Writing & Blogging
Thoughts on writing and blogging.
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Sometimes when I sit down to write, I open my Web browser intending to find the source of a quote or factoid I think I remember. Sometimes I am successful. Sometimes I fail. And sometimes I get completely taken away and end up watching old music videos on YouTube. My brain turns off and I
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Sometimes it is not a matter of what is said (or being the first to say it) but a matter not being the only one saying it. I began blogging with the hope that it would reacquaint me with writing. I had taken a long hiatus – Almost 10 years! – from writing, frustrated with
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Last year I was given the opportunity to address an audience of fourth through twelfth graders at an awards ceremony. The speech I gave was not how I imagined it. While I knew what I wanted to say, armed with only an outline, I rambled and eventually my audience lost sight of my point.
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“Bloggers are not writers,” Rebecca states in reaction to Jaron’s assertion, “blogging is not writing.” But his words are taken out of context. He’s talking about journalistic writing – Modes of recording observable, quantifiable facts – retraceable truths. Bloggers can be writers. Bloggers can imagine (and thus create) something “meant to last” or “legacies that
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[This is the speech I wanted to give to a group of grade 4 – 12 students but didn’t because I thought an outline would suffice.] How many of you have heard of Twitter? Who can explain what Twitter is? Do you know what it’s called when you post on Twitter? Now, can anyone tell
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I finally got around to editing the video my wife shot at the reading I was a part of in January. I read four poems and a piece from the novel I am “working” on. It was not my best performance but it was the best audience and situation for me to reacquaint myself with
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I’m going to be reading with friends I lost touch with almost a decade ago.
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A friend and I have been engaged in an ongoing sometimes heated but always interesting debate about saying, No, in our professional lives and in our personal lives. The topic had become so engaging that I wrote a post about it on this blog. It mentioned our ongoing debate but did not touch upon it
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