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The Secret to Successful Blogging

by Sunny Daydreame on November 24, 2009

in Writing Life

The secret to successful blogging is to be involved in real life relationships that involve give-and-take emotional intimacy.  If all of your social life takes place on the computer (blogs, twitter, facebook, forums, etc.), eventually you will step away and find that there is nothing left.  Those kind of relationships are about connecting with others without giving yourself, and that is no key to intimacy.  You can’t blog and expect to find the sort of relationships your heart desires.  You have to build the relationships and have a life outside of the internet first.

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Writerly Advice

by Sunny Daydreame on September 24, 2009

in Writing Life

I need to get a notebook and a pencil and a headlamp for my bedside table.  I thought of a brilliant blog post at 5 a.m. as I dozed during the first snooze alarm.  As soon as I woke up completely, I couldn’t remember what the brilliant blog post was about, all I remember is that it was brilliant.

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It took me 5 weeks to detox from the internet.  While I didn’t do anything as drastic as shaving my head a la Brittney Spears, I did do a lot of playing and a lot of driving (4000+ miles ROAD TRIP) and only came back to the internet when I realized that I missed my blogging.

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The 6 year old and the very old woman

July 29, 2009

Deep within me, there is a very old woman and a 6 year old living in conflict.
The very old woman is the one who, when I was in High school, thought I should only wear ankle-length skirts and avoid v-neck shirts like the plague. The very old woman gets caught up in all the [...]

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Mopping meditations

June 25, 2009

Mopping the floors is great meditation.  Especially when, as I am mopping I notice the beautiful wood grain of the 97 year old fir floors underneath the mop head.  And as I mop I begin to imagine how beautiful the floor will be when we finally get to refinish them.  Of course we won’t be [...]

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