You need social skills to have a conversation in real life but they’re quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few “anti-social skills,” like eavesdropping and muttering to yourself, that can help you write an effective dialogue for your next story in this animated Ted Ed lesson. Click to watch.
Category Archives: Personal development
Building a better world with Booko: Home for the Soul
Home for the Soul is about creating a considerate and sustainable home that sparks happiness and reflects the spirits, passions, and tastes of its inhabitants.
Building a better world with Booko: Home by Natural Harry
Home By Natural Harry is a modern reference for anyone who wants to ditch their joyless supermarket habit, reduce plastic waste and save money along with the world.
Building a better world with Booko: What Can I Do?
What Can I Do is a call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest.
Building a better world with Booko: Climate change and how we’ll fix it
We know what we need to do – so why don’t we just sort out climate change? Many kids (and quite a few adults) have asked the question; Climate Change and How We’ll Fix It will answer it, with a positive but realistic vision of what the solution to our global crisis looks like.
Building a better world with Booko: No-Waste Organic Gardening
Conquering the increasingly important art of responsible gardening is a whole lot easier than you might think, with help from No-Waste Organic Gardening.
#tuesdaychat
On the bright side of 2020 we’ve had a lot of time to read. What has been the best book you’ve read this year? Perhaps it was a classic that’s been on your reading list for ages, or a new release.
Building a better world with Booko: 365 Days of Sustainability
365 Days of Sustainability is filled to the brim with actionable ways, tips, and advice to help us all make a collective difference in our beautiful world every day of the year.
Monday Inspo
There’s nothing better than starting book and discovering a brand new world. This week on the blog we’ll be picking our favs of the best-selling book lists from around the world.
Building a better world with Booko: Quitting Plastic
Quitting Plastic offers simple, practical tips to help you reduce plastic in your daily life and help the planet too. It’s our pick fo the day.