Blog Category: Writing

I plagiarized. I stole from another text, word for word, and I did not give credit. The article I wrote was shared everywhere and got millions of page views. I did this several times. Many times. I still do it. Nobody notices. I was writing for TechCrunch, a blog about entrepreneurship. I wrote about the […]

When you land in Dallas, they hand out conspiracy theories at the airport. JFK was shot in the throat. Then shot in the head. But who did it? On the Uber from the airport, the Uber driver told us, “JFK switched his route at the last minute so THEY called ahead to see if anyone […]

Maria had a crush on Mark. But Mark was going out with Jen. And I had a crush on Maria but I thought I was too worthless for her. Mark wanted to be a writer. He read James Joyce and could quote Thomas Pynchon. He had a beard. He wanted to write “The Great American […]

I was thrown out of graduate school because I thought women would only like me if I published a novel. So every day, starting in 1990, I wrote 3,000 words a day. I’d go up to girls in bars and ask if I could read to them. 100% of them would say no. Or laugh […]

In the Choose Yourself Publishing Group, I post a new book challenge approximately once a month. [Get access to the Group here.] The idea of each challenge is: The book can be done in a month The book doesn’t have to be big (30-50 pages is fine for a self-published book. More of course is […]

A big thanks to “Wealthy Gorilla” for collecting these 29 quotes that inspired him from my writing. It was nice to be reminded of some of the things I’ve written over the years. So I’m sharing them below. — 1.) “Always say to yourself, I’d rather be healthy than right. Because the infection of someone […]

I was sick of it. Every book publisher (Wiley, Penguin, HarperCollins, Hay House, etc.) said the same thing: “We’re great at marketing. We’ll take care of it for you.” Then when it came time to publish the book, they all said something like, “So I guess you should start tweeting it out. We don’t do […]