Two Steps to Being the Top Google Search Result

A headline like that is sure to draw traffic, right? I do actually list two steps to being the top Google search result below, but will then emphasize how what a blogger really wants is not a high click-through rate for a single post but a vibrant community of readers who keep coming back. But you …

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A Creativity Lesson from Albert Einstein

Think with your entire brain and you'll be as creative as Albert Einstein. That is perhaps an oversimplification of the latest scientific research on the brain of one of the greatest minds of the Twentieth Century. But as The Washington Post reported on Sunday, the developer of the theory of relativity did in fact physically …

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A One-Week Social Media Withdrawal

Consider this post a "closed for business" sign for one week. I have before learned the value to my creative process of occasionally going off-grid. A week ago I received my memoir manuscript back from the accomplished memoirist and editor I hired to give it a final read. Her suggested revisions were dead-on, answering the …

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Building a (Supportive) Community Online

News alert: Online comment fields can get a little scary. There's nothing new there--I can remember in 1991 getting called a Nazi on a Usenet chat board about the "X-Files" (kids, ask Siri what Usenet is, and "X-Files" while you're at it) because someone didn't like my theory of The Smoking Man's motivation. But as …

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