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When you wait for a “somebody,” you’ll be a nobody. Bukowski wrote every day for twenty years without any hope of publishing. He sent out his poems to the smallest literary journals. He’d give readings in bars and classrooms on his own dime. Finally, John Martin from Black Sparrow Press offered to pay him $100 […]

I lost 2000 two dollar bills. I had them in a backpack. Perhaps it’s ironic that the backpack was a gift from Q&A website Quora where I was a “top writer” for 2015. I can answer questions all day long but maybe nobody should listen to someone who loses 2000 $2 bills. In any case, […]

I thought I had to put my life on hold until I wrote and published a novel. Then I can finally take the job I wanted. First I need to be something special, I thought. Mistakenly. I turned down three great jobs. I was more and more miserable. I wrote four novels. Nobody would publish […]

Someone asked this on Quora. I answered. I am sorry to say that some of what I’ve written below, I’ve written before. Some of you have read it. That’s ok. Again, I always say this is what worked for me. Some people might say, “ugh, he’s written some of this before.” Sometimes I am not […]

The other day, two potential leaders of the free world were insulting each other about the size of their hands (and the sexual tendencies that hand size might predict.) So…. Are these masters of intelligence, with their grasp of world issues and sexual euphemisms really needed in our modern society? Did the Founding Fathers have […]

If you were my boss, I was constantly trying to kiss your ass. I would try to impress you every day. I was not me anymore. I was a reflection of what you wanted me to be.  This was when I hated myself the most. “Why don’t you just write the truth! Your boring life growing […]

I’m not a big believer in the future. I mean, it will exist—we know that. But that’s about it. CXO Advisory Group has analyzed the predictions of hundreds of pundits. Are the talking heads on TV right or wrong? You know, the ones who say Ebola will end the world, or the ones who said […]