I started writing NEXT BOOK this morning.
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Category: Thoughts and Feelings
On Being Vulnerable Online
So… I kinda forgot that being vulnerable literally makes you vulnerable.
On Magic, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves About Magic
For better or worse, I am not in touch with the supernatural.
How to Live in a Dying World
Focus on what makes life worth living. Do that. Avoid activities or interventions that take away from that.
On the Ticking Clock (and How It Affects Our Best Work)
According to this research, as a thirty-seven-year-old highly creative and productive person, my next project might in fact be MY BEST WORK.
Problems Have Solutions (h/t Seth Godin)
Problems vs. boundaries.
On Reading Nate Staniforth’s ‘Here Is Real Magic’ and Realizing Life As You Live It
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 volunteered it, but I remember quoting Our Town: Does anyone ever realize…
This Week in Self-Publishing: On Intuition
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 just have a few more Volume 2 revisions and rewrites to make this weekend, and then I’ll be ready to move on to the next phase of the publication process….
On Reading the News While Reading Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Cycle
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 ways. Supernatural/paranormal YA is not usually my genre, but character is my genre and feelings is my genre and mythology was definitely my genre…