Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times.
“A word after a word after a word is power.” ― Margaret Atwood There’s this thing called verbal narcissism. It’s pretty much the ability to game a wall, if it comes to that. To sell sand in the Sahara Desert. It also means to be so in love with your own words that it could mean […]
I was doing a bit of research into Pablo Picasso for the showcase of his earliest works, and I read that he created some fifty thousand works during his life. Fifty thousand. If you were to do one per day, it would take you some 136 years. A hundred and thirty six years… Do you […]
To those of you who don’t know me well enough, I say this: My name is Cristian Mihai. I’m 28 years old. And I have been writing for fourteen years. I make art. I aspire to create beauty. I wrote because I was broken, felt alone, different, too weak to even matter in a big […]
From Amazon.com: It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than […]
I think this is good advice in general! I know I am just getting started with the whole “blogging thing,” but I think it’s always best to write the kinds of posts you would like to read as well! Good advice!
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I suppose it runs tight through the thread of the eight points, but I’d want the overriding advice to be “be authentic” – to self, subject, purpose?
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All three. At the same time.
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I have been wondering about this so I am happy you posted these pointers. I think I’m doing okay with the comments I have left so far. Thanks for posting this.
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These pin pointers do well on wordpress than my experience with facebook. as I ‘m getting more readers on the former than I do with the latter. lol. FB, I only get a few responses. But really good advice. Thanks.
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So far, this is the best advice.
I also think readers should write the comments they would like to receive on their blogs..i like it
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