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Continue reading →: On a reader-friendly arrangement of blog posts
OR On blog content arrangement Part 2 We talked about difficulties of navigating blogs without proper cues yesterday in Part 1. Let’s think about a few principles of arrangement of posts on the page today. On a reader-friendly arrangement of posts So how can we arrange content on our blog…
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Continue reading →: Listing the Monsters of Ink
Nothing kills creativity like the word list. So it’s counterintuitive to write a post about creativity in an itemized list.
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Continue reading →: Dinner and a movie–alone!
I’m reminded of an old post called “Dinner and a movie-alone!” just because it’s Friday! Enjoy!
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Continue reading →: Pictures and desires
I have often wondered why people put up pictures on their walls. Especially scenery. What it is that makes them desire a bit of the outside world onto this vertical surface that signifies a boundary, a separation of the house from the very world that the picture represents?
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Continue reading →: Dusk on a Friday
From where I sit on my couch, I can see a vast expanse of the river. But when it’s evening, like now, the lights start dimming in the distance and the darkness closes in slowly, smothering the sunny day that is a thing of the past now. It dawns on…
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Continue reading →: Five observations on writing
Food is fun but this post is about writing. But I’m okay with calling it Cheesy Nuggets of Wisdom about Writing from Bottledworder if that makes us feel hungry for words:
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Continue reading →: Writer
Came upon this great meme last week and thought I’d share the sheer genius here.
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Continue reading →: Memory’s oasesWhen we were six or seven, we used to live in an oasis in the heart of Calcutta. Everywhere else the city was teeming with people, concrete, dust, dirt, cars, buses and street hawkers–an overload to the senses. Yet, in the midst of it all was our oasis of a…
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Continue reading →: Secrets of popular writers
Why are some writers popular while others aren’t? A very difficult question with a myriad different answers I’m sure. Merit, context, luck, things outside of the writer’s control. Yes. But on the whole, popular writing is popular because it’s smart. Admittedly, a lot of smart writing never gets popular (or…
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Continue reading →: In defense of purposeless writing
I have been wondering, like many a scattered soul on the blogosphere, about what it might mean to write aimlessly. By aimlessly I mean to write without a specific purpose such as to sell, to build a resume, to add to a larger work, or to vent. When I browse…
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Continue reading →: Is life like a book?
Life’s too short but so’s a good book. How incredibly short life seems the more you live it! And how incredibly long the present seems the less you’re living it up! Time flies when you’re alive and time moves slowly when life is dull. But the tapestry of life unfolds…
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Continue reading →: When clothes travel
The new clothes I brought over from India last week, like many of the other times I travelled, are sitting on a shelf, carefully folded. So did my embroidered sandals sit in their boxes for the entire previous year from when I brought them over from a Kolhapuri emporium. I…
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