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    Why I Won’t Do SEO Ever Again

    It nearly destroyed my creativity I hate Search Engine Optimization (SEO). I don’t imagine I’m the only one. When I started my blog three years ago, I knew nothing about it. I just happily wrote away the way I wanted to write. I was six months into my blog. I had gained a reasonable following. Then SEO arose like a Leviathan and stood before me. I guessed I needed to know something about it, at the very least to find out what it was. I read a lot. Other blog posts, Medium articles, books, and newspapers. I subscribe to numerous newsletters. SEO cropped up all the time so I dived in.…

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    Two things I struggle with every day

    But I think I may have found the answer The other evening I was in bed with my iPad in front of me.  If I take it to bed with me when I go at 6pm, which is not often, it’s because I’m playing a game or listening to my audio book, or more often than not both.  This is my downtime.   Suddenly I felt the urge to write.  This is what I wrote.  I have not touched it since I wrote it, which means it has not been edited at all, so please forgive typos etc. ‘I do my best work at night.  At least I would do.…