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Attention Spam

June 8, 2010

My attention span is perfectly capable, but you’re spamming it. The Internet is not responsible for the lack of attention span. The Internet is responsible for rewarding navel-gazing and self-absorbed prose which no one can read or pay attention to. The writers are not doing a good job charming the audience.

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Like a Baby in a Topless Bar

June 7, 2010

Could I do away with reading big news sites and stick to opinion sites and blogs? Would I become a biased reader? Paying more attention to the things that people choose to respond to could be a huge time saver. Do I really need to know everything else? Is following the Twitter streams of big news sites enough to keep me well informed?

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Stop Trying to Pick Lint from Your Bellybutton

June 2, 2010

Write to learn about yourself and other things, not because you want to thought-vomit all over your blog. Listen: we all do it! Of course, we’re all navel-gazers to a certain degree because we’re all our own best reference points. The world DOES indeed revolve around us. But the center of gravity shouldn’t show in your published blog post.

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When You Can’t Please Everyone, Please Yourself

May 17, 2010

The Internet can make you believe that you have a potentially limitless readership, but that concept is simply a false lure that can mess with your ability to produce quality work. Some people succumb to greed, others to lust; don’t be the one who breaks under the weight of wanting to be an Internet celebrity.

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How to Brainstorm a Concept for a Blog

April 28, 2010

Choosing a blog concept is difficult because your decision sets the stage for the future of your blog. You don’t want to limit yourself by being too specific, but you should try to create and maintain a niche that will help you build an audience of interested readers. The first post will be the most difficult post.

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Constructive Criticism > Combative Commenters

April 27, 2010

The web has so much potential to be a place where educated, well-intentioned people share constructive criticism with one another. When someone shares an idea or a piece of writing, that person could ask for and access feedback from hundreds of thousands of readers! We could establish mutually-beneficial relationships!

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Shades of Electronic Publication

April 14, 2010

I wonder how often literary magazines and publishing companies have to tackle this issue. I think a social-media savvy publisher should encourage writers to share work on their blogs because blogging is a grassroots marketing tool, a way to get readers interested. If the writing is good, the readers will buy the books, no matter what.

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Zen and the Art of Blogging

March 19, 2010

Creative writing demands a different frame of mind than article writing, research paper drafting, and blogging do. But that doesn’t mean someone who does one can’t do the other! The place where you start is just a place to start, and then you work out from that point. The process is not necessarily linear.

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