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Life Mining by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm + Why love blogs? + Podcast

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4 min readJan 26, 2024

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Image of Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm by her friend, artist/poet/writer Đinh Trường Chinh, whose work is featured throughout Trâm’s site.

Why do you read, follow, and maybe even write blogs? In my case, it began with hoping to discover fellow readers and writers who love the kind of stuff I do, while I wrote some books and now seek a literary agent…

There’s fear-mongering galore when it comes to the idea of starting a blog. In my case, aside from the rare instance when I decide to click a comment into spam, I’ve had nothing but great experiences. Perhaps it would have been riskier if I were still dating (am I the only one who connected with a slew of terrible people who tried to scare me into staying with them?). Or maybe it’s riskier for high schoolers, who I hear can be online-viscious to each other? I’m careful to not use my last name and not list my address — but I don’t entertain illusions. Any more, privacy and…

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Novelist/Blogger/Podcaster. More great stuff at HappinessBetweenTails.com

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