

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Why I Hate Medium

If you haven’t started, you should run away

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How Medium Wants You to Do Medium

And how it’s really done

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My 4 Month Journey of Discovery as a Writer on Medium

Follow in my footsteps if you want to

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How I Earned $1,453.13 in My Fifth Month on Medium

Maybe You Can Do the Same

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How to Create a Killer Headline that Hooks Readers

If They Don’t Click On It, You Have Wasted Your Time

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How You Can Increase Your Followers as a Writer

By Following These 6 Simple Steps

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Simple Ways to Find Ideas on Which to Write

Feed the beast every day.

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How You Can Begin to Write Every Day

I’ve Been Doing It for Six Months

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How Do You Find Ideas to Write About?

How do you not?

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Just reading my work is all the support I need, but if you’d like to Buy Me a Coffee, that would be great.

Thanks for reading

21 hours ago

Index: Life Lessons

My Most Popular Articles

My All-Time Most Popular Article:

The Only Thing You Need to Know About How to Lose Weight

And you can start right now, for free

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When Do You Have Enough Money?

You May Be Surprised at the Answer

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How 20 Seconds Changed My Life

And it can change yours too

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More of What You Need to Know About How to Lose Weight

And It’s Still Easy and Free

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If You Want the Answer to a Problem, You Need to Ask the Right Question

Problems Have Solutions. Questions Have Answers

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Start Your Day off Right

You set the tone for your whole day the moment you wake up

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Sooner or Later You Are Going to Have to Commit

Stop Thinking About It and Do It

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What I Learned After One Month With a Guitar

Spoiler Alert: It’s Not How to Play The Guitar

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Sorry, I Can’t Tell You How to Make Money

But I Can Tell You, You Have Some Work to Do

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This Is the Only Book You Need to Read to Unlock Your Productivity

And It’s Almost 40 Years Old

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If you have any requests for future articles, please leave them in the comments.

Just reading my work is all the support I need, but if you’d like to Buy Me a Coffee, that would be great.

Thanks for reading

21 hours ago

Index: Productivity

My Most Popular Articles

This Is the Only Book You Need to Read to Unlock Your Productivity

And It’s Almost 40 Years Old

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How to Do a Weekly Review to Increase Your Productivity

Evaluate what is working well and what isn’t.

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How to Do a Productivity Review With Nimbus Notes

And Keep Your Projects on Track

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Thoughts and Use Cases for Three Productivity Apps

Evernote, Notion, and ClickUp

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How to Stop Planning and Start Doing

Focus on Today and Get More Done

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What Do You Do If You Don’t Have a Plan?

And How Do You Get Where You’re Going?

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Quit Getting Things Done and Get Things Done

Stop planning what to do and just do it

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How to Prepare to Get More Things Done

Do this before you work so you can work better

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Plan Time to Waste Time

And get more done

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What You Need to Do to Keep Producing All Day

Pace yourself.

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If you have any requests for future articles, please leave them in the comments.

Just reading my work is all the support I need, but if you’d like to Buy Me a Coffee, that would be great.

Thanks for reading

21 hours ago

Index: Technology

My Most Popular Articles

How to Do a Productivity Review With Nimbus Notes

And Keep Your Projects on Track

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How to Use Notion: Day One

Everything you need to know to get started

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How to Use Notion: Day Two

Everything you need to know to get started

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An Introduction to Evernote

What it is and what it is not

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How to Use Evernote

A Beginner’s Guide

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Is Evernote Still the Best?

Will It Ever Be Again?

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How to Use Notion: Day Three

Everything you need to know to get started

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How to Use Notion: Day Four

Everything you need to know to get started

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Moving From Evernote to Nimbus Note

A Detailed Tutorial

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Why I Think Evernote is Still the Best

But I Don’t Know For How Long

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How to Get Started with ClickUp: Day One

One app to replace them all

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How to Use ClickUp: Day Two

One app to replace them all

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How to Use ClickUp: Day Three

One app to replace them all

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If You’ve Never Tried Evernote, Now May Be the Perfect Time

It Can Only Get Better

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Organizing Documents in ClickUp

Using the ClickUp Hierarchy to Bring Order to Chaos

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What has Evernote Become Today?

And Where Will It Be Tomorrow?

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I Believe It May Finally Be Time to Say Goodbye to the Green Elephant

It’s Not Me; It’s You

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Evernote vs. ClickUp

Which is Right For You?

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If you have any requests for future articles, please leave them in the comments.

Just reading my work is all the support I need, but if you’d like to Buy Me a Coffee, that would be great…

Index: Photography

My Most Popular Articles

The Secret Camera Stores Don’t Want You To Know

And this secret will save you a ton of money in life too.

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In Photography, What is Dynamic Range?

And why should you care?

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How to Start a Stock Photography Business

And Be Successful With It

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How to Submit Your Photography to Stock Photo Platforms

And make money as a result

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4 Reasons Your Next Camera Should Not Be Mirrorless

What do you think?

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How to Take Amazing Macro Photos of Flowers

Sharp and vibrant closeups of flowers aren’t as hard as you may think

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What Is the Sunny 16 Rule in Photography?

And how do you use it?

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What is Macro Photography?

And Is It Right for Me?

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Why is Aperture Priority Better Than Manual Mode?

And is it right for you?

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4 Simple Tips to Get Better at Photography Immediately

And they are all free

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Of course, most of these can be found in my own publication:

The Digital Photographer

Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials to Make You a Better Photographer. From beginners through intermediate photographers, this…

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If you have any requests for future articles, please leave them in the comments.

Just reading my work is all the support I need, but if you’d like to Buy Me a Coffee, that would be great.

Thanks for reading

23 hours ago

My top ten most popular articles on Medium.

The Secret Camera Stores Don’t Want You To Know

And this secret will save you a ton of money in life too.

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The Only Thing You Need to Know About How to Lose Weight

And you can start right now, for free

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Is Evernote Still the Best?

Will It Ever Be Again?

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How to Use Notion: Day One

Everything you need to know to get started

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This Is the Only Book You Need to Read to Unlock Your Productivity

And It’s Almost 40 Years Old

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When Do You Have Enough Money?

You May Be Surprised at the Answer

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How to Use Notion: Day Four

Everything you need to know to get started

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4 Reasons Your Next Camera Should Not Be Mirrorless

What do you think?

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Moving From Evernote to Nimbus Note

A Detailed Tutorial

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An Introduction to Evernote

What it is and what it is not

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1 day ago

How Juggling Taught Me the Methodology Required to Master Anything

Without Dropping the Ball

A man juggling one apple, learning one thing at a time — Photo by Jose Puma on Unsplash

Do you know how to juggle?

Do you want to?

Well, I have some excellent news for you. If you read this article to the end, you will not only know how to learn the art of juggling; you will know how to learn anything.

Without dropping any balls.

Okay, you will probably drop a few. So practice with tennis balls instead of, say, eggs or hand grenades. Safety first, right?

But what does juggling have to do with learning the guitar or brain surgery? Patience, Grasshopper. All will be made clear.

Or not. But hang in there for a…