Category: Writing
Poems, Excerpts, Original Ideas, etc
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I’ve been thinking more about structuring MikeWriting.com as an author hub. I’m really bought into the idea of releasing my first book for free. I don’t mean the collection of short stories. I mean book 2 — I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned book 2. Book 2 is about the myth of “original ideas”. It’s…
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I took a walk to get Annie some food from the pet store, came back home, and wrote 2800 words. Fiction. I guess. I imagined myself as an old man in the hospital being visited by my adult children who have children of their own. I can’t say exactly where the inspiration came from. I…
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When telling a story about a life struggle, tell us how you won or plan to win
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Today, I continued work on Book 1 with a series of notes. Not much is unique about that except the way that I record notes on my ideas has changed. I would use the native notes app on my iPhone, then I would save a back up in Google Docs. It got the job done…
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When initially planning my LLC’s website, I wanted to explain the services in a list of frequently asked questions. I thought of cool ways to design it like a colorful accordion. But I also thought “it’s been done”. That’s boring. Dated. Boring and dated are the opposite of what I want the business to achieve.…
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I’m reading a really good book. I’d been reading one fiction and one nonfiction simultaneously. But I’m giving this title my full attention. Making the best use of time is not in my wheelhouse. I had The 4 Hour Work Week a few months before I began reading. After I started the audiobook on Audible,…
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Many posts on MikeWriting.com are made with a lot of love. I wonder sometimes if I’m wasting that level of effort that could be being put into writing book. Maybe wasting isn’t the best term. I wonder if I should be redirecting that level of attention into book content. But then I think that each…
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I have a little more motivation to tighten my blog post draft process because of Podcasting Blogger. It will be my third live blog. I’m taking a really, really long time to draft the third and final piece of the Defining Success Series for Mike Writing. I think three weeks have passed since part two.…
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I got an invitation to write a guest post on a friend’s new blog. It’s my first invitation to guest write. Feels pretty damn good. I’m looking forward to dive in. Because of course I accepted. This is the kind of thing that lets audiences cross paths. I already have ideas. First, I plan to…
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It was fun to be busy today. I’m geeked about my new subscribers for Podcasting Blogger. I do feel a little bad for not having freebies queued up for new subscribers. But I took the steam and dedicated this weekend to organize my notes and get some freebies ready to fire off. I’m thinking I’ll…