This is a follow-up to the post I made last week a couple of weeks ago, which was about my experience of blogging over the last two-years. In this post, I hope to collect my thoughts on how I would like to improve going forward. My overall aim is still as it was when IContinue reading “Two years of blogging – part 2”
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Two years of blogging – part 1
It has now, well almost, been two years since I started publishing my ramblings on this blog, and on this occasion, I would like to engage in some reflection. I started writing short articles in an attempt to improve my writing. After several months of doing so, I thought it would be a good ideaContinue reading “Two years of blogging – part 1”
How do I do this? – 67
Sixty-seven weeks in a row and I still feel as if I don’t know how to do this. What the hell should I write here? The problem that is incumbent on the blogger is that the format is for relatively small bits of writing to be churned out in relatively short order. Most of us,Continue reading “How do I do this? – 67”
blogging on auto-pilot – week 61
It’s now December*, and I have just realised I have been writing these posts for almost a year and three months with only one week missed. It has been long enough now that I have forgotten where I got the motivation to start a blog from. I know why I am doing it, but IContinue reading “blogging on auto-pilot – week 61”
One year blogging review
Three months after I had first started my blogging experiment I wrote what has been by far my most successful blog post. It was an account of everything I had learnt during my first three months, and crucially, it was honest. I had many people comment underneath telling me how they knew something strange wasContinue reading “One year blogging review”
Becoming a hack blogger- Week 29 as a PhD student
Hack blogger mode engaged. I have guests arriving in two hours and fifteen minutes; I need to write a blog post and go to the gym. Therefore, this will be the quickest I have ever written a post. I have re-potted almost 100 rocket plants this week; we have been growing them in indoor growthContinue reading “Becoming a hack blogger- Week 29 as a PhD student”
Where the word ‘Blog’ comes from.
On my, about me page, I have mentioned that I don’t like the word ‘blog’. This Is mostly due to the connotations associated with the word. Let us see if you have the same image as me. Approximately, it is a young person, mid-twenties perhaps, with a profile picture standing on top of a cliffContinue reading “Where the word ‘Blog’ comes from.”
Learning to write 