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January 19th, 2012 Dear world: I’m a failure. And I couldn’t be happier. I’ll explain why. First, a note about why I’m posting today. This is the third anniversary of Lascher at Large’s launch, of the day I first penned a modest declaration about how, “Whether breath on our lips, ink spread across a page, keys hammering into [...] May 10th, 2011 Stories now simmer
Words gathered chopped stirred and mixed
Their flavor seeps out April 13th, 2011 I admit that the story – and this entire series, delayed as it may be – has meandered from its path. Nevertheless, I’m also wrestling with how to respond honestly to my experiences, with what happened in my brain on the journey and whether it’s self-indulgent to serve this soup of thought (it’s a little too stagnant to call it a stream) to you, instead of a straightforward report of the who and the what I saw where and when. Which approach provides the real, honest reporting? [...] May 18th, 2010 Michelle Rafter, Blogathon Organizer and Owner of WordCount One of the more interesting features of the 2010 Blogathon is today’s guest post exchange day. Blogathon participants have wandered about the Internet to post on each other’s blogs. Visiting Lascher at Large today is Michelle Rafter, a freelance business and technology reporter who blogs about [...] May 5th, 2010 I’ve been skirting a number of un-publicly-expressed goals of mine during the 2010 Blogathon, or so I’d like to say. I knew when I agreed to participate in the Blogathon that I’d run headlong into a passion of mine or two. Except when meeting a reporting deadline, I don’t believe in writing in a [...] April 23rd, 2010 I agree that SEO isn’t about conforming to a robotic standard, but it’s also not about speaking to people, it’s about speaking to some sense of the mean average of what people are looking for. The thing is, if we want to succeed — both in reaching people and in drawing them back to our work — we can’t just be producing what the public is looking for, what the public wants to read. We must, we absolutely must tell the stories that the public doesn’t know it is looking for, that the public isn’t looking for, that the public hasn’t even conceptualized the terms for. If we don’t, in very short order we will tell fewer and fewer stories that matter, that impact society and we will lose not only all impact, but all value we are capable of offering the public. [...] February 24th, 2010
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Why don’t I just write the story? Why didn’t I just report each day’s journey? Why [...] January 5th, 2010 Today I leave Los Angeles for Portland, Oregon. As I do, I look forward to taking an as-yet determined path to my new home hundreds of miles north. I don’t know how exactly I’ll get to Portland, though I’ve set a few ground rules. I won’t set a firm date to get there. Though the trip could easily take as little as a day and a half, I don’t want to constrain myself to any schedule, lest I miss the world I pass through (you can help me get there, too). I may backtrack. I may make detours. I may decide to linger in one spot staring at the sky for hours. I may rush. I may wander. Which brings me to rule #2, perhaps the most exciting and most questionable part of my plans. To best experience the journey I plan to completely avoid freeways and even divided highways. Getting to Oregon from Southern California in January makes this a rather daunting task, particularly because I also plan to steer clear of the coast. As stunning as the coast is, I’ve seen much of it and hunger for a new path, at least this time around. [...] July 20th, 2009 A bevy of berries on display at the Wilshire Center/Koreatown farmers market above the Wilshire/Vermont Metro rail station. Settling into a life of self-employed writerdom has taken a bit of getting used to. Roadblock number one: discipline. Thus, despite grand plans and great lists and now-fleeting moments of inspiration, I’ve been [...] June 22nd, 2009 In the middle of the night I had it all figured out. In a journal rescued from stack of half-finished tomes, I penned thoughts about what I am doing here, free of school, free of work and ready to cast out on my own yet again. Writing with a sudden fervor, I [...] |
     
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