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My blog was began four years ago today. Were this a school, I would not either be a graduate or about to be buried in student loans. To that end, I offer the following advice to those who come after me...
Ladies and gentlemen starting a blog in 2007:
Use spell-check.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, spell check would be it. The long-term benefits of spell-check have been proven by editors, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your journal. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your journal until you've stopped posting. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at posts and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really wrote. You are not as boring as you imagine. If you were, you wouldn’t have pages worth of comments about your dislike of PMS.
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Sing. Record it, and play it if people ever ask you to sing again.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. If need be, carry around with you the heart of someone who did, as a warning to future generations.
Close your font tags.
Don't waste your time on jealousy over the number of people who've friended you. Instead consider the number of real friends you have, the ones who will help you move bodies, or if they’re really good friends, carry your lazy ass up Mount Doom.
::grins:: ahhh so true. read here for more
My blog was began four years ago today. Were this a school, I would not either be a graduate or about to be buried in student loans. To that end, I offer the following advice to those who come after me...
Ladies and gentlemen starting a blog in 2007:
Use spell-check.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, spell check would be it. The long-term benefits of spell-check have been proven by editors, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your journal. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your journal until you've stopped posting. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at posts and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really wrote. You are not as boring as you imagine. If you were, you wouldn’t have pages worth of comments about your dislike of PMS.
[...]
Sing. Record it, and play it if people ever ask you to sing again.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. If need be, carry around with you the heart of someone who did, as a warning to future generations.
Close your font tags.
Don't waste your time on jealousy over the number of people who've friended you. Instead consider the number of real friends you have, the ones who will help you move bodies, or if they’re really good friends, carry your lazy ass up Mount Doom.
::grins:: ahhh so true. read here for more