Full screen text editor is probably the best thing I’ve discovered since I started blogging.
When I open up my full screen text editor, my creativity quadruples and ideas seem to flow from every inch of my brain.
A few days ago, Maki wrote about a full screen text editor called Dark Room and explained how it [...]
Audience, audience, audience. Everyone who has something to say wants audience. So few ears and so many voices. It looks almost impossible to find people who can give you what you desire most: their attention.
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. Matthew Arnold
I keep six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew; Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling
Write what you want to read. The person you [...]
Linkbait is such a suspicious word. At first, it appears to be some sort of fraudulent technique to get links from other webmasters, but on closer scrutiny, it turns out that linkbait is just another name of quality content that is so cool that people feel obliged to link to it.
Any blog, on today’s web, [...]
Recently, I’ve been getting emails from would-be bloggers who are fascinated by blogging, but don’t know where to start. Well, I don’t blame them. Even though there are many blogs that teach blogging, and they have guides to get the new bloggers started, they usually forget that a person who is not yet committed to [...]
Why do blogs have similar layouts, similar content, and similar approach to writing?
Bloggers claim to be an innovative and creative lot, but honestly, I currently don’t see many bloggers challenging the blogging traditions. When I visit blogs in a particular niche, I get the impression that I am reading the same blog over and over. [...]
Know your whys and hows?
If your blog posts take any amount of thinking to complete, you must do the thinking before you write. This brief ensures that you don’t miss any important points, and that you actually know your subject matter before you can explain it to your readers.
By putting some time aside to answer [...]