Category: Writing
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Just Writing Because I Haven’t in a While
The point of this blog post is simply to write something and post it. I haven’t written anything in a while and I’m bothered about it. My ideas haven’t been coming together.
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The words aren’t…I want to write
I just can’t seem to get something written down that reads the way I’m thinking. I’m having a hard time figuring out what it is that I want to say. The words just aren’t coming together, that is after I manage to find them.
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Pencils break
Nothing’s perfect.
Perfection is the acceptance of flaws.
The mechanical pencil, a Pentel Wow!, that I’ve been carrying around in my front-left pocket for the last seven-or-so years broke on Wednesday morning. I pushed down on the button at the top, expecting the lead sleeve to extend, and prepared my right thumb for a second push to extend the lead past the end of the sleeve. Instead, the entire front end flew off. The exposed lead stayed attached to the barrel.
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Restarting Letters’ Lounge
In early 2008, I was sitting in a bar called Vicious Circle. I was alone like I was a lot in bars back then. I also used to carry a messenger bag with me that had a notebook, pens, and a book in it. I never left home without that bag. Some people had blankets when they were children, I have a notebook and pen when I was in adulthood.
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Setting Aside the “Writing TripTik”
Have you heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect? It’s when someone overestimates their ability to perform a task because of ignorance. It’s not being able to accurately measure how good you are at something because you don’t know enough about that thing.
I’m halfway through a writing course.
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Three ways to stay motivated as a blogger with a small readership
I’ve kept a blog since 2008. For the last twelve-or-so years, I’ve been writing inconsistently and haven’t met with much “success” as a blogger. I write mostly personal stories and share my ideas on various things. In many ways, my blog has been and is a public diary.
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300 blog posts in 2021?
I was so bored yesterday that even the idea of going to sleep wasn’t interesting. So, instead, I opened my journal, took out one of my favourite pens, and started writing about how bored I was. I like to burn a candle when writing so I did that, too.
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You Should Get a Markdown Editor
If you’ve been thinking about switching over to a markdown editor, you should.
It took me a while to finally decide to switch over. I was holding on to Microsoft Word, believing that it was working well for me, and, for the most part, it was. When I discovered “focus mode,” I thought that my writing experience was changed forever. It was for a short while, but it didn’t stick.
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