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I've got two stories again this week (yaay!) Only one comic, though (boo!)
I haven't been lazy though. It's just that I've been investing more time into Twitter these days in the hopes of eventually growing a bit of an audience over there too.
Twitter turns out to be fun and I have plenty of little nuggets to share every day. So if you're on Twitter, feel free to say hello and, you know, follow me :-)
Good Writing Is All about Surprise
Or why you should hide Easter eggs throughout your text
How do you make a baby pay attention to you? How do you make it giggle and clap its clumsy marshmallow arms? How do you make it pee itself out of delight? Well, easy. You make funny faces. You play peekaboo. You blow a raspberry and make weird farting sounds.
And you know what? Entertaining your readers isn’t much more complicated than that. Whether it’s a baby or a middle-aged man named Bob who’s sitting in his yard on a folding chair, smartphone in hand, scrolling through your blog, the principle behind entertaining them is the same: you have to ...
Why Perfectionist Writers Should Focus on Quantity
Algorithms favor prolific writers
Everyone knows you should eat less junk and do more exercise. Everyone knows why. And yet, for so many people it just doesn’t click. It’s as if their brain isn’t correctly wired to see what ought to be done. They can’t accept what’s in their own best interest.
And the same is true when it comes to the quantity versus quality debate. Even if one approach is objectively better for you, you as a writer need to be receptive to it. It needs to click for you. You must have reached a point where you see the need of doing it one way over the other. And I finally realized quantity matters. A lot.
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