Tag: blogging
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Why writing is better than thinking
I’ve known a few psychology students and graduates but only one has said something that I still remember over a decade later. We were talking about the difference between thinking and writing and she pointed out that you write linearly. Linear order forces your writing into some kind of structure, but thinking, as Tony Buzan…
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Posting again, every day?
Last year this time I said I would post every day but I didn’t manage it. The thought of trying again has been gently prodding and poking at me for the last few weeks. There is something comforting about having to write. Having to find something to post and not needing to perfect an idea…
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The first step in writing
I once had a friend who was a writer. She was a brilliant writer; passionate and artistic. She carried with her a well worn book of Catcher in the Rye and in her notepad of literary scribblings, she had written out Cavafy’s The First Step. She wrote it out in the original Greek but I’ll…
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Finding my ‘why’ in order to find the ‘how’ in blogging
I scrolled through some old posts in my blog and they all felt so uninspiring. I was bored just looking at them, let alone reading them. I’ve definitely lost my mojo when it comes to blogging. I started up all inspired and enthusiastic nearly two years ago. I wanted to be a journalist and writing…
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It’s Monday, What Are You Reading?
“It’s Monday! What are you reading?” is a weekly event hosted by Sheila to share with others what you’ve read the past week and planning to read next. I saw this on Leeswamme’s Blog and since I find myself spending more time indoors lately I thought I would finally take part. Finished This week I…
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When can you manicure the lawn?
My dad has been a journalist for years. He has written for papers, run his own newspapers, magazine, radio programs and still writes when he has something to say. He is actively political and writes because that’s how he gets his message across. I studied politics, twice, but don’t always have something say. . On…
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Eating: yes. Blogging: sporadically. Critiquing: ?
Everyone Eats is a feature article, by Robert Sietsema, in the Jan / Feb 2010, Columbia Journalism Review. Its title continues with the pointedly honest appraisal: ‘but that doesn’t make you a restaurant critic’. Too true. The article provides a history of restaurant critics and the evolution of food reviews. Most importantly, Sietsema notes the…
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Using the Guardian as inspiration
A New York Times review of So Much For That by Lionel Shriver has the reviewer Leah Hager Cohen remark that the content in the novel about healthcare and the economy sounds more like editorial. She goes on to say that this might reflect Shriver’s journalistic status as a regular contributor to The Guardian of…
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