“You KNOW the sheik who is holding my husband hostage! You also know he’s not a patient man. God only knows what he’s doing to my husband right now. So I don’t have the time. What I want you to do is call the network affiliate in Morocco and get a camera crew here right away.” [...]
A secret way for people who aren’t naturally logical to organize their writing as if they are. Why is writing so hard, and why does it take so long? Writing is not hard. Writing is fun. Riffing, rambling, and brainstorming are like skinny-dipping for your brain. What most people find hard is not writing, but [...]
When people have large, expensive failures, they like to say they paid tuition for an integer-followed-by-shameful-number-of-zeroes education. I like it. While it doesn’t make me feel any better about losing integers followed by zeroes, it does help me to accept the lesson and move on. People who have lost houses probably tell themselves this. I tell [...]
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