Tag: blogging
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Episode Story and Serialized Blogs : Segment
Once you’ve dissented against the norms in the blogging world, once you’ve clearly outlined how — exactly — you intend to help others, once you’ve focused on substance and earned the consent of readers who want you to contact them on a regular basis, once you’ve fermented your own style and substance until the blog is…
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Before You Open Blog : Intro
Confession: I’ve never thought of myself as a blogger. Many of you know my aversion to the word “blog,” my aversion to the false sense of immediacy created by that publish button, my desire for us all to reflect on language that has lasted and for us to spend less time spent gobbling up whatever…
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The Best Amateur Website Still Uses Canva
Featured Tool: Click here to access the main tool that the best amateur websites use. Awhile back when I went cruising around for advice on my site, I found the best amateur website still using the same service that all of these other amateur websites used. I hesitate to mention it because I don’t want to…
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Artists Thriving and Recovering Imagination
I’m busy helping people who have lost something magical and are desperate to find their way back: artists who have lost the art and non-artists who have tied their imaginations up with crappy plastic cuffs, shoved them into the basement of lost souls, and stuffed their ears to the whimpers.
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Blog: An Onomatopoeia for Vomit
You should love more than you hate, since this world’s filled with far more good than evil. That said, I hate few things, but one is this word “blog.” Oh, I get how it came about. People started creating new pages on a website back in the late eighties (post-Usenet) to create a log of…
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Thanks AND A CHALLENGE to International Guests
For the record, I’ve been humbled by how many of you from outside the U.S. interact on here: Which is why I scheduled this one to post at three in the morning my time, what Ray Bradbury called “no souls hour” in Something Wicked This Way Comes. No, I’m not awake–I’m probably dreaming of being an Animorph or…
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Liebster Blog Award
Yesterday, I stumbled onto my “About” page and found out that one of our own, thoughtofvg, gifted me the Liebster Blog Award. The award gets passed on to excelled bloggers with fewer than 200 followers to recognize their efforts to a larger audience. Like ‘thoghtofvg’ I too love the German language (as chanonyx might tell you)…