Writing

Ebooks Are Apples, Books Are Oranges

This is a follow-up to Ali’s Ebooks: Overpriced or Underrated. I’ve been meaning to write this for a while and her post catalyzed that intention into action. Many people make blanket comparisons between the price and value of books to ebooks. Usually, ebooks lose in the comparison because books are longer, cheaper, and written by recognized [...]

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Ebooks: Overpriced or Underrated?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Hale from Aliventures. Maybe you buy ebooks. Maybe you sell them. Maybe your Twitter stream and RSS reader have been full of launch after launch. I’d bet that, at some point (perhaps years ago, when you first bought an ebook), you’ve asked yourself how can a [...]

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It’s Time To Show Up Again

I don’t have a whole lot to say today, at least not right now. Actually, that’s not true – I have a whole lot that I want to say, but I haven’t gotten the clarity I need to figure out what I should say, when I should say it, and how I should say it. [...]

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Your Creativity Zoom Lens

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Hale from Aliventures. When you’re working on a project, you can have a big picture overview, or you can home right in on details. On Day One, you’re zoomed out: with a high-level idea – perhaps a fuzzy one – of what you want to accomplish. [...]

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Use The Two-Tab Rule To Stay Focused

How many tabbed windows do you have open right now? Can you remember what all those tabbed windows are about? In the early days of browsers, a perennial and annoying problem was only being able to have one window open at a time. Now, all major browsers give you the capability of opening windows in [...]

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What No One’s Telling You About Paid vs Free

At South by Southwest, a bunch of us were chatting about blogging. Charlie said something like I don’t know why Ali’s writing for me for free. And, later on in the week, I had a great discussion with Jonathan Fields about why I feel awkward about pricing my work. I’m still thinking through some things. [...]

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Writing Posts The Easy Way With TextExpander

[If you're reading this in via email or RSS, you'll have to click through to watch the video.] I’m going to say it up front: this is a long screencast, even for me. It weighs in at about 14.5 minutes. The star of this show is TextExpander, but Textmate also wins the prize for best [...]

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The Definitive Guide to Writing Better Blog Posts

I’ve read a lot of books on writing. I’ve also read a lot of ebooks and books on blogging. What I’ve been frustrated about, though, is that there aren’t a lot of books on writing blog posts that approach it from a writer’s perspective. Yes, becoming a better writer helps you write better blog posts. [...]

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Ask Charlie: How Do You Mindmap and Purge?

Note: “Ask Charlie” is a new category of posts where I answer the questions people send me via email, Twitter, or wherever else we interact. After trying to figure out the best way to get these going and what to name them, I decided to just roll with it the easy way and revise as [...]

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