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cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by carlos.a.martinez Talking with good friends Tom and Leah Whitford, we were discussing moving staff forward and some of the conversations that drive our thi...

Whether you are just starting blogging or have been a blogger for a while, you have probably noticed how tough the competition for the top spots truly is. With hundreds of thousands of new articles published daily on a platform like WordPress alone, trying to stand out from the crowd can feel quite challenging. I was in your shoes not so long ago, so I understand.

With that being said, experience has taught me that sometimes, all you need is a little push to turn challenges into possibilities. As a matter of fact, how would you feel if I told you that:

Standing out from the crowd is really not that hard?
Successful blogging does not require super skills?
Major traffic is completely within your reach?
You do not need to spend a fortune to get the results you want?

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***** Tucking this away to think about later. Marty

Richard Rhodes, the Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and of 23 other books, delivered one of the keynotes at this year’s Mayborn Conference for Literary Journalism. 

Here are five top takeaways from that address, followed by an edited transcript of his talk and a snippet from the Q-and-A session that followed....

[Inspiring read for writers, bloggers, PR and content marketing pros - JD]

Marty
My favorite piece of this inspiring keynote by a favorite author discusses writing's sweat equity with writing the book at hand not chasing some perfect mental mirage:

The book in your head may be the platonically ideal book you could write, while the book you do write may seem a poor beast indeed, Caliban to your ideal book’s Prospero. But the book you write is real. And when you finish, you can hold it in your hands. And when you’re ready, you can share it with others. The world will be a little warmer place as a result.

And

To extract meaning from the real takes imagination. (indeed)