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A recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggests that young people have grown bored with blogging.
Meanwhile, the use of social networking applications (except Twitter) has been on the rise. Is this yet another indication of a fickle population with a very short attention span?
While blogging among adults [...]

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Thomas Edison said that genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. I can say that much is the same with creativity. You can only get so far with inspiration, but you actually have to do something about it in order to actually be creative. Creativity involves both the output [...]

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They say you are what you eat. I think I must agree with the proverbial all-knowing they. If you listened to your high school biology teacher closely enough, you would learn that when we digest our food, our bodies would then break these into tiny little bits that somehow [...]

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Perhaps at one time or another you’ve come across blog posts or articles about how to succeed in blogging. One common advice that people who have met success in blogging would give you is probably this: that you should write, write and write. True enough, successful blogging entails consistency. If [...]

Oftentimes when I’ve finished drafting a blog post, I think long and hard before I hit the publish button. I wonder whether my post makes sense at all. I wonder if it will hit some nerves. I wonder if I have made mistakes. I wonder if people will critique and criticize.
And then in a moment [...]

There was a stage in my life a few weeks back when I had the luxury of sitting down in front of my laptop in the morning, sipping coffee, and posting on this very blog. These could be observations, anecdotes, opinions, or editorials on just about anything relevant. I was, as I said a while [...]

My family is fond of watching cooking shows on the Food Network. Oftentimes, our favorite ones are those featuring Giada di Laurentiis. For some reason, whenever she cooks, prepares or even eats food on her shows, it’s not only the visual and auditory senses that get stimulated. But you feel as if you’re actually smelling [...]

There’s a sense of loss and frustration that comes when a person starts writing for a living. In a way, it takes out the enjoyment even from that one thing that you love doing. They say that if you choose a job you love, you will never have to work a day in your life. [...]

Writers are a spoiled bunch. We have all sorts of habits–some strange, some mundane. Just like most creative individuals, a lot of writers need to be in the zone in order to be productive. That means we cannot be forced to just work. We need space. We need a great environment. Otherwise, the world will [...]

Since we both started working from home, my wife and I developed a habit of watching movies on TV or DVD during evenings when we didn’t have much workload. Lately, every Thursday evening, we enjoy catching the latest episode of Harper’s Island, which is a grisly suspense series not for the squeamish. The premise is [...]