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I tend to venture over to the AnswerMan every so often to see what tricks he has to share with us, and came across THIS interesting post, which lead to an interesting site.

NaBloPoMo standsing for “National Blog Posting Month”, but it’s been going on for a while now. The challenge is issued every month to try and post every single day. I already try to post every day, and thus far have only missed on day back the first week I started. I have good feelings about this!

IMO, posting every day is the easy part, it’s have good posts every day that’s the challenge. Even at this point looking back at some of my earlier posts I groan at the quality.

My background in writing comes from two main sources: writing biology research papers, and writing short science fiction. Research has taught me to write clearly, and concisely. Scientific journals have a history of tiny word limits, due to the cost of printing (now that many scientific journals are entirely online this has been lifted, but the tradition still remains) so EVERY word had to count. However, you also had to remove all emotion and have very passive papers as to not sound bias in your research. I’ve been writing true scientific papers since high school (Yup, National Science fair winner here!), so conciseness has been driven into my head.

I’ve been writing short stories since… ever. I have always had a very (very very very) active imagination, and writing has been an outlet for that since I can’t draw. I’ve still never been published, but that is more of a testament to my own laziness since I’ve never really submitted my work except to this one local contest every year. Here is where I learned voice, which I’ve been complimented on in my writings. As you read my blogs you probably get a sense of energy from most of my posts, and this isn’t by accident. I try to make them feel lively and exciting via my word choice and sentence structure. Friends often call on me to write letters for them as I have a nack for writing them in a completely diplomatic way, but at the same time make the reader feel like they lost the argument. Voice is a skill not often thought of in writing anymore, but is the most important skill.

What was I saying about being concise? LOL

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