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Nov. 15th, 2012 05:34 pmPassed this on to
miss_geek yesterday, but wanted to put it here as well...From The Oatmeal on being a web content creator...
Some Thoughts and Musings about Making Things for the Web
Not that I do this…but applicable to any creative endeavor, I think. Except for the whole “making a living at it” aspect, because I would starve if that were the case.
"Inspiration is more like food poisoning; it spays out uncontrollably when you need it the least."
I don't consider myself a writer, but darned if ideas for things don't pop up when you have a deadline, or something else desperately needs doing (I often get an urge to do housework in those situations as well, except when I'm supposed to be doing housework).
I came across these the other day; I was thinking about doing some myself since I've been terrible at updating lately. The BlogHer network was having an alternative to NaNoWriMo, since I've been terrible about updating lately; National Blog Posting Month - the theme is Blogging For the Sake of Blogging and here's a list of prompts - never mind that I find them when November is half over with.
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Some Thoughts and Musings about Making Things for the Web
Not that I do this…but applicable to any creative endeavor, I think. Except for the whole “making a living at it” aspect, because I would starve if that were the case.
"Inspiration is more like food poisoning; it spays out uncontrollably when you need it the least."
I don't consider myself a writer, but darned if ideas for things don't pop up when you have a deadline, or something else desperately needs doing (I often get an urge to do housework in those situations as well, except when I'm supposed to be doing housework).
I came across these the other day; I was thinking about doing some myself since I've been terrible at updating lately. The BlogHer network was having an alternative to NaNoWriMo, since I've been terrible about updating lately; National Blog Posting Month - the theme is Blogging For the Sake of Blogging and here's a list of prompts - never mind that I find them when November is half over with.