The Inner Game of Blogging

Timothy Gallwey’s brilliance was discovering that the subconscious has a lot more to do with success in sports than most people thought.  What we think, and when we think too much, can cause our performance to decline.  The same holds true with blogging, we can spend so much time looking for something to blog about that we never actually get around to writing anything.  Just start typing. I used to take blogging pretty seriously-I was pretty active on Blogcatalog, Technorati, and Digg.  Not so much now.  But recently I got a couple of emails asking me to check out their…

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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday is a rather depressing bit of business. It is the story of a writer and the trouble he causes all his creations, apparently to entertain himself. Though it is never really clear if the Creator is entertained or not. He seems as sad and pathetic as the characters whose strings he pulls. There is madness and mayhem and a lot of talk about bad chemicals and so on. The book is written in an odd style, even for the great and odd Kurt Vonnegut. Breakfast of Champions is about a number…

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