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How to Tell When Your Work Actually Isn’t Good vs. A Distortion from Perfectionism
As per my plan, last week I finished a complete draft of my children’s book. And as I wrote its final line I paused, gave a slight nod, and said out loud, “Well, I sure do hate this.” I’ve always loved the first third of this book. I’ve always loved the second third. I’ve never […]
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Juggling vs. Hyperfocusing
My journey to publish 100 books has, thus far, meant a lot of juggling. For the past now five months I’ve been working on 5+ projects simultaneously. My brain works that way and thrive with the juggle. But coming off a week where I feel like I didn’t make enough positive progress on books — […]
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The Perils of Tool Overload and the Paradox of Productivity Apps
As I was publishing my second book, I found writing a post on this site, posting the book on my publishing site, sending an email announcement through a different app, publishing the files on Dropbox, adding those links to the welcome email for my other newsletter on yet another site, then setting up the print […]
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Book 2: Nonfiction and Published
Today I published my second book. It’s called The Simpsons Season 1 Retrospective. I started writing it a few years back with the intention to offer it as an incentive for people to sign up for my ’80s and ’90s newsletter, The Retro. I’m still planning to distribute it that way, though now the book […]
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Keeping the Momentum Going on Vacation
Last week (last Friday, to be exact), I headed out for a family vacation. We were on a boat through Thursday; then the vacation didn’t really end until last night when everyone said goodbyes and headed home. So that was 10 days where I was out of my routine and not focused on my books. […]