So I keep telling myself that NEXT BOOK doesn’t have to be good. I mean, obviously, I want it to be good. I’m going to try my hardest for it to be good, which is to say that I’m going to try my hardest to do...
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This week is going to be a “things I’m thinking about” week, so let’s start with a recent Seth Godin blog post called Problems and Boundaries: All problems have solutions.That’s what makes them...
So this week I want to look at worldbuilding, mostly because that’s where I’m at in terms of THE NEXT BOOK. Unlike The Biographies of Ordinary People, where the world of the story was not only...
I’m going to close out this week’s discussion of THE WORK and THE LIFE by suggesting you read Lauren DePino’s “In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure,” at Longreads: It didn’t take long...
I remember exactly where I was (in my dorm room, in college) when I realized that sending a birthday card was not a single-step task. First, you needed a birthday card. A blank card could do in a pinch, or a thank-you card...
So I want to spend the rest of this week discussing two things: THE WORK and THE LIFE. These are both topics that will take more than two days to discuss, of course, so I will undoubtedly come back to them in the future...