Tag: writing

  • NaNoWriMo and Typed Wordiness

    Reading Time: 2 minutesNovember has Arrived. With November so does NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo is the US National Novel Writing Month. This is the month where people spend every day writing 1,667 words per day, so that by the end of the month they have a draft of a novel. I have tried the challenge several times…

  • Blogging for Three Hundred and Sixty Six Days in a Row

    Blogging for Three Hundred and Sixty Six Days in a Row

    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor three hundred and sixty six days I have written a blog post daily. In some cases I wrote two posts, and scheduled the post to appear the next day. This is when I was driving for thirteen hours, or if I knew that my morning was busy. In the process I…

  • The Daily Struggle to Find Something to Write About – CloudNeo Shoes

    The Daily Struggle to Find Something to Write About – CloudNeo Shoes

    Reading Time: 5 minutesFor three hundred and sixty two days I have struggled to find a topic to write about. In that time I have, more than once, felt, during my walk, that I had a great idea for the next day, only to deflate the next morning. On CloudNeo Yesterday as I was running…

  • NaNoWriMo and Blogging

    NaNoWriMo and Blogging

    Reading Time: 3 minutesNovember is the month when a group of people try to write 1667 words per day for a month. they have write-in events, word sprints and many other gimmicks to encourage them to break the challenge into less daunting challenges. I didn’t even consider participating this year for a simple reason. This…

  • One Hundred And One Blog Posts in One Hundred and One Days

    One Hundred And One Blog Posts in One Hundred and One Days

    Reading Time: 3 minutesI have written at least one hundred and one blog posts in one hundred and one days. During this time most blogs have gone by unread. Blogging could be seen as futile but it isn’t. Having the discipline to write every single day, despite having no inspiration is good. It forces us…

  • Learning By Writing despite GPT

    Learning By Writing despite GPT

    Reading Time: 3 minutesI am old enough to remember a teacher writing on a board or piece of plastic for an overhead projector. “Why don’t you just give us photocopies of what you’re writing instead of asking us to copy down what you’re writing. “Because you will remember it better if you write it down.”…

  • chatGPT, GPT3 and Reading Time

    chatGPT, GPT3 and Reading Time

    Reading Time: 2 minutesTime for a new discussion to take place. Reading time. Do you read through articles or do you skim them. Is reading the headline enough or do you read every word of the article? I ask because in the age of chatGPT and GPT3 I would ask the same question as I…

  • Ninety Five Days of Blogging In A Row

    Ninety Five Days of Blogging In A Row

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have managed to neutralise the inner censors. I have accomplished ninety five days of blogging in a row, once again. During the first 100+ days of the pandemic I did the same. At the time I thought that this would provide a document of how life was for the pandemic. The…

  • Blogging And Digital Minimalism

    Reading Time: 3 minutesBlogging and Digital Minimalism are related. Blogging is about finding a topic and focusing on it for an extended period of time. Social media has shifted from being a conversation between individuals to one where personalities broadcast, and their audience is ignored. When I saw an article, read a book, or had…

  • Of Twitter Threads (mice) and Blog Posts (Humans).

    Reading Time: 3 minutesWith the sentence “Of Twitter threads (Mice) and Blog Posts (Humans)” you’ll see that I’ve done two things. The first is that I’ve modernised a well-known book title to draw parallels with the practices of writing Twitter threads and blog posts. People write twitter threads because they think that it’s fast, convenient,…