“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.” – TD
I think there are two blogger types: Those that love the topic they write about and those that love to write about a topic. I think I’m the later, but I’m trying hard to be the former. Everyone that’s been publishing stuff online for a while and has been “successful” at it, agree unanimously on this one tip: you have to find that one thing that your “passionate” about. And the more focused and narrow you are about that passion/topic, the better off you are. The problem is that most of us are not as weird or unique as we might think.
What I realize is that it’s not about the capital P Passion thing. That’s just too much Pressure and too ephemeral. It is important, but what you really have to figure out is what you shouldn’t talk/write about. What not to put out there. It’s about disciplined self-editing and that’s why it’s so freaking hard.
In the final analysis, we are all carbon, so “I’m just an old chunk of coal.” Doubt I’ll live long enough to “be be a diamond someday.”
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