Comedy Article About Australian Music

A few months ago I had a bizarre experience listening to a CD of traditional Australian music. I wrote an article about it, which you can find below: https://steemit.com/comedy/@gcsalter/strange-encounters-with-australian-music

Silly Ways to Advertise Your Book

In a recent Steemit post, I talk about absurd and silly ways you could advertise your first book: https://steemit.com/sunriseoverbeijing/@gcsalter/bizarre-ways-to-advertise-your-book This article came from a conservation about my first book, now available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sunrise-Over-Beijing-Connor-Salter-ebook/dp/B07B9P48LV/ref=la_B07BB6LZ8H_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8

Great Short Story by Ryan S. O’Malley

You may remember my blog about one of my short stories being made into an audiobook by Tall Tale TV. Tall Tale TV just adapted "Last Rites," a story by my friends Ryan S. O'Malley. I highly recommend listening to it. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-fRq_iwk7w  

Just started using Steemit

I recently joined Steemit, a website where you can release content and get paid for it. Here's my first Steemit post: https://steemit.com/calendar/@gcsalter/slanted-calendar Enjoy

Photo Collages

  I enjoy messing with photos and seeing what I can come up with. It's especially interesting when you're working with smartphone images, which are naturally low quality and you can create something surreal or unusual without ruining the quality. Recently I took a bunch of smartphone photographs I took of clouds during my trip …

My Latest Short Story: “The Best in the Business”

Sometimes, I write fiction. Recently, I submitted a 300-word short story to a contest by Booknest.eu which has an interesting feature: every story that gets submitted gets posted for 1 month until the contest ends. So, even if you don't win the contest, you get exposure as a writer. I highly recommend submitting to this contest. …

10 Tips for Surviving a Universal Monster Movie

With Halloween coming up next month, I decided to finish watching Universal Studios' best-known monster movies (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Invisible Man, The Mummy, The Creature from the Black Lagoon). I've already mentioned one of these movies in a recent article, and plan to analyze another in an article I'll release at the end of October. For now, …

Six-Word Story

6-word short stories are interesting. One of the most famous ones is attributed to Ernest Hemingway and goes like this: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. I recently finished a round of short stories for a contest, here's one of the ones that didn't make the final cut, titled "Later": Somehow, I forget her every day.

A Great Article on Living Abroad

Recently, I had the chance to talk with Hope Bolinger, a fellow Taylor University student, about the struggles of growing up overseas and transitioning from one culture to another. She wrote an excellent article on the topic, quoting me and several Taylor University faculty members who've had multicultural childhoods. You can check  it out here on the website …

Changes to Blog Schedule

Some of you may remember my announcement several months ago that I would post blogs every other week because of summer work obligations. I had planned to get back to my original, one-blog-a-week schedule when September rolled around, but several things  - a fall internship, my new position as a Content Creator for The Odyssey -  have …