Category: Living Advice

Here is a list of posts in the Living Advice' category.

Thoughts on AI

👤 Smartryk Foster 📖 4th February, 2026 📚 Studying, Living Advice, Writing Advice

I was browsing through the internet lately and came across some screenshots from Moltbook.com, a social network designed for AI, by AI (or that's what it says in the news), and that got me thinking. According to an article by The Guardian, humans can tell AI agents directly what to post...

How to Declare Amazon Royalties on a Canadian Tax Return

👤 Smartryk Foster 📖 23rd April, 2020. Edited: 6th April, 2025 📚 Living Advice

(Edit: Someone asked 'Do I have to file a U.S. tax return if I'm a Canadian author or publisher who sells books through KPD (Kindle Direct Publishing)?' And the answer to that is, 'Maybe?' KDP has a page that gives more information about that. The IRS (Internal Revenue Service)...

How Products are Sold

👤 Smartryk Foster 📖 7th July, 2017. Edited: 2nd April, 2025 📚 Living Advice, Writing Advice

As I mentioned earlier, I wanted to know how artistic industries make money because I thought that lessons from one artistic industry could be applied to another. This is what I found. Most artists don’t earn a livable wage by selling artwork to consumers. But that’s were it gets interesting...

Start Here

👤 Smartryk Foster 📖 20th April, 2017. Edited: 1st April, 2025 📚 Acting Advice, Bible Study, Living Advice, News, Studying, Writing Advice

Hello and Welcome to the Smartryk Foster Publications website! ^^ Do you want to know how to write a story from scratch? Would you like to learn what stories are made of and how they work? Then you’ve come to the right place! This website focuses on teaching the building blocks...

How to be Decisive

👤 Smartryk Foster 📖 21st March, 2017. Edited: 31st March, 2025 📚 Acting Advice, Living Advice, Writing Advice

This article was inspired by Taeyeon (Edit: Link replaced.) of Girls’ Generation (Edit: Link replaced.). In 2011, Taeyeon was on an episode of ‘Big Brothers’ with fellow Girls’ Generation members Yuri (you may remember her from a previous blog post), Tiffany (Edit: Link replaced.) and Seohyun (Edit: Link replaced.). During that episode...