HOW TO BLOG
Monday, June 9th, 2008
How to blog teach, write, make art:
- Wonder at something.
- Invite others to wonder with you.
NOTES ON WRITING AND DRAWING
June 9th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I vote “yes”! Sounds like a great way to get people thinking and talking.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
My first reaction was that it was an interesting but shallow summary. But the more I’m thought about it, the more it seems to include everything I do at Frozen Toothpaste. That said, my other blogs don’t quite fit the description. So, I guess that means you can mark me down as “sort of yes.”
June 10th, 2008 at 8:49 am
A corrolary to “be passionate about what you write and others will be too”…
June 10th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Laura: right on
David: Shallow! I’m offended! (j/k: “Stuff White People Like #101 - Being Offended”
Derik: You’re right
And because THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES, I came across Russell Davies’ “How To Be Interesting” today. Same message: be interested in something, and share it with others.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Hope you enjoyed your Jimmy John’s.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I always enjoy Jimmy Johns — #6 vegetarian, please.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Damn. You’re totally right, it’s that easy. I need to get on that wondering thing with a bit more consistancy…
side note - at a south by southwest breakout I went to this year, another HR Blogger (Penelope Trunk, http://www.brazencareerist.com) said that one of the best ways to get noticed as a blogger (and thus hired as a professional blogger) is to comment on other people’s blogs…sort of a step 3 - ask others what they think about your wonderings (yes or no?)and back to step one - wonder about their answers…
June 11th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Somewhere there’s a Raymond Carver quote about writing as just being able to look at a jar of jam on the kitchen table as the sun is coming up and just wondering at it.
Okay, so maybe it wasn’t a jar of jam, maybe an ashtray or something.
Will find the quote — think it might be in FIRES
June 11th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
don’t want to be too negative, so ideally YES - of course!
June 19th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Isn’t that what we do as little children? Questions we as parents don’t know the answer to……
July 8th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I adore Jimmy Johns Veg #6. All their neon big talk don’t lie.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Is that a T shirt? Simply, yes, though reminded of the comedy sketches where someone is staring up at nothing at all while, lemming-like, passers-by join in the staring.
August 8th, 2008 at 1:56 am
I think you’re on to something.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Here’s how Merlin Mann puts it: