My Writing Process
Let’s get down to the bare bones to start with: Prepare yourself and focus. Brainstorm and allow yourself to have bad ideas. Outline a thesis. Draft and edit. Cut the non-essential. Now, let’s expand on these ideas! Today is the...
A Personal History of Blogging
Obligated Preamble By the fourth day, you come to get into a sense of flow. There’s less pressure to put your best foot forward, and more pressure to just put *anything at all* forward in order to not derail. There’s...
Bonfire Night
It is very late on a Sunday night. I’m tired but I want to write. I want to write something good. I don’t want to merely churn out something formulaic that would satisfy the daily word counter. My expected goal...
Manipulation Tactics
Manipulation Tactics Years ago, these kind of cheap tactics did work in boosting web pages up Google’s search results. That isn’t the case anymore. When you search for something — anything —poorly designed or user-hostile websites never appear on page 1 of...