How to improve your writing/blogging skills?

In my previous talk, we have learned the sad truth about writing and blogging. We also learned that writing is a talent and not for everyone but can also be learned. Today, I will tell you some tips on how you can "learn" to write or to blog and how to improve your skills. The tips are based from my own experiences as a writer in a magazine and also as a blogger. After reading these tips, I hope that you are on your way to blog or write, effortlessly! Okay, without further ado, lets go on with the following tips:

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The sad truth about writing and blogging

Blogging has done (and still doing) a tremendous effect in our world wide web today. Everyday, thousands, if not, millions of blogs are being set up by individuals around the world written in different languages.

If you are a reader of some professional blogs out there, you might have already read that blogging is for everybody and anyone who has an internet access and some brilliant ideas can actually setup a blog. However, despite the millions of registration to new blogs and websites to become aspiring bloggers, only a few number of people have stayed to become successful. What could be the root cause for this problem?

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"Babel" Movie Review

About a couple of months ago, I had a chance to watch the movie "Babel" with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchet as their main attraction to the film. I know this review was far overdue, but since it's now a new year for all of us, I'd still wanted to write this review, anyway.

"Babel" is a movie composed of four ill-twisted, intertwining fate stories. The first one is the story of two brothers caught up in a situation they can never escape, the second story revolves around a couple stranded in the middle of a life and death situation, the third story is about a nanny, the children she is taking care of and their misadventure across the Mexican border and finally, the fourth story is about a disturbed Japanese deaf girl who lacks love and attention. Their stories are bonded by a rifle.

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Featured Recipe: Chicken Sopas

Let's have a break on articles about blogging, writing and other stuffs and savor ourselves in this delicious soup recipe that I wrote and posted in my former, now-defunct recipe blog. Hehehe... Yes, I cook meals... and making sopas and other soup dishes are just two of my cooking talent delicacies. This is not Chicken Soup for the Soul™, but this is a real chicken soup with macaroni recipe... a Filipino chicken sopas dish! Aaaaaw! Hehehe...

Anyway, it's nice to know that everything is instant nowadays — instant messaging, instant car, instant lottery winner, instant fame — name it, it's INSTANT! Even foods are joining the instant bandwagons (hahaha) — instant noodles, instant pancit canton, instant soup. Yes, instant "things" make our complicated lives so very easy. But don't you wish some things could go back to its original form and let the "real" thing emerge?

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