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Is Blogging really good for Writing?

July 31st, 2010 NeoBluePanther

Have you ever asked yourself the question : “Is Blogging good for Writing?” If you have, I am sure the answer must have been very obvious – a resounding yes!

I have, in the past, written a few posts that talk about how Blogging can help you improve your skills as a writer. I am not going to backtrack on anything that I have said in those posts,  but in this post I will play the devil’s advocate and try to build up a case to prove that blogging can actually be detrimental to you as a writer.

Not possible, you say. Read on then is what I say!

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Wanna attend a Writers Conference?

July 15th, 2010 NeoBluePanther

I have always wanted to attend a writer’s conference, but living and working in a small, remote town has ensured that my wish to attend one remains just that – a wish.

Today, however, as I was browsing the Internet I came across the Annual Muse Online Writers Conference. The site claims to be the only free conference of its kind, and further adds, “No matter where you live, what you write, at what point you are in your writing career, you’ll find a workshop that fits your needs during our week long conference”

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5 Steps to Staying Motivated!

June 16th, 2010 NeoBluePanther

“We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.”
- Peter F. Drucker

Motivation, as a concept, has intrigued experts for ages. The above quote by Drucker succinctly defines all that we know about motivation. New books on the subject, however, keep coming out every year, and each of these books sells quite well because, each one of them claims to take the level of your motivation to a new high. But, does that really happen?

If you are anything like me, it does.

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Finish What You Start!

June 9th, 2010 NeoBluePanther

“Well begun is half done,” Aristotle said. And Aristotle, as we all know, was a very smart man. This quote by Aristotle, however, presents only one part of the picture, and the picture is quite incomplete without the other half, which is as important as the first half. This other half can be summarised with Shakespeare’s line, “All’s well that ends well”.

In my discussions with friends and peers, I often come across instances where someone starts writing something, and then, somewhere in the middle, they lose interest and give up. I myself have done that many times. An idea strikes me. I sit down on my computer in right earnest, and then, half way through, I feel that the idea was not as exciting as it initially seemed. I lose all interest in completing what I had started, and the piece remains unfinished forever.

Does that ever happen to you?

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What was that again?

June 3rd, 2010 NeoBluePanther

Once, many years ago, I was walking down a road, when a hand suddenly came to rest upon my shoulder. I jumped in surprise, and turned to see a man looking down at me. He was staring at somewhere around my waist. The word “PERVERT” immediately formed itself in my mind, but before I could react, the man said, “Wow, your wrists, you must play cricket?”

“Ummmm, Yes, a little!” I said. Everyone in India plays a little cricket.

“You must be a batsman,” he continued. Now, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t flattered. “I have not seen wrists like yours… they are almost like Sachin Tendulkar’s, or Brian Lara’s,” he finished. If you don’t know who those two are, suffice it to say that they are the best of the best in the game of  Cricket. I was flattered earlier, but I think the English language does not have a word to describe what I felt now. We talked for a little bit more, and then we parted ways.

Till this day, I sometimes feel, that I made a wrong career choice. Maybe I was born to be a cricketer.

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