by Leo Babauta | Oct 22, 2009 | Fiction
Get your pencils sharpened for November. By Leo Babauta I’ve decided to take the plunge and join NaNoWriMo in November (for the 2nd time), attempting to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days. Join me! I successfully completed NaNoWriMo in 2006, and it was an...
by Leo Babauta | Oct 15, 2009 | Become a Top Blogger
After blogging for years now, it’s hard to remember what it was like when I first started out. I’ve written thousands of posts, not only for Zen Habits and this blog, but as guest posts (and in the past, paid posts) for dozens of other blogs. But I’m...
by Leo Babauta | Oct 8, 2009 | Become a Top Blogger
Photo courtesy of mezone. By Leo Babauta There was a time when I would agonize over writing a post, get it perfect, and basically spend hours on it (if not days) before publishing. Perfect is the enemy of a good blogger. These days, I post to four different blogs...
by Leo Babauta | Sep 17, 2009 | Become a Top Blogger
Blogging and writing shouldn’t be just about talking about what you did today, or rambling about things in general — at least, not in my mind, not if it’s done well. It should be about creating something new, giving birth to something of beauty, of...
by Leo Babauta | Aug 13, 2009 | Become a Top Blogger
It’s not news that the news industry is changing rapidly, and the traditional newspaper and magazine industry is in a whole mess of trouble. Newspapers are losing readers at an alarming rate to online reading — and readers are reading not only newspapers,...