The Lucky 10,000
With friends like this, who needs to worry about FOMO?
I’m a writer. So I like to write about writing. I have also compiled a list of Writing Resources, which I may update from time to time.
With friends like this, who needs to worry about FOMO?
I used to think that George Bernard Shaw’s habit of stopping after completing his daily quota of exactly five pages, even if he were in the middle of a sentence, was simply a sign of his eccentricity. But I now realize that he was being canny. A big obstacle to starting to write is not…
If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you just stopped whatever writing you are pretending to do and googled “distraction-free writing apps.” So, let’s be clear: you’re the distraction.
A few years ago, I wrote a silly post called Top 10 Email Subject Lines for When You Just Want to Say ‘Hello.’ The post was an inside joke that turned into the most viewed post in the history of this site. I’m embarrassed that that simple post, which offers very scant advice for writing emails,…
Hey, should I start blogging again? Yes. Yes, you should.
The Best American Travel Writing, which highlights the best travel stories from the previous full year, arrives in bookstores and on tablets this week. The 2014 edition is edited by Paul Theroux, who has selected some outstanding reads from a variety of print and online publications. Here are few that you can read online right…
This past weekend, I was fortunate enough to attend TBEX, a meet-up of travel bloggers organized by Travel Blog Exchange and, in particular, Kim Mance of Galavanting. For those of you who attended and may have met me, I was under the guise of Italofile, my blog about Italy travel (@italofileblog on Twitter), and also…
Update: This post was originally written in 2009, when blogs had taken over but the iPhone was only two years old. The travel publishing world felt crowded but exciting in those times, especially if you had been brought up on writing guidebooks and working for travel start-ups that needed content content content. Influencers were already…