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Continue reading →: My Top 5 Commenters of 2013
One of the reasons blogging feels so rewarding is because I know there are real people out there who are reading me. They leave their footprints behind on my page in many ways for which I am grateful.
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Continue reading →: Do bloggers have choices?
Over the last year and a half, my blogging dilemmas have been many. I have, I’m afraid, been able to reduce these dilemmas into neat little binaries quite without satisfactory answers.
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Continue reading →: Social Media and Sharing RealityI was walking around West Village yesterday when I turned a corner. It was not as cold as when the polar vortex had assailed us last week. Yet it wasn’t as sunny as the day before here in Manhattan. In fact, it was pretty foggy even for a winter’s day.…
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Continue reading →: Two posts I liked this week
Sometime ago I wrote a post on Bottledworder called Three reasons I like to read not so well known blogs. In it I explain why I sometimes prefer obscure writers to already established ones.
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Continue reading →: Five Ways to Think Writing Differently Online
So what did I learn through months of producing great, good, mediocre and fairy bad writing online? How has the experience been different from producing vast quantities of writing meant to be printed off the printer? How has the experience of writing online been different from traditional writing?
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Continue reading →: Is writing work?
What is work? Is writing work? If so, when, or at what point do you earn the right to call yourself a writer?
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Continue reading →: Why I Blog–Article
This is a great article on blogging by Andrew Sullivan I chanced upon yesterday.
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Continue reading →: Love, Romance and Escape
If you happen to watch TV at home during the holiday season, you will notice that along with festive tunes, shades of red and green, bells, parties, food, mall sales and lights, your thoughts will turn to another seasonal item on display in our culture: the romance fantasy.
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Continue reading →: A quiet walk on New Year’s eve
Originally posted on bottledworder: Every New Year’s eve seems like the brink of something momentous. As though we are suddenly standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon looking into a vast uncharted space where anything can happen. A second chance at things left behind in the old year. A…
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Continue reading →: Writing in the holidays
There’s this plot I’ve been mulling over for almost half the year. Thank God the holidays are round the corner. I’ll put it down in writing. There’s this draft that needs a complete re-do. When? The holidays, of course. There’s a whole bunch of scraps of ideas scattered all over…
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Continue reading →: Central Park and Columbus Circle this weekIt is about 0° Centigrade/32° Fahrenheit. Since we are at a loose end we decide to take a stroll in Central Park. It’s the kind of harsh, winter day when the brightness of the sun belies the ferocity of the cold.
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Continue reading →: Writing description
You close your eyes and try to remember the first snow this season as it fell softly on your way to work. You relive the memory of your train ride from Calcutta to Kharagpur where you met the woman who shared aloo parathas with you. You feel the taste of…
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Continue reading →: Life is in the details
This morning was the first real snow of the season in Jersey City. At 8 am, it looked formidable outside with little lines of white zipping across the air and a fine, white dust accumulated on the shrubs and railings which melted on the concrete. It wasn’t easy to set…
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