Ever Wondered What Happened to ICOs?

Although I have been in the blockchain space for more than 3 years, I am not from tech, which is probably why this post will be looking more into the

Communities Rule: What Hive vs Steemit is All About

Unlike many others, I ended up in the blockchain thanks to my passion for writing and creating online content. My writer friends recommended Steemit, I tried it and started blogging

Be a Voice, Not an Echo

These days I am trying to get some downtime. When I get home from work I need to turn off the notifications, unplug from the internet and different apps and

Ode to all misfits

Just like in that famous song, I was born in the USSR. Yup... I am THAT old and yup... that country no longer exists. The Soviet culture had strong imprint in many

It always seems impossible until it’s done

Today I wanna talk about something that crossed my mind a few times yesterday. I mean if you have similar thoughts a few times a day provoked by completely different

Pair of Sergio Rossi

When she was graduating from the business uni she had a dream. A dream of working in a big international bank… no, not like a PA or any other “beautiful

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Tell your stories

All of us have a story to tell. At least one. Our life story. Some of us have many stories to tell. So many that we can’t choose which one

Un-learn before it’s too late

Since a very young age, we are told what to do. Parents dictate or in the best case share their life values and views with their children. The schoolteachers tell

Choices

Often I look back at my life choices and smile to myself. There are many I would most probably not make… on the other hand, there were times when I

Misunderstood exit

Two icons (Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain) took their own lives in the same week. It's sad and painful and I can't even imagine in what level of darkness they had

Karma is a bitch

Everything changed with time. Her hair turned white. Wrinkles visited her face and stayed there, getting deeper and more visible. Memories occupied most of her thoughts and she preferred them

Jack (Daniels) + memories = inspiration

She sat there and stared at the blank screen. More than 15 minutes had passed like that. Neither the coffee, nor the music helped… Publisher’s deadline was tight and the writer’s

9/11

There were times when I wrote well... These days I rarely do so and feel both guilty and angry about it. Back then when I was creative I took intensive writer's

Are You Busy Too?

These days everyone seems to be busy. Many are busy being busy. Some are busy pretending they are busy. Others are always busy because they can't figure out how to manage

How to Build Your Audience (the brutal truth)

I am not a LinkedIn marketing pro. I have not been active in here for a long time and there is a lot that I still have not figured out.

Night Musings (or why I love being awake while you are asleep)

I love the nights...That's when my creativity wakes up. It waits for everyone else to fall asleep to make sure that no one will disrupt its flow.At nights my senses

A Talk About Challenges

My grandfather was an astrophysicist and all my vacations (including the 3 month summer vacation) we spent at the observatory, which was in a mountains. It was a beautiful quite

Lead Inspired Life

In this episode I would like to talk about inspiration. We all know how important being inspired is. Most of us lead dull and ordinary lives, and spend most of our

Find the Write Mindset

Download Your Free Guide - FIND THE WRITE MINDSET & GET PUBLISHED: The 5 Steps To Build Your Writing Confidence The thing is many talk about how to write a book, how

Writer’s Struggles

Today I decided to be completely honest and share my struggles with you. And the reason for this is not to ask for pity or anything. I simply thought that

About Inspiration and Experiences

Guess what? Write 2B Read podcast is almost 1 years old and its birthday is on July 1st. I thought about how to celebrate that milestone and yes it

Coincidences in Life

First of all thank you so much for the amazing feedback for the episode 100. For those who have not listened to it - the write 2b read podcast episode

What They Don’t Teach at Schools

When I was young we trusted the educational system and thought that it was enough to gian all the knowledge one needs to have for the adult life. Maybe that’s

Why We Give Up

We all have given up at some point. All of us at a certain point have stopped believing that we’ll be able to make it. Some of us have done

A Talk About Success

I am not sure you know this, but a while ago I was a self-development blogger. My blog was called Life Probabilities and although I am no longer the owner

Dream Big. Start Small

The whole week I’ve been thinking a lot. The more I thought the more I got confused. Well thinking too much is a dangerous thing I have to say. Sometimes

The Importance of Relationships

Today I would like to talk about numbers… No, no - we will not go into maths or any calculations. I want to talk about how the digital numbers sort of

Opportunities in Life and Writing

While many of those who live here are over excited about Kim Kardashyan’s visit to Armenia I instead make sure that you have fresh audio content that will encourage and inspire

Stop Waiting and Start Acting

I personally hate waiting… Waiting puts me into vulnerable situation. When I am waiting for something it feels like I do accept the fact that the thing won’t happen until

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If You Don’t Build Your Dream Someone Will Hire You to Help Build Theirs

I made my very first speech yesterday at the Happiness Club meeting. So another tick on my "to-try" list was made. I decided to share the text of what I spoke

Unread Story is a Broken Dream!

Today I would like to talk to you about the most exciting and at the same time scariest moment. That is the moment when what you’ve been working on for

Roller Skates, Falls and Writing

When I was about 6 years old I got my very first roller skates. To be honest I don’t even remember where they came from, but they were very classy

How to Deal with Lack of Acknowledgement

A while ago I told you the story of how I started writing. I still can’t explain why and how exactly that happened. But after the first poem, which I

Share your writings with the world

First of all, I’d like to wish you a Merry Christmas. I wish you love, success and many new experiences. I wish new achieved goals, new written books, new reasons to

You ARE a Writer!

