Saturday, November 20, 2004
This Site Doesn't Deserve My Best Work
I am better than this (FLESHED OUT POST). I deserve more. On some level all that I said above is true. Now, now before you jump on me for my arrogance, hear me out. How often do you hear people say such things? And this: "It's only a crappy website". If you start out looking down on people at what...
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Friday, November 19, 2004
How To Make Your Writing Taut, Trim And Terrific
Forgive the cliche. Taut-ology - saying the same thing in different ways, repeating yourself using alternative phrases - you get the picture, see where I'm heading with this, vous comprenez, er...understand me? Outrageous tautology is not rampant here but many of us have a tendency to say something...
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Reasons Not To Be A Porn Star
So what about this idea? My previous post touched on the idea of drawing on your day job for inspiration. If RachelAnna reads me here is a solution. She could write a novel about life in the modeling industry embellishing it - with catfights, tricks of the trade, and stacking it with designer names...
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Has The Time Come For A Doctor Of Blogging?
An idea ahead of its time perhaps. I don't mean a medical doctor or a shrink although think about it here.. there are possibilities. I mean a doctorate. I attended a symposium this week which discussed the growing community of artists (which takes in writers, visual artists, performing artists,...
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Thursday, November 18, 2004
Contortions Will Bend You Out Of Shape
I love it when other bloggers take care of ideas I was thinking about. David1Spirit wrote today about bloggers who post to say they have nothing to write. He has summmed it up for me. There is nothing I need to add. This leaves my mind open. No preconceptions, no pressure. There is a blank page but...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Why Push Out Crap When You Could Be WRITING?
Values are awry in this funny gated community but then they are in the wider world too. I often scratch my head when I read the local paper and I wonder why they don't understand that it takes no more resources to produce good work as it does to produce what they do now. Likewise, values can't be...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004
What Really Makes Bloggers Click?
What is the connection between this blogger and that blogger? I can see it - a shared philosophy; a knowing laugh; the bonds of similar experiences; guiding lights; people who give a damn; great storytellers; desire; the young sage; old minds with the wisdom of curiosity; folks who are up for new...
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Monday, November 15, 2004
Advance Copy Of Book Arrives In The Mail
I was nervous when I opened it and leafed through it at least four times unable to find my piece. Eventually I remembered that thing called an index. There was my name. I opened to a left-hand page in the middle of the book. How would it look? It looked OK. Now the big test - how does it read? So...
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Sunday, November 14, 2004
Blogit Friends Can Be Your WORST Critics
Encouragement goes a long way but people who have had the most influence on me have offered criticism. Sometimes that criticism was not delivered with any great charm or courtesy and I have had to search long and hard for the constructive elements. Occasionally criticism has been directed at me...
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My Early Posts Stink But Are They Any Better Now?
I had a silly idea to re-run a post (unaltered) from a year ago just to see if anyone spotted the change in my writing style, content and quality. I haven't because I can see a difference. The worst aspect of the posts from a year ago is the content. At that time I was near to taking the No.1 spot...
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