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 […]
So. You sit at your desk, ready to punch those damn keys until a blog post will appear on your screen.
Thanks for being clear, succinct, and always helpful!
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Thank you for always reading my posts, Jan!
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I think the headline and subheadings are the most important part. people really don’t have time to read.
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Attention spans are decreasing rapidly.
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a nice picture could also do the trick. btw I was interested in a sponsored post but never got a reply. could we talk about it in private? (I don’t want to use PayPal)
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Hi,
Yes.
contact@cristianmihai.net is my e-mail address.
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I have your “voice” in my head every time I site down to write a blog post, and I’ve gotten some good feedback lately as a result! 🙂
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Thank you! That means that my advice is good.
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That is a little like saying, “All you need to do to fly is throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Ah one of my favourite lines from Hitchhikers Guide
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Read five of the linked articles already as a result of this 🙂
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Thank you!
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You’re quite welcome! Excellent reads!
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I love the photo. Having a window to look out of as I write would be awesome; especially having that view. And the desk is simply beautiful!
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