This time I’ll talk about something that seems to be important to many of us. I’ll share my thoughts about being a writer and how you get there. Every year, here

Writer’s Block? Really?

Today was one of those days… I procrastinated for a long time before I sat down to write. I didn’t even have to look for excuses – there were so many. There

Are You Afraid of Being Judged? (You Should Not Be!)

There was a girl, who had passion for writing. She started writing accidently. One afternoon she was doodling in the kitchen and somehow ended up writing a poem in about

Where to Find Writing Ideas

Get My Thank You Gifts Now! As my thank you gift for all those who have subscribed and reviewed my podcast I am offering 2 ebooks for writers + 3 lucky

A Talk About Criticism

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” ― Aristotle In this episode I am talking about criticism and how to deal with it. Before I was also afraid to be criticized

1999 (Flash Fiction)

I don’t have a time machine… but I can go back in time and re-create the reality of the past. Not that I live in the past and am not

First Writing Experiences

In this episode I share the story of my very first writing experience. Back then I did not realize that it was the starting point of a long and exciting

10 Famous Fiction Writers Who Reached Success Through Failure

Famous writers don’t need to seek literary agents and publishers. They don’t have to worry if their books will sell or not. Famous writers don’t have day jobs and have

Life & Writing Opportunities

Did you know that if you close your eyes facing towards the sun you’ll see very nice bright colors inside your head. The colors will be changing and vary from

How to Detect Exciting and Powerful Fiction

Before books looked more-less the same and they were sold only in book stores... Now they are not only on your shelves as hard covers, but also in your e reader, computer,

The Day I Started Breathing Words

photo by Apertureblades Note: I am participating in the ‘Writing Contest: You Are A Writer’ held by Positive Writer.” - See more here I was only 16. For the 4th time already we took our suitcases

Embrace Your Passion When It Comes

These days different courses, couching sessions and blogs which are supposed to find your passion are very popular. Maybe it is because more and more people leading ordinary lives

10 Reasons To Welcome Criticism

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” ― Aristotle I wrote my first novel Highfall few months ago. For the first time I wrote fiction, which was longer than 3 pages.

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You’re alive!

When love knocks your soul When jealousy puts its foot on your throat When passion makes you breathless When everything else seems senseless When music plays on your soul's strings When creativity makes strong kicks When

Beer memories

With each sip of beer a memory enters my mind ... Memories,which have nothing in common,which are from different periods of mylife and which are nothing more than just memories.

Midnight in Paris

I could not skip Woody Allen's new film and watched it with great pleasure. It seems that Woody has become milder and more romantic with the age. His sarcasm and

Margin Call

At my uni years, when I was doing my majors in corporate finance and portfolio management, I imagined myself being one of the best stock investment brokers at Wall Street

New Years…

I was thinking about thepas tNew Years and few came up to mind, since they have some how impressed me more than the rest. Here they are: 1984 Mum, aunt and grandma are in the kitchen since the morning. They boil, fry, chop and bake... The speed and quantity of the manu

3 metros sobre el cielo

I was not psychologically ready to watch the movie, but I cameacross it when it had just started and could not get away... This will not be a classical review; rather

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona

I always loved Woody Allen. At first it was based on the main fact that he was different, but after Vicky Christina Barcelone it is also based on the fact

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More than…

I love you more than songs can say I love you more than words can shout I love you more than pain may ache I love you very very loud Sometimes I think it’s

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Eat, Pray, Love!

Eat love Pray – first everyone spoke about the book and the author, now everyone speaks about the film. A woman in her thirties reached the stage when she lost

Chloe

Lately, instead of reading I spend my evenings watching movies. It most probably means that I still want to fill myself with emotions and thoughts, but with less effort because

so positive!

Life is interesting…. It’s full of unexpected surprises, which come out of complete bloom, out of nowhere and make your day! She got out of the office building and faced the clouds

Metro Rides

I was driving home in the metro train, tired and hungry after work. There was a young girl standing nearby, with long slender feet and very tight white trousers accenting her

Collecting memories

Today I went to the seashore and collected stones. Usually I am not that emotionally attached to places and memories, but this time it was different. This was the

Francoise Sagan – Aimes-vous Brahms…

I read this book yesterday and for n-th time realized that I don’t like feminine books. This one was not only feminine but also about a stupid female, and that

Strength and weakness…

Sometimes being strong is a weakness… Sometimes, when people leave you when you need them to stay you’re too strong to ask them… Sometimes, when you need help, you’re too strong to

The Unusual Romantic

Usually the first associations of “romantic” are red roses, candlelight dinners and of course Paris. For me it’s something different… It’s the atmosphere of air filled with the unspoken, unexpected, unplanned but

Love’s shapes and colors

With the time her knowledge of what love is changes. These days love gets more colors and shapes, it looks completely different and its value too has been changed. Signs

Moments, which made me feel alive!

I was taking a shower in order to wash away my irritation and some sad thoughts. As the hot water was pouring down I had snapshots of several moments when

Habits Lost and Found

I was washing a pan. Like in childhood I made too much foam and started drawing on it and writing letters with my finger. I wrote & erased, drew &

Random thoughts in puzzle form

I just finished a book by Gabrial Garcia marquez and it let to different feelings and thoughts. In fact I think that if you do not feel anything or think of