I want you all to know I suffered at the ruthless hands of time and atrophy to bring you this. We’re talking countless hours spent thinking, writing, scribbling, procrastinating, rewriting, deleting, groaning and starting over—all for a blog post. Nowadays it’s better. I developed an easy 7-step system that helps me power through my blog […]
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I’m back home now after a rather jolting week in Korea. While the the full impact of the visit hasn’t yet settled in, I have some meaningful impressions worth sharing. Family Will Be Family If my previous post was any indication of anxiety and speculation, this post reflects pragmatism and sobriety. In other words, meeting […]
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This isn’t your average Wordful post. In fact, I’m writing this from a hotel room in Seoul, South Korea, which is quite a change in pace from the warm family life I lead in Hawai‘i. The reason I’m here now is to take a few days to myself to discover the country of my mother […]
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Be a publisher first, marketer second. When your content is stellar, your marketing become easier. Certainly not the other way around. Keep a healthy, obsessive focus on this. Actually do something. Stop talking. Go out and build a site around some great, marketable content. Publish it. Get people passionate about it. Sell them something cool. […]
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Try snuffing the word “that” from your writing. Most of the time, you don’t need it. This sentence: She knew that she loved him and he knew that he loved her, too. can be reduced to: She knew she loved him and he knew he loved her, too. This tiny change will tighten your writing […]
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