Mar 30Member-only4 Easy Steps To Create A Video With Your Words In Only 60 SecondsMy experiment with AI tools through numerous meetups and sessions online covered interesting topics like ChatGPT, Canva, OpenAI, Quillbot and more. But I’ve discovered there’s a lot more you can do. For starters, you can turn the text in your book into an Audiobook. I’ve covered this in a previous…Aitools4 min readAitools4 min read
Mar 9Member-onlyHow I Used AI To Create An Audio of My Book Chasing Himalayan Dreams For FreeI’ve been doing experiments with AI for a while now. I’ve done numerous meetups and sessions online about how AI can be a useful tool for writers. If you’re interested in learning more about ChatGPT, Canva, OpenAI, Quillbot and more join me in my other sessions. …Aiaudiotool3 min readAiaudiotool3 min read
Mar 9Member-onlyHow do you Fulfil a Dream as big as Kanchenjunga?Chasing Himalayan Dreams - Never too late to fulfil a dream Watch Chasing Himalayan Dreams - Never too late to fulfil a dream via @adilovideoadilo.bigcommand.com Transcipt Summary You fulfil it by taking the first step — by walking! Chasing Himalayan Dreams takes you off to a part of the Himalayas that you might not be familiar with, a ridge overseeing a mountain called Kanchenjunga. It had been a dream of mine for 40 years to complete this trek…Kanchenjunga8 min readKanchenjunga8 min read
Feb 14Member-onlyHappy Valentine’s Day BooksHappy Valentine’s Day Books! These books are in search of any author — is it you? This year, I’m finishing two books, my latest hiking book about my Camino, and my historical fiction book. That came about because I love historical fiction, but there was no, or very little historical fiction about lands and…Historicalfiction3 min readHistoricalfiction3 min read
Feb 12Member-onlyHow an AI Story Writer Can Boost Your Productivity as An AuthorI know everyone’s going crazy over ChatGPT, and if you don’t want to know about it, that’s okay. However, I’ve been having great fun playing with artificial intelligence and similar resources for nearly a year now. I’ve mainly been using it for art because I am a writer, not an…Author9 min readAuthor9 min read
Jan 27Member-onlyThe Best Colours for a CaminoRecently a favourite Camino author, Joanna Penn, shared a blog on how she chose her cover for her book. It was excellent, and very much in sync of how I believe we should research book covers that attract the right readers, and, how sometimes, you should follow your intuition too…Colorpsychology3 min readColorpsychology3 min read
Dec 31, 2022Member-onlyThe Holy Year of 2022 ends on Dec 31st and the Door of Mercy closesScraping in through the Door of Mercy What is the Door of Mercy? The Door of Mercy is a door to the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela that is only open in a Holy Year. In Santiago, a Holy year is when the Saint’s Feast day, July 25th, falls on a Sunday. That happened in 2021, however, the Pope declared that it would…July25th3 min readJuly25th3 min read
Dec 31, 2022Member-onlyHow to be a Pilgrim on The Camino (and at Home)How to be a Pilgrim on the Camino (and at Home) The Eight + 1 Things you Need to Know to Feed your Pilgrim Soul What makes a successful pilgrimage isn’t distance traveled but commitment to the journey itself, and you can do this with me, whether you are walking on the Way or at home. Hear the call and respondCaminodesantiago4 min readCaminodesantiago4 min read
Dec 30, 2022Member-onlyThe 30-day series: Establishing your Author BrandIt is never too early to establish your author brand. Get professional covers and graphics One thing that can destroy your brand is amateurish covers and graphics. While you can use Some tools, like Canva, for other graphics like your posts in social media or your emails always use a book cover professional for your…Books And Authors2 min readBooks And Authors2 min read
Dec 30, 2022Member-onlyThe 30-day series: Outlining and Writing QuicklyAn Idea and Outline for Your Book Today Spend some time brainstorming. You can try just drawing out a mind-map but first you need a main idea for your book, and an outline that shows each chapter, and a bulleted list for each chapter.Outlining2 min readOutlining2 min read