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400th Blog Post AND A GIVEAWAY!
Cue the confetti, pop the champagne: It’s my 400th blog post!! And it comes with a SPECIAL GIVEAWAY!! For those of you keeping track, I just celebrated my fourth blog-aversary. That means I’ve written pretty close to 100 blog posts a year, or one every 3.5 days. A blog post starts with an idea, which always comes […]
4th Anniversary Blog Post: The Juicy Stuff
I thought I’d spend my anniversary writing about things I don’t typically share on this blog. The “juicy stuff,” if you will, about my life. Let’s start with the serious stuff: My politics. I rarely write about politics online because there’s nothing more divisive to a community than political opinion, and I don’t want to encourage that. But […]
The First Sentence Always Sucks
The first sentence sucks. Sometimes you find one that’s brilliant, and you write it down with excitement… but then you realize you have no idea what comes next. (Many a blog post has been abandoned for that reason.) More often, you have an idea for a piece and maybe a rough thesis statement, but you don’t […]
The Time Is Write Now
I have been many different kinds of writers. I have been a joyous writer. A pensive writer. A prolific one, a stagnating one. I have written inspired things, and I’ve written idiotic things. I have been a successful writer and a rejected writer. I have been a humbled writer, a proud writer. Today, I am a struggling […]
I Finally Answer The Blogging Question
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” –Confucius Dear Readers, Since this blog’s inception, I’ve struggled to define its purpose. I’ve struggled to answer the following questions: Why am I blogging? Who am I writing for? What do I want to write? The best I’ve come up with is a […]