Nancy Rawlinson » Blogging http://www.nancyrawlinson.com Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How Awesome Is My New Website? http://www.nancyrawlinson.com/2009/09/how-awesome-is-my-new-website/ http://www.nancyrawlinson.com/2009/09/how-awesome-is-my-new-website/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:20:11 +0000 Nancy Rawlinson http://www.nancyrawlinson.com/?p=391 Seriously – how awesome is it? Very awesome indeed is the correct response.

Thanks to Jeremy D’Arcy for his fine design skills and for accommodating all my persnickerty requests with such good grace. There are a few broken images and links here and there – I have to find and fix them, which I will do forthwith. Bear with me.

I’ll tell you something else that is also awesome: The writing of Rainer Maria Rilke. Something I read today prompted me to go hunting for a quote of his that I half remembered – about, appropriately enough, memory. I found it, and also this quote, which I did not know, but love, and which sums up my feeling right now:

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”

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justcheckfuturememory1

]]> http://www.nancyrawlinson.com/2009/02/just-check-your-future-memory-online/feed/ 3 For the Love of Blog http://www.nancyrawlinson.com/2009/02/for-the-love-of-blog/ http://www.nancyrawlinson.com/2009/02/for-the-love-of-blog/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:17:26 +0000 Nancy Rawlinson http://nancyrawlinson.wordpress.com/?p=197 I have come to a realization: in order to be a successful blogger, you have to blog for the love of blog. Doing it as a professional development exercise doesn’t work. Guilting yourself into it out of loyalty to your readers (Hi Alison!) doesn’t work. You have to find rewards in the process itself. It’s like writing that way. Perhaps this is obvious to some people — it only took me, um, six months to get there. This is hard won wisdom, guys!

This realization reminds me of when I started online dating. My first profile was so obviously reluctant, making it clear that I wasn’t comfortable with the process of putting myself out there, that I got very few responses. Then I figured it out, revamped my self presentation, and met my husband. Again, basic writing lessons apply: in order to make it as a freelance writer, you have to match your content and voice to the task at hand. Ecce signum.

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