Brennan's Old Blog

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. -Jack Layton

 

Making Good Work to Get Paid

Currency, Money, before Euro. | Source Yes, You’ll Have to Pay to Read This — And Here’s Why. Trying to understand why you should make people pay to read what you create is about letting people pay you to fail, DRY writing, time frugality,...

Bonfire Night

Source Minor Thoughts & Trying to Figure Everything Out 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...

A Personal History of Blogging

Desk Auditorium | Source Trying to Understand the Democracy of the Internet 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...

My Writing Process

Antique Blank | Source Five Steps to Go From Brainstorming to Completed Work 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....