Zen & the Art of Remarkable Blogging
I like this little riff about the Zen qualities of blogging, from a blog by and for web copywriters. I especially admire this passage: "Zen encourages meditation, and great blogging requires contemplative thought. If you’re truly going to get into lateral thinking mode, you’ve got to step away from the keyboard and think. Stop surfing, twittering, and reading RSS feeds and go for a walk." Just replace the word "blogging" with "writing," and it applies to every possible kind of writing. This is all just another way of saying what historian David McCullough once observed to Diane Rehm: "People always ask how much of your time is spent researching and how much of your time is spent on writing? But nobody ever asks me how much time I spend thinking. And writing is thinking."
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Great quote, John, thanks.
Love the Zen analogy, especially as my company gets ready to revamp its web site design and content. Major undertaking that requires thinking!
This is obviously easier said than done for working moms (and dads), Jill. And c, all the way from the Twin Cities, thanks for reading, and especially for commenting. And per your post from a couple of weeks ago, happy belated birthday. Good luck with that website project. Do please check back and share the link when it's finished.
NEWS FLASH: Nighttown is the new home of The Press Club of Cleveland, The Press Club's Hall of Fame & Visual Archives.
Indeed it is, dear anonymous. I was set to go the other night, but had to bow out at the last moment. I hear there were as many as 150 folks there, though. But a trusted friend who did attend reports that it was a nearly all-white crowd (only three minorities could be seen, he says) and decidedly skewed to an older demographic. But then, since Cleveland journalism is barely surviving on a feeding tube, that's not really so surprising.
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