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Writing On The Internet
Just some things that come to mind when thinking about doing this*:
- Don’t read the bottom half of the internet. Comments are great sometimes, and terrible at others. So as a rule, don’t read them. If you’ve written something genuinely wrong, people will let you know, most often through email. You’ll hear either way, and then you can respond. Otherwise ignore praise and criticism in equal measure. Turn comments off! You don’t have to have comments! It’s your house, remember, and if people are dicks don’t invite them back for dinner.
When writing for publications which insist on comment sections, there’s not much you can do about it other than stick to the not reading comments rule, or possibly emailing your editor with a request to turn comments off. Twitter provides more than the space needed for readers to voice their opinions.
This works equally for Twitter/Facebook: Block is your friend! If there are people who constantly antagonise you/are idiots/rude/challenged by facts, then just filter them out. Unsubscribe! Use the filter function! BE BRUTAL. The internet should be made of cats, not fuckwits.
- Likewise! Don’t be a dick. If you are going to wade into comment sections as though you were retrieving a black diamond ring from a toilet bowl, for Goren’s sake use your own name. Sign in with Facebook/Twitter/Google and don’t write anything you wouldn’t be happily confronted with at a later date. And no ad hominem attacks, ever — are you five**?
- Don’t compare yourself. Perhaps you should use those filters for other things? If you really can’t resist the temptation to not compare yourself to other writers, then don’t follow them on Twitter, say. But better, just don’t worry about what other people are doing. Just worry about what you are doing, and keep on doing it. Take pleasure in other people’s success, it’s a much better way to be and it feels good to see people kick goals.
- Don’t self-Google. Are you insane? This goes back to just doing what you’re doing. If you have one of those alerts set up, delete it right now. If you ignore everything else I just said except this, I’ll feel good. Please, constantly reading about what other people are/aren’t saying about you is guaranteed to land you in therapy and also stop you from ever doing any work, ever, which is presumably what you are trying to do.
*I have at various times ignored ALL this advice, to my detriment.
** Except this once.
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Deep-sea observatory image of a cirrate octopus
On an otherwise barren-looking seafloor, this cirrate octopus was photographed by the time-lapse camera system on the Sargasso Sea Observatory. This species has characteristic webbing between its arms and two flapping fins on its head. It floats just above the seafloor in the benthopelagic layer and preys on animals in the upper layers of sediment. The webbing is thought to aid in feeding by creating a current of water being food closer to the beak. This suborder of octopus is famous for lacking an ink sack.
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HAY GUYS, a bunch of new stuff, including this eeeeeeeebook at my profesh “blog”.
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What a Klouchebag.
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“Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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Those days.
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After all is said and done, you usually find more was said than done.
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
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sometimes my computer shuts down unexpectedly and then so does my heart
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WHEN I PICK UP THE PHONE AND IT’S A FLACK
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