384 days ago I wrote my first morning pages on 750words.com Since then I have: written 315,026 words (or about 7 novels) spent 12 minutes on every day’s words written an average of 820 words a day mentioned sex 408 times mentioned tea 503 times used 1402 curse words Writing the words every day is awesome. It’s [...]
Blogspire is a great suggestion tool – go sign up – but when a topic doesn’t come from within the process to coming up with a post is a lot more complicated. Even when the idea is yours, there is a lot that goes into coming up with a decent post. Let me describe the two ways [...]
There is a stack of books on my desk waiting to be read. They’re not bad books. Some are considered the height of classical literature, some are downright useful. And yet, they linger, waiting for months upon months, some for years. I’ll get to them … eventually. I used to be a voracious reader, going [...]
Yesterday someone mentioned on twitter that it’s amazing how I write a blogpost every day, especially considering the quality of my posts. Leaving aside for a moment considerations that this might have been an epic case of sarcasm … writing a post every day isn’t that difficult anyway. When you think about it, everyone probably [...]
Knowing how many readers a blog gets is pretty important for any blog writer. We like to pretend it doesn’t even matter, put on a face of “Oh well, I’m just writing this for myself, you know, to get the word out, I don’t really care if anyone reads it” What a bunch of hipsters! [...]
Beginning of May I came across a pretty interesting website, 75owords.com. The general idea of the website is that you write 750 words every day. About anything. Unedited. Unhindered. Completely free. Just write about whatever comes to mind in whichever way it decides to come. When you’re done you simply tuck it away somewhere never [...]
Image by bootload via Flickr It is now 04:42 and it’s about time I head off to bed since Wednesdays do in fact still exist, I don’t know whose bright idea this was, but they had it and now we have it. Yesterday I complained about falling asleep too early to do any serious amount [...]
