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This post is a part of 20SB’s Looking Back Blog Carnival, and Ben & Jerry’s is awarding free ice cream to lucky bloggers and readers! Too Much of a Good Thing First posted October 15, 2003 I’ve been crying, she says. She admits it so easily. How is it that I can figure out you’re…

This is an uncomfortable metaphor about blogging.

I am not programming this myself, there are smarter people to do it.

How can I write a long blog post when I can’t even read one.

I dug up the About page from Indie Bloggers to show to you.

I’m down with the “media” part of social media. But maybe not the “social” part.

Why I probably shouldn’t be in charge of an Indie Bloggers clone.

Gott in Himmel, I have six drafts waiting for me in WordPress. One day I’ll probably get fed up and delete them all. I’m not the kind of boy that keeps drafts around because it encourages a certain level of perfectionism and that is what completely kills my blogging. I want more quantity here and…

An excerpt from If— by Rudyard Kipling One day in high school, our English teacher started quoting some of this poem and we all stared at her blankly. The next day, she had printed off copies for the class and we sat there as she read it aloud melodramatically. This poem was not part of…

On and off for the past six months, I’ve been tossing about the idea of peeling back the layers of abstraction, to really write what I know. I hadn’t come across the “write what you know” dictum until Studds explained it to me one day during the first year of university. I saw it as…

Gather round, kids, and indulge me while I recall this story. In August 2005, I was reading a friend’s blog and he was getting comments from this guy called Johnny*. Weird comments that talked about the emotions evoked by the writing and little tidbits of happy constructive criticism. To be honest, I can’t really remember…

Looking at the rate of my posting, it seems I still have not had my blogosoup. There are interesting stories out there in the blogging community though, stories that deal with this elusive soup in ways that cause me to strain the metaphor. I’m just going to ramble some more until a good post finally…

Ok, so it’s lame but today is January 7 and this is my blog so I’m going to post my New Year’s resolutions. I already did this earlier but these ones are more thought-out and funnier. If you don’t like it then you can go eat a can of worms. I’m going to be very…

Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer Beta: Click to enlarge image. Installed the beta of Microsoft Windows Live Writer, gave it my blog URL, username and password and it automagically downloaded my theme. Very impressive. I recommend this to anyone who blogs but doesn’t like the technical stuff. Good things: Posts look exactly like they should Much…

“Yeah, it makes me want to start writing again.” “You should. I enjoyed reading.” That’s all the permission I need. Today’s task: five stories about writer’s block. I’ll break it up with some semi-related photos (all licensed under Creative Commons). mirrors by Jake Shears One “How old are you?” The mirror doesn’t reply. Sometimes, when…

I feel like I’ve been cheating my blog lately. For one thing, I keep starting all my blog posts with one-sentence paragraphs as if it’s some shocking confession. I am starting to become full of myself. Who the hell is so interested in my thoughts that they would be put on the edge of their…

Seriously, I don’t know why you all start blogs that you are never going to keep anyway. Instead, you should sign up for Twitter and then add me to your friends list. For those of you that don’t keep up with the internet’s social technology, Twitter condenses the world of blogging into the size of…

Today I walked into Borders and paid A$22.00 for a notepad. I know; dumb. I think I have a latent stationary fetish It’s a squared reporter notebook Moleskine and, gun to my head, the only reason I bought it was to let off some steam about the annoying to-and-fro that I’ve been getting from the…

Sorry guys and gals, I’m throwing in the towel on NaNoWriMo. It’s not working out. I got to 2500 words of crap and then conked out. Nothing to motivate me to keep writing. I lost enthusiasm for the story. 2500 words? :( The lesson here? Don’t write about something you don’t really want to write…

I have officially started Nanowrimo 2006. The theme this year is short chapters. People love short chapters because they’re sort of blog-esque in the fact that it makes things small and digestable (like M&M’s!). Here is the first chapter I have written. Rough Draft 01 Let me tell you about a book I’m writing. Guy…