The Mercury Writers' Guild Blog
Welcome to the Guild of God Mercury—the hub where TSL writers connect and cooperate on writing projects for the Great White Brotherhood. We’re glad you’re here. Check out the sections below to find your areas of interest and get started!
Learn Speaking Skills from an Expert
This March, our guest speaker was Carol Brenner, who shared powerful techniques on public speaking and debuted her professional 8-minute speaker reel, created as part of her certification from The Big Talk Academy in New York City.
The ABCs of Rule-Bending
English has always been one of my favourite subjects—the art of weaving words to make an object feel tangible, to breathe life into it with description. Losing myself in a book feels like stepping through a portal, transported to another world where reality fades, and imagination takes flight.
How to Spell Almost Everything
In this series of blogs, Writing Woes, I will share with you some amusing insights on the mistakes people inadvertently make when writing, based on my work as a professional tutor and as a writer for Summit University. (You can visit my tutoring website here: https://lynnthetutor.com)
TSL is looking for an Editor or Proof Reader
A usual career path to becoming an editor is to take a course in copy editing, then you start working on proof reading. If you do well there, you graduate to copy editing. If you do well there, you can graduate to developmental editing.
Dashes of Drama and Utility
Look at these: - – —. In order, they are hyphen, en dash, em dash. The hyphen is next to the zero; the en dash (on my Mac) is Option+hyphen; the em dash is Shift+Option+hyphen.
Spiritual Alchemy
Everything vibrates. This clearly implies that everything is a manifestation of energy. Let’s further assume that electricity is the most pervasive form of energy. (For more information, search for “plasma cosmology” or “the electric universe.”)
TSL Copyright Permissions and Trademarks
Copyright is a property right given to authors that allows them to control, protect, and exploit their artistic works. In simpler terms, copyright is the right to copy. This means that the original creators of products and anyone they give authorization to are the only ones with the exclusive right to reproduce the work.
Don’t Give in to Fear – Listen to Your Heart!
It's very easy to give in to fear and most people I know do exactly that rather than taking a risk and listen to their heart. But you know what? Isn’t life too short to create a life based on fear? In my opinion, it is!
Writing with AI—Friend, or Foe?
A journal. It’s an odd thing to be grateful for. And yet, it is journals like William Bradford’s that share the secrets of life. Journals contain stories of lessons learned, results of roads less traveled, and conclusions of decisions that some would probably not make again.
Hermes Trismegistus
I speak of the lineage of the initiates of Mercury—those who have fashioned their skill by the sword and the pen, those who have acquainted themselves with the mind of God and have claimed that mind, who have come from a lineage that antedates myself. Truly, there is a lineage of those who have been called Hermes, the name being the title of an office. Thus, there is a descent of those whose craft has been to set forth in writing and in other forms of communication that which is Real, that which is unreal, that which is necessary information to the body politic round the world that they might know and understand the way to go….
There are those whom I myself have trained under my mantle as God Mercury. We who bear the shield and the armour of the Sun must therefore go up and down the nations of the earth and call out those who have the original communication skills, who practiced those skills in ancient times and on ancient continents and are willing to once again take the lead in the dissemination of the Truth and in exposing error. You must come forward! For the Truth must be made known….