I was a bit beswozzled by this article: A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can afford it.
I feel there are a whole load of assumptions there, including that Real Writers Rite Litry, because one hears of people who are not even Big Names in genre who have nice little earners going in the fields of genre self-publishing, like that woman ( Read more... )

I read this at the weekend and my heart, o my dr rdrz, it sank at the horrid Samuel Smiles-y self-improvement message of it all - it's like Scrooge buying Bob Cratchit a gym membership, honestly - Why You Should Work Less and Spend More Time on Hobbies -
Because there is a business case!
(Don't mind me, I'm screaming into the abyss.)
But even ( Read more... )

Retirement home for elderly sloths.
You know, after a lifetime of doing nowt much, or at least, doing what they do do very slowly: moving very slowly, digesting very slowly, and sleeping a lot, they can retire and do even less at an even less impetuous speed.
Though what this is, is apparently about freeing up space for the rising generation, and ( Read more... )

I daresay I am not the only person sighing and rolling my eyes at the intelligence that the humble and ancient art of breadmaking is being disrupted: bread-baking in America has, of late, found a friend in the unlikeliest of people: engineers, technologists, and the Silicon Valley-centric and adjacent.

I.e. blokes who need a whole lot of very ( Read more... )

Another of those pieces about getting a jump on the next day by eating into the day you're actually in -
- which sounds a bit Carrollian, though I'm not sure whether it's the Red Queen running to stay in the same spot, or the White Queen crying out before she was hurt -
- Get Started On Tomorrow Tonight If You Want Any Hope of Getting Ahead.
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Have had a link open in tabs for a few days on the grounds that, that is interesting but weird, maybe there's a DW post in that, and then there was another one I saw this morning, and I realised that there is a sort of synergy between the two of them.
Let’s Cure the Disease of Sleeping, which I suspect is written by someone who deals with the ( Read more... )

Further to the recent post on the over-scheduled life and never being off the clock, and my further thoughts about those women who had everything perfectly slotted in, home and work and exercise-to-keep-them-fit and having a space for relationship, and so on, which were along the lines of 'and one small thing goes wrong and there is a huge ( Read more... )