I needed this reminder. It’s been seven or so months since I worked on a novel, and restarting after so long is pants-wettingly terrifying. What if I’ve forgotten how to do it? What if it’s all crap? Why am I doing this anyway when I already have a full-time job and more items on my […]
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Depression hitting hard today. Nothing specific, just existential dread about the state of everyday reality and humanity, and missing being *with* people not just bodily, but in action and purpose. If you have happy memes or cute pictures or whatever, I’d be grateful. For now, I’m losing myself in Unstable Unicorns (because the artwork is
I’m back from two weeks away essentially without internet, and I need to talk about that. But first, I’ll do that thing that I ‘should’ do, which is announce that How To Create Cultures is now out and available everywhere in ebook – print release has stuck to the original date of the 17th, so
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Found this on a stumble through the archives, and it felt timely to repost. Go on. Be rebellious. You know you want to 😉 Modern Western consumer culture particularly sets us up to be in competition with each other – as men, as women, as non-binaries, as teens, as adults, in the workplace, in comparing
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Step 1: burn your diary Step 2: now you have nothing to do Step 3: congratulations, you got everything done! …If you’d like a slightly more practical approach, this was a great article I found last week about using discernment to tackle your to-dos. I suspect it will mesh nicely with The One Thing,
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This started as a side note in my post yesterday about The Crimes of Grindelwald. You probably don’t have to read it for this one to make sense since it’s mostly a review of the film, but it’s here in case you want to. Oh, the human psyche. I do this Thing in classes when
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I mean, just, like, one or two tears. But I uploaded How To Create Cultures to the printers today, and in 24-48 hours I should be able to order a physical proof copy. The book is done, you guys. The map I drew for it may have taken 5 hours to draw and process (no
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This was circulating on Twitter last week, and look, we all know it doesn’t take much for me to tear up (whether through joy or sorrow) anyway, AND the songs from the musical Wicked are pretty much guaranteed to trigger the waterworks, so it’s not really a stretch to imagine how I felt watching this
Because I Knew You, I Have Been Changed For Good Read More »
This is just about the most important lesson I’ve learned this year: fail to success. That’s Dean Wesley Smith’s way of putting it, but it’s another spin on the old saying, “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars.” Way back when, when my son had just been born and
Wow. Wow-Wow. So, as you know if you’ve been following along, I spent last week in Las Vegas for the WMG Writing Business Masterclass with a host of incredible, amazing people – participants and presenters alike. I have 50 pages of handwritten notes, an action list longer than my arm (which I need to sort
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