Tagged: writing advice

A Few Words Are All It Takes

by Charles Bohannan on March 23, 2009 in Editing, Writing with 4 Replies

On Saturday I instantly lost six Twitter followers with this four-word tweet. Don’t ask me why, but maybe it offended some people. No big deal. What is a big deal is when a few words can destroy a lifetime of hard-earned success. Even one word can do it. It can happen to people who spend decades working on […]

Over-Thinking Kills Me

by Charles Bohannan on October 10, 2008 in Mindset and Productivity with 0 Replies

I remember when I was in my early 20s and I used to frequent these waterfalls and tropical pools behind my house in Hilo, Hawaii. My friends and I would stand at the top of these cliffs overlooking the water and then jump off. Sometimes the height was over 40 feet. Many times I could […]