Before Blogging 101, I used to comment on blogs without any worries, just as the spirit moved me. I never thought much about what to say or how to say it. But in Blogging 101 we were given guidelines on how to make valuable comments, and I’m still thinking about those. One tip: “Mind your manners. If you wouldn’t […]
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I’m doing the 3-week Blogging 101 course run by WordPress University. Three weeks is an ideal length. Actually, I’m squashing it into two weeks, and I’m not the only one. I’ve read that the majority of people enrolled in MOOCs (Mass Open Online Courses run by universities) drop out after four weeks. So I’m guessing […]
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Did you have a label slapped on you as a child? It’s common, goodness knows. In large families they are kind of useful as an identity short-cut for outsiders. I used to think that such labels were all bad, constricting and sometimes condemning us to be a certain sort of person. Now I’m toying with […]
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Last year I overdosed on new year resolutions. Within a self-imposed boot camp for the bonus years, I set myself 12 tasks. I thought they were separate tasks but they turned out to be entangled and synergistic. I expected them to be pretty easy but they turned out to be rebellious, recalcitrant and complicated. To find […]
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I wish I had a mansion in Remuera for every time someone asked me this question: “Where do you get your ideas from?” Usually the answer is — “I don’t know! My head is teeming with ideas. Isn’t yours?” I think a head teeming with ideas is normal. The difference is that a writer has […]
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