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Here’s a five step approach to successful blogging list I discovered.
Decide WHAT the Post Should DO for You
How Can I Be Helpful?
The Actual Writing
Review The Last Few Weeks’ Posts
Repeat
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In one corner Billy Collins. In the other corner CA Conrad for a dispute over Emily Dickinson’s sexual preference. This should be a great fisticuff battle… except it’s taking place in the… read more »
Repeat after me: Branding is product, service and experience.* It’s not a wicked cool logo with drop shadow and PMS color key nor a catchy slogan. It’s simple and complicated and it’s why ad… read more »
“Reading aloud lets you craft great writing” writes James (of Men with Pens) how goes on to offer a few tips on writing including: We Have Voices in Our Heads Have You Lost Your Voice? … read more »
I’m reading an anthology of steampunk essays and fiction titled, well, Steampunk. It’s a sub-genre of science-, speculative-, historical-fiction. What’s intriguing to me is the hard-boiled… read more »
Here’s a few writing tips from the author of Til We Have Faces: 1. Read good books and avoid most magazines. 2. Write with the ear, not the eye. Make every sentence sound good. 3. Write only… read more »
It’s either a clever turn if a phrase, or not. ”I grew up in the Bible Belt…” the anonymous contribution to The Sun’s Readers Write section begins and concludes that “…it was better to be an honest… read more »
Organic garden — the last weekend in June And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) … read more »
James Longenbach presented a lecture titled “The Excess of Poetry” at the Warren Wilson College MFA program for writers this morning. Here’s a few of the notes I wrote: The act of writing is… read more »
GermanHeit is an excellent resource for those interested in learning to read German (or learn in better) or those desiring to know more about life in contemporary Germany. Recently, GermanHeit… read more »
Czeslaw Milosz’s birthday is today. Just in case you wanted to know.
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human… read more »
The Warren Wilson College MFA program for writers provides free readings and lectures to the public. The first reading begins tomorrow night. The reading schedule is posted on their web site… read more »
The urban garden as it looks in early June; squash and peas begin flowering. Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener’s work is done upon his… read more »
I can’t complain and all my bills have been paid. Thank you so much for all the wonderful…
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This weekend, I visited the 90s through the portal of my compact disc collection and… read more »
Whoever had the thought to render bear fat and burn it in a lamp was touched a bit, or bored, or left alone to ponder light too long in some dank cabin: bear fat pops and stinks and brings no cheer to our condition. My brother Squire would burn such lamps to read the Scriptures: eyelids…
ilovereadingandwriting:
About a week or so ago I got the idea of having writers who follow me write essays about a writer that they love. I shared this idea with another blogger, redheadbouquet, and she really liked the idea. So I am putting out the call to anybody who might like to participate. Choose a writer that you…
About a week or so ago I got the idea of having writers who follow me write essays about a writer that they love. I shared this idea with another blogger, redheadbouquet, and she really liked the idea. So I am putting out the call to anybody who might like to participate. Choose a writer that you…
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brocatus:
1. The web is transitioning from mere interactivity to a more dynamic, real-time web where read-write functions are heading towards balanced synchronicity. The real-time web, as I have argued in the past, is the next logical step in the Internet’s evolution.
2. The complete disaggregation of the web in parallel with the slow decline of the destination web.
3. More and more people are publishing more and more “social objects” and sharing them online. That data deluge is creating a new kind of search opportunity.
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1. The web is transitioning from mere interactivity to a more dynamic, real-time web where read-write functions are heading towards balanced synchronicity. The real-time web, as I have argued in the past, is the next logical step in the Internet’s evolution. 2. The complete disaggregation of the web in parallel with the slow decline of the destination web. 3. More and more people are publishing more and more “social objects” and sharing them online. That data deluge is creating a new kind of search opportunity.(via zehnuhr)
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