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Finding Time To Write #iamwriter

At certain points in my life I tend to take long breaks from writing as it generally takes a good deal of time for me to get into the mood to pen something, anything, after a long day of work. I understand how you feel: the whole week seems to be filled with work; after [...]

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Do You Want To Write Full-Time? #iamwriter

I was reading a blog post today about how you’ll never become a full-time writer and even though I disagree, I find myself not enjoying the idea of needing to force myself to write hours on end in order to make a paycheck. For me writing is a hobby, it is something that I enjoy [...]

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Reading Brings Better Writing #iamreader #iamwriter #iampoet

In a lame attempt to actually promote my my lifelong dream of a project I have decided to write a few blog posts on how to become a better writer. I am not going to claim that I am an authority on writing, but somes kills that I have acquired over a very long career [...]

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My Issue With WordPress and Blogging

I have been using WordPress for many years now. I firmly believe that there is no better software available, free or paid, for rolling your own blog. The guys over at Automattic are an amazing bunch of people for giving away free software that might otherwise cost thousands of dollars. But with all of that [...]

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Twitter Competing With Themselves

The Twitter service is agnostic to your special characters that we use as annotations to #topics and @people. The community came up with these “features” as a way to facilitate conversation on a service that was meant to broadcast our daily meanderings. One of the main reasons why Twitter took off was its easy to use, well [...]

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Envy The Brainsick

There are times that I wish I could be addicted to something. While hanging out with the local chumps I hear the war stories of people that were an addict. There is nothing better than listening to someone recount an experience that led them through the streets of Philadelphia on a path of destruction to [...]

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Beating Children Should Not Be Incognito

When living in an apartment it has generally been an acceptable practice to take out the garbage on time, pay the electric and gas bills on time, and generally be a good neighbor to all of your fellow homosapiens. Another general practice is to make sure that the children that you have bore both in [...]

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