Looking back at 2023 is for me a moment of both gratitude and reflection – gratitude for the given ability (tawfiq) to do small things and reflection on the craziness in the world and the things that can still be done. We say al-hamdulillah (all praise is due to God) for the tawfiq, among others, to: * Write and publish a book (FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR MUSLIM TEENS: 12 SHORT STORIES OF EMPOWERMENT, free sample copy: ). * Edit and publish
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Welcome aboard Flight BW14 with service of the Third Month of Book Writing Evaluation! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6:
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Welcome aboard Flight BW13 with service of the Third Month of Book Writing! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6: #3RD
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At the end of the first quarter, I mentioned the following as my targets for the 2nd Quarter (April-June 2022) as a self-published author and translator: 1. To distribute at least 30 written and translation books online and offline (3 more titles compared to the previous quarter), 2. To locally publish at least 3 more books (compared to only 1 title during the previous quarter), and 3. To finish the current book project and publish it. Let’s see what actually
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Welcome aboard Flight BW12 with service of the Second Month of Book Writing Evaluation! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6:
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Welcome aboard Flight BW11 with service of the 7th Week of Book Writing! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6: #3RD
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Welcome aboard Flight BW8 with service of First Month of Book Writing Evaluation! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6: #3RD
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As soon as I embarked on my current book writing – HOW TO SHARI’AH-COMPLIANTLY INVEST IN THE PHILIPPINE STOCK MARKET – on the first day of March, I had already mentioned that it will be resumed in May and to be finished in June, insha’ Allah (https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal). Although ideally, writing should be done continuously without any interruption, I had no option because, firstly, this year’s Ramadan fell mostly in the month of April, and I have an ongoing long-term translation
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Welcome aboard Flight BW7 with service of the Fourth Week of Book Writing! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING Post #6: #3RD
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Welcome aboard Flight BW6 with service of the Third Week of Book Writing! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS Post #5: 1ST AND 2ND WEEK OF WRITING AS DRAFTING In my previous
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Welcome aboard Flight BW5 with service from Brainstorming to the Second Week of Book Writing! If you haven’t read them yet, these are the links to the earlier posts in this series of my blog on book writing: Post #1: WHY I’M WRITING THE BOOK https://muslimandmoney.com/why-im-currently-writing-a-book-about-shariah-compliant-investing-in-the-stock-market Post #2: INTRODUCING ELZISTYLE BOOK WRITING CLUB https://www.elzistyle.com/introducing-elzistyle-book-writing-club Post #3: BOOK WRITING GOAL CLARIFICATION https://www.elzistyle.com/clarify-your-book-writing-goal Post #4: MY WORK ETHICS AND PRODUCTIVITY TIPS In my previous post, I promised to share with you the
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As mentioned during the Virtual Launch of my recently published book, ‘MBAYUKA TANU! MAGUINDANAON BAYUK TRANSCRIPTION, TRANSLATION, AND ANNOTATION, one of the special offers and giveaways for the early-bird readers is FREE membership to the ElziStyle Book Writing Club. (The Virtual Launch can be watched here: https://youtu.be/qB6Aqv-D_iE) This FREE club membership is an additional perk introduced for the first time to the ever-growing ElziStyle Books Family. By becoming a club member, you will have behind-the-scenes access to my book writing
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