Talker’s block. No one ever gets talker’s block.
No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down. Why then, is writer’s block endemic? The reason we don’t get talker’s block is that we’re in the habit of talking without a lot of concern for whether or not our inane blather will come back to haunt us. Talk is cheap. Talk is ephemeral. We talk poorly and then, eventually (or sometimes), we talk smart. Writer’s block isn’t hard to cure. Just write poorly. I believe that everyone should write in public. Do it every day. If you know you have to write something every single day, even a paragraph, you will improve your writing. The second best thing to zero is something better than bad. Write like you talk. (Update: Ira Glass agrees.) Blogging Archives.
Why Blogging Is The Best Business In The World. Managing Social Media. I have a confession to make.
I once spent three straight hours watching Instagram videos of useless “life hacks.” If I ever need to make a popcorn machine using only an X-ACTO knife and Coke cans, now I know how. I’ve also committed hours to following Twitter fights between Pakistani-American socialites who live in Houston, Texas. (I’m from Michigan. I don’t know anyone who lives in Texas.) Recently, I noticed I was doing a lot of following—and wondered what it would be like to get that time back. I quit all social media recently for a short—but highly productive—week and a half. Eventually, however, I felt out of touch with important news and conversations on Twitter. I started to wonder: Is it possible to delete social media for good, without risking potential career growth? “Social media is the ultimate format where a little bit is a great thing and a lot can be rather damaging,” Clark says.
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Long time, no talk :) It has been exactly 50 days since my last update; 127 days since I left for my adventure in the UK; 232 days since my first book came out. This year has been so different from what I expected, filled with decisions I didn’t know I would make. Yesterday, I woke up and deleted the 2,522-word post I had written for today.
In it, I shared all the details that went into making this decision. The “start something new” part of that sentence is what excites me most—and that’s why I’m moving towards it. I don’t want to be an expert. I want to wake up and enjoy my slow mornings, with coffee in one hand and my journal in the other. Whether you’re a new reader who signed up after reading The Year of Less, or you’ve been with me since the beginning, you all know it’s taken a long time for me to get to this place. So, it makes sense that a different person would want to work on different things. The blog is the final piece of the puzzle. Xx Cait. Why You Need To Start Your Own Website Today.
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Over the past couple of years I have had many dozens of incredibly negative comments on my posts which I have often marked as spam and not posted. After I do so, I often receive a follow-up comment from the same person saying ‘I’m sure you will censor this comment too,’ which I usually do. This is not because I don’t like people disagreeing with me, but it is because most of these people who are ‘disagreeing’ usually say things in their comments such as ‘shut the %#@! Up you terrorist’ or use different words to the same effect.
This phenomenon can easily be explained by the following graphic from the penny arcade: That said I really appreciate anyone who takes the time out to comment on my thoughts (regardless of whether they agree or disagree with me), and think that we should never underestimate the importance of truly legitimate dissent for the following 4 reasons: