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Blogging Advice Taken to Heart…

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

I tend to over-research and over-analyze things. Before I ever wrote my first blog, I studied the art form exhaustively.  I read books like Naked Conversations.  I scoured biz, political, and science blogs–looking for acceptable ways to offer my purely unsolicited opinion.

But it turns out the best (read: game changing) tip on blogging came from Nora Ephron who advised Charlie Rose on how to do it. She said, “Sit down and write, and write it fast, and if you’ve been working on it for more than an hour and a half it’s not a blog. It’s something else and you’ve taken too long on it because it should really feel as if it’s true at that moment and then not much longer than that.”  Bingo.