I’ve hinted before that climate change is one element of NEXT BOOK, which feels a little odd to write because at this point it’s like saying NEXT BOOK will include air, or food. NEXT BOOK, though technically a fantasy...
Category - What I’m Reading
Yesterday I asked whether “does it make money” should be a factor in determining a creative work’s success. This, by the way, is one of the oldest questions in the book, we were debating it back in grad...
I told you some of these would be about money, since I’ve been writing about personal finance for the past seven years — and, arguably, I wouldn’t be making the money I do on my creative work without the personal...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I read Meg Howrey’s The Wanderers last week. To say that it was a book that made me forget the rest of the world existed might be a little on the nose, if you know what the story’s about, but I haven’t been...
The thing about Twitter is that no one who uses it needs an explanation of why it is the worst. It is an endlessly self-renewing bonfire of outrage and confusion, and in order to sustain that bonfire it converts bullshit into...