I hadn’t realized it before, but I have a pretty solid writing routine which oddly enough involves–writing. How many times have you sat down to your computer or a blank piece of paper and tried to force yourself to write a proposal, blog post, article, book and just got absolutely nowhere? Staring at a blank screen, a blinking cursor and just not knowing where to start. If you’re anything like me, or most people for that matter, it’s probably happened a lot.
This morning I started my routine to hammer out [...]
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by Tris Hussey on December 19, 2009 · 4 comments
in About the book, Cool tools, Create Your Own Blog, Daddy Wears Slippers to Work, Featured, Mind Mapping, Teaching, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Using WordPress
Remember those days in high school when you were learning how to write term papers? My very well-meaning teachers tried to get us to use notecards and create outlines, anything to help us write better organized papers with the correct citation in the bibliography.
And I hated and chafed at every, single moment of it. While having notecards is actually a good organizational tool, my nascent writer’s brain couldn’t latch on to them as anything more than a royal pain. Even then, and probably more so than now, my chaotic, in-the-data-cloud [...]
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I’m sure you’ve heard the expression “fake it til you make it”, meaning that if you’re not happy pretend you are happy until you feel that way…or a myriad other examples. Sometimes, you know, writing is like that. I’ve been stumped on what to write about here for a couple days.
Sure, there has been a lot of news going on. I could have talked about the fake Windows Black Screen of Death fiasco, or Chrome for Mac Beta, or … just about anything. However I feel like I owe you, [...]
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What does your workspace look like? No, not the color or how many file cabinets you have, but how is your laptop or monitor positioned? What does your neck feel like at the end of the day? How about your arms, wrists, fingers? Having had my own brushes with carpal tunnel problems, not to mention a long standing back injury, I am always trying to find newer and better ways to layout my workspace.
Lifehacker has some simple (and inexpensive) ideas for getting your workspace up to snuff. Your first step [...]
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This is an excerpt from “Chapter 3: Writing & Creating a conversation”, that I’m using as an example for the book on writing your first post…
So your first post. The “Hello world, here I am. Time to listen up” statement.
Uh huh.
Right.
Chances are your first post will suck. Oh yeah, pretty much guaranteed, you’re going to look at it in month or so and die a little inside. You’ll want to delete it. Expunge this dreck from the world.
Don’t.
Your first post is something of a birthday statement. It’s what you’re going [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
