Bloggers build authority with original research and field notes
A close look at the observational note-taking techniques that help some independent writers build a distinctive body of work that others cannot easily replicate.
The notebook in the back row There is a particular kind of writer who shows up to the same conference three years running, sits toward the back with a battered notebook, and asks questions no one else in the room thought to ask. You find their blog later. It reads differently from the rest of the discourse not because the topic is unusual, but because the details are. They remember which phrasing a speaker used, the way the room shifted when a certain point landed, the attendee who left mid-session and what they...
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