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...
Category - Thoughts and Feelings
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...