Tag archive for ‘Writing’

Go Viral in 2 Months of Blogging

by Brandon Yawa - on Dec 6th 2012 - 1 Comment

Disclaimer: This blog is going to make you great. If you are great, then this post is going to make you greater. Blogging is a text-based television series. Name your favorite sitcom, then list all the reasons why you are glued to your television on a set day at a set time. You look forward to the familiar personalities going through...

Stop Writing and Be Bruce Lee

by Brandon Yawa - on Nov 23rd 2012 - 6 Comments

Disclaimer: You no longer live in your world. Instead, everything you are is now locked in a dojo called Write-Fu. There are no rules, and the only limitations are the ones you set upon yourself. The temple is completely packed, leaving you just enough room to write with your dull pen. Time to sharpen the artist. Periods, paragraphs,...

Being Semi-Pro Under Alien Intelligence

by Brandon Yawa - on Oct 31st 2012 - No Comments

There I was driving a beat up MacBook Pro, running on the latest edition of Ubuntu Linux playing Brandon Yawa’s latest hit, “Frankenstein Can’t Touch Me”. I left clicked my mouse and there it was, a spaceship. To my disbelief, it wasn’t a disk-shaped object with eclectic lights. Instead, it was a URL that read problogger.com....

Surviving a Failed Attempt at Writing a Blog

by Brandon Yawa - on Oct 7th 2012 - 12 Comments

You feel great. You have a topic you want to write about and you do what any writer does, you start writing. Hours pass and you are still on the first couple of paragraphs that seem more like a collage of standalone topics that were haphazardly coupled together. You ask your editor (your roommate) for his or her advice on what you have...

Donald Trump’s Bank Account

by Brandon Yawa - on Oct 3rd 2012 - 1 Comment

If you bumped into a handicap genie who said, “Sorry, I can only grant you one wish, and that one wish is complete and legal access to Donald Trump’s bank account”, I do not have to ask what your one wish would be. Just make sure to say thank you to the handicap genie when you pull off in your Lamborghini, or when you remodel...