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The urge to complicate things is almost endless. There is always the hope that adding another layer will make it cleaner, easier, smoother. That if only you did this other thing, it would all magically work. We want there to be a shortcut. There has to be a shortcut. Sadly,
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I’ve been really swamped at my day job for the last few months, and, surprise, my routines have suffered. But a huge project I was working on just ended, and things should revert to something like normal. But the end result is my writing practice has suffered. I have
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It’s always a balance – I make a portion of my income from my writing, including the weekly newsletter and this blog, and so I try to treat them like a business. Confession: I suck at treating things like a business. I’m just not very motivated by money, as
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(This is a weeknote: a weekly update of the behind-the-scenes work and thinking that goes into being an independent web publisher. You can read past weeknotes here) In Consistency is Easier Than You Think, CJ Chilvers writes about how consistency wins, more often than not. What I love, and what
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Let me tell you the backstory behind this post. A few months back, I was holding office hours for people on the membership team. I mentioned the wide-ranging projects I am working on that they are supporting, and I jokingly called it my empire. He laughed and said I was
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There are some authors who were made for audiobooks. They are more spoken word artists than true writers. Rick Bragg is one of them. Another is David Sedaris. Like many people, my introduction to Sedaris was through This American Life, when he reads excerpts every Christmas from his essay The