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Maintenance, our human flaw and a dreamed of plugin

by Bill Wren on August 26, 2011

икони на светци “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” – Kurt Vonnegut Today has driven home to me Kurt Vonnegut’s quote regarding maintenance. He is right. I’m guilty of that flaw too. Most of us are. We want to get on to the [...]

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You need poetry in your posts

by Bill Wren on August 24, 2011

What the world really needs is poetry in posts. Seriously. Keep in mind, when we use the word poetry we usually mean it in one of two ways. There is the very technical use when we are talking about something like a Shakespearean sonnet. But there is also the much more common use, in the [...]

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The editor steps in again

by Bill Wren on February 21, 2011

It’s been unusually quiet at Writelife. You can blame the editor for that. I have three posts unpublished because the editor has nixed them. Yes, the editor is me. The editor is a self-editor. What was wrong with the posts? They were cranky. Whiny. The tone was all bitchiness. The editor doesn’t like that. Not [...]

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My most popular posts in 2010

by Bill Wren on December 14, 2010

I took a look at my analytics to see what posts were the most popular here during the year. And I made a list of them. I find it interesting looking back at the past year to see that my focus on social media drooped a bit somewhere during the summer as my focus was [...]

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The awful truth about being brief

by Bill Wren on November 16, 2010

Being brief takes time. That is the awful truth. You would think brevity would take less time. It is, after all, brief. The reality, however, is that it takes more time; at least it does if you intend to write something worthwhile. Writing something long, like a blog post, is easy. At least it is [...]

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