Day: February 12, 2013

As a writer sometimes you just look at the white page trying to breathe, trying to relax, trying to make the words flow.
Being a writer it is one of those interesting things, it seems so easy, it seems so simple… Sadly at least for this writer it is not.

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann

That sound more like me, and it is on those moments that I know that I am doing what I should be doing. It is not that it’s easy, it is that I will not do anything else.
Writing is hard because in many lines you need to deal with something inside of you that no one see, most of the time you have no clue where that blank page will take you (or not), it is an exploration as E.L. Doctorow said.

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go”
E. L. Doctorow

Finally, we all face that white page, there is no difference between the amateur and the professional writer. Both deal with the fear of the blank page, of the emptiness, the fear of what you may or may not discover, which demon you will find, what ugly and obscure thing it is inside your soul. We all look at the blank page and go crazy, there is only one difference between the amateur and the professional one… The later didn’t abandon that page until wasn’t blank anymore.

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”
Richard Bach

 

If your password is Love123, please stop reading this and change it. I am serious. (if it is 1234567890123, you must know that that password and no password is the same, even no password may be safer)
Most of our life is online. Identity theft is a scary reality. We can access bank, retirement, and so much information online, that it is scary that people use those poor passwords.
There are many applications like 1Password, I use to have SplashData for years before I move to 1Password. Doesn’t matter which one you use, the important is that you use complex and long passwords that can help to kept you protected.
I use 1Password and even create them for me, store them, and allow me to access from anywhere. Not only that, if you try to break in, after X attempts the file on that device is deleted. Something that I am glad it does.
If you go online, you should:
1.- Have real passwords.
2.- Store them on an application like 1Password.
3.- Change them at least twice a year (I like to do it during Daylight Saving time)
It’s important to have real and secure passwords. It’s important to have them in a secure location. It’s important that you don’t use the same password everywhere.