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It does not work unless you have a bank account in the US, so I'm out.

Muchas gracias, muy bueno :)

Had you placed a Creative Commons license, I'd be translating this gem right away. Probably one of your best post so far

This little one has been the most informative post I've read in a while. Thanks man, you rock.... and yet so simple

If somebody had ever told me that I would ever praise a post with strong words, I would have replied yeah and the Soviet Union is going to fall like that.

However, I'd like to say that, when you take risks, you can have the tough side of it. I was a lawyer, maybe young and not that experience, but I had survived the first years. Then I entered a Catholic seminary. Just in case, that means living in a Seminary, spending all my time there, so I had to close my office. Not exactly an easy thing to do.

Some years later I do not even consider myself Catholic anymore.

But... I felt fully alive, I did things I never thought I would be brave enough to do, like spending a summer with street children or, worse, helping in Mass with a cardinal -that makes your legs tremble if you are Catholic-: I learned philosophy, bits of theology, made my faith clear. Now I'm struggling to recover my position, finantially

but... I can say I'm living :)

I raised an elbow when I read about fears. How true. I did not use to worry about things like characters' voice or point of view until I learned the theory of these issues.

When I write in Spanish I never worry about spelling, yet I'm always uneasy when I do the same in English.

I think that you are casting an interesting thought on social networks. Now I don't use facebook much, but I guess we all need some intimate space online as we have off line.

I am a very happy twitter user :)

Hi Clay

I share can share your feelings. Yes, better to test the water first, then work or work on something else. Great grasp of the best of the 4HWW has to offer :)

One of your best posts so far Xavier. Discipline and passion for knowledge are not yet a thing of the past, nor they should be.

what I do is a sort of motivational trick, I remember how it felt when I was in the zone, writing as if possessed.

Mine is a fountain pen. Yes I can type, and fairly faster than most people, but still when I want to write fiction, there is nothing to me but the fountain pen and the moleskine.

So I understand you. Any nuts to spare? :)

I agree, but it's not just in art. it's the same in more simple things like running. It looks much worse before you start than when you are actually doing.

I wonder if it's part of human nature, a fear of some sort...

Count me in too. I can read English, Spanish

Thanks. I will try this night.

Thanks for sharing. I'm always on the find of new producitivity methods

Congratulations Kerris, but you did better than the Squirrel, you jumped by yourself! :)

A very helpful video. I am just worried about your sleep, you look tired, or was that the camera?

Thanks for this great post. I need to read the manifesto too. When I taught I met many children being raised by "virtual families", and you could all touch their sadness.

Thanks for posting, it is great insight, and probably something I need to do right now, but there is something I need to know...

What's a Department of Social Inventions ? I

Hi Clay

What I like more about this article is how she shares the hardships too.

Just a quick thank you note to you. As a newbie blogger, your advice probably arrives right in time.

Thanks Chris, one of my projects is to develop a "post quality checklist" for my blogs. I'm using yours as a resource, and a great one.