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My brain shifted over the past year as I’ve taken to daily writing. Before, I’d sit down to put words on the page, and find that my brain shut the process down before it began. We each have two different parts of our brain that fight with each
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I’ve worked from home for the past six years. In the years prior, my work time was a mixed bag of remote and in-office. Now, living in a small town in Idaho, spending most of my days in a small room, I have a lot of time to
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I learned to read at a later age than most. For me that came around 8 years old, when I picked up basic books and began to understand the core concepts of reading from my mother. At 9 I was fully in it, so to speak, and reading books on
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This has been a long time coming. Years ago someone asked me to compare the Roost versus Nexstand. I ignored the request, and went about my life. Since then I've had numerous occasions where the comparison came up. Since I have often worked in coffee shops, co-working
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I've been exploring a number of writing methods for fiction over the past year. My learning has been part doing, and part knowledge input. This has included diving into a number of non-fiction books, tons of great podcasts, articles, courses, and more. In addition, I've
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Since September 2019 I've been engaged in the process of daily writing. This writing has been for offline projects, which someday will see the light online. It's been long enough, so this is an update on a few fronts. Work - 2020 was a crazy year for
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A few pictures from my journey down to Lewiston with a friend. It's such a beautiful city; thankful to call Idaho home!
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In September, 2019 I began writing a novel. One thousand words per day, six days per week. By Thanksgiving the manuscript was complete. The next day I started a second novel, and completed the manuscript this week. I stuck to a plan suggested by Stephen King in On Writing, and
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Bloomberg today shared a report that Apple may be considering opening up third party apps as the default options on the iPhone. This would be a welcome change. There are a number of instances where I switch between the default Apple app and a competitor: * Pandora vs Apple Music vs
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Writing for me has become a creative outflow to process my thoughts. Sometimes it means taking the time to write something out in order to better understand a thing and process it. At other times it means spending that time to write out the thing I wish I could read,
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My process for buying a new product is, from an outsider's perspective, rather slow and uncertain. I often spend months thinking about a product and trying to figure out the best way to incorporate it into my personal or work life. My new office chair was no exception.
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I had a lovely chat today with Brian from WPSessions.com. While chatting we got on the topic of knowledge sharing, as that's a large part of what he does each day. One thing that strikes me, time and again, is how much insight each of us have