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Fail = win

July 4, 2009

Yesterday I submitted a personal essay to an online pop culture magazine.
It wasn’t great.
I worked on it for weeks, reading, researching, and writing, changing the approach, editing, and rewriting; but I just never quite hit a stride. Parts of it sound okay, but the overall flow, well, isn’t. The middle is thin. I rewrote the [...]

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Sometimes you can’t jump; sometimes you need to be pushed

March 18, 2009

You know, I had a whole post ready to go up on Thursday morning. This was going to be the first time that I would get a second post up in a week as scheduled. I had been compelled by an email from a friend and a fortuitous web of link-following to write that post. [...]

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I’m writing a book

February 1, 2009

For much of the past week, I have been stuck in the mind-numbing quagmire of routine and repetition that is jury selection.
In addition to bestowing upon me the newfound identity of Juror #5 on an upcoming case (on which I can’t elaborate obviously), the selection process provided me with some much-appreciated reading time, during which [...]

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