Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog

What’s odd about you is what’s interesting.

Untitled, Olaf Rude, 1938 I talked to a friend who wants to start a blog, and she pulled a few thoughts from me: It is what is odd about you that is interesting. If you work hard, you will be able to write like everyone else in your genre, but the result will never be rich as the texture of your own personality. So, don’t think too much about how you are supposed to write, how others do it, or what the conventions demand. Just try to amuse yourself. Your contradictions are an asset. You’re a lover of classical English architecture and you’re also a dirty little punk—expressing both at the…

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