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Nicole Dieker

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Category - Thoughts and Feelings

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The Morning After

February 21, 2019
by Nicole
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I started writing NEXT BOOK this morning. I know I’d been hinting that I was going to start writing, and that I was ready to start writing, but once I knew what was going to happen with The Billfold I realized that the...

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On Being Vulnerable Online

February 14, 2019
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So… I kinda forgot that being vulnerable literally makes you vulnerable. In the “if you reveal a weakness, people will poke at it” sense. It’s not all “being honest about your own struggles...

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On Magic, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves About Magic

January 31, 2019
by Nicole
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When I was in grad school I lived in one of those group houses with a bunch of other students, and one day one of my roommates was describing some of the psychic experiences she’d had in the past, including ghosts...

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How to Live in a Dying World

January 23, 2019
by Nicole
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Okay. So on Monday I wrote about Seth Godin’s distinction between problems and boundary conditions (problems have solutions, problems with no solutions are boundary conditions you have to live with) and asked what it...

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On the Ticking Clock (and How It Affects Our Best Work)

January 22, 2019
by Nicole
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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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Problems Have Solutions (h/t Seth Godin)

January 21, 2019
by Nicole
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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...

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On Reading Nate Staniforth’s ‘Here Is Real Magic’ and Realizing Life As You Live It

March 25, 2018
by Nicole
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I was doing this interview to get a scholarship for college, it was me and something like four or five faculty members in a conference room, and I can’t remember whether they asked me if I had a philosophy of life or if I...

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This Week in Self-Publishing: On Intuition

October 20, 2017
by Nicole
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This Week Books sold: 1 ebooks, 0 paperbacks Money earned: $2.79 Money spent: $0 Total Books sold: 332 ebooks, 136 paperbacks Money earned (book sales): $1,241.14 Money earned (Patreon): $6,909 Money spent: $4,820.71 I...

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On Reading the News While Reading Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Cycle

September 27, 2017
by Nicole
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I checked Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Boys out of the library for three reasons: I love her posts on writing. I love her rules for living. Her background appears to be similar to mine in some interesting...

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