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What the Internet has done for writing

Found this while browsing through the popular writing-related links on social bookmarking site Delicious. I can’t help but get a little annoyed at the $2-blog-writing schemes, SEO “content” farms, and a general deterioration of originality, voice, and real content that passes for so-called writing online.
Now I have an image to conjure whenever this black mood [...]

Posted 06 August 2008 † gordon § Links § Rants § Writing § Writing craft § Writing tech ‡ Comments (0)

Full of Artless Jealousy

Signal vs. Noise, one of the blogs I read on technology, productivity, and creativity, posted an article recently about being motivated in a constructive and positive way by jealousy. “Productive jealousy,” is an interesting theory, but I wonder if it’s really that common in practice.
Like the article’s author, I have always been plagued with a [...]

Posted 20 May 2008 † gordon § Authors § Blogging § Reading § Writing ‡ Comments (6)

Writing About Music for Writing

My friend Jeff has been talking about music, and particularly music while writing. Despite the fact that he brought up the scourge of John Denver, I felt compelled to respond.
Truth be told, I haven’t been listening to much music lately.
What? A black guy not espousing the joys of music to write to? What of the [...]

Posted 21 March 2008 † gordon § Links § Writing § Writing process ‡ Comments (3)