Mondays.

You can hate me if you like. Ever since I started freelancing, Sunday nights have not gotten any better; I still dislike them.  They’re all about not doing something, and instead getting ready for Monday. But I like Mondays now.  It’s this chance to reassess where I am, freelancing, and kind of start all over […]

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Mousecatching

You know, I always feel self-conscious about talking about the mice in our house, as though people are outraged that I have mice in my house.  Yet they aren’t. I think we’re moving into an endgame.  I hope. The fight against the mice is hampered by the necessity to not actually kill them; killing them

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How to Fail, Part 5: Rejections, Rejections, Rejections

I’ve talked about why failing so hard, why we aren’t failing enough, talent vs. hard work, and success. Not that I get a huge number of comments on a post or anything, but I got a lot fewer comments on the success post than I did on anything else.  People like to talk smack about

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How to Fail, Part 4: You Can’t Control Success

I’ve talked about why failing is so hard and that we need to give ourselves more opportunities to fail, if we’re going to succeed.  I’ve talked about the idea that we need to be talented writers instead of hard workers and how useless it is. Now it’s time to talk about success. What is success?

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