17 years of blogging

I started this 17 years ago today. I’m aiming to avoid making my 18th the quietest yet. The idea of using AI to spew words for me is silly. What you see here will always be what I typed.  The writing now is not bloggable anymore. It’s practical, logistical and personal for the exhibitionism required. The …

Kottu.org turns 15 today

Long forgotten Sri Lankan blog aggregator kottu.org went live 15 years ago (details at the end of this post). For most of the handful of people who are reading this, the previous sentence will read as an irrelevance. kottu.org is an artefact of Sri Lanka’s early 21st century “Digital Culture”. I had the privilege of …

13th year blogging

I started this blog 13 years ago today. It remains a transformative experience. There’s a social element to it - this is social media after all. Yet the biggest change is in the head. It’s made putting the output of mental activity into words a common practice. Which in turn makes you self aware of …

Tools For Writing Anywhere Anytime

Write at any moment. Wherever you are. Even for a few seconds at a time. Use the time windows between the demands of life to move words out of your head. One sentence at a time. Piling your sentences into complete pieces of writing. Let the result make you happy. It's what Nibble Writing's about. …

Writing as thinking is NOT GOOD writing

Writing as a thinking process is not GOOD Writing. The two are very different. Here's how.