Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Writing on Jul 18th, 2008
It took me a while to come around on the importance of editing. When I first started writing, I thought that all I needed was to “inspire myself” and jot everything down in a flurry of creative energy. Sure, editing was good to catch typos and play with some commas, but otherwise I felt like [...]
Posted in Creativity, Writing on Jul 8th, 2008
Anne Lamott’s book, Bird by Bird, has a great chapter called Shitty First Drafts that’s all about getting over those internal voices that tell writers that what we’re writing sucks. The essay is all about accepting those voices, realizing that they’re going to be there for as long as you’re doing something creative, and then [...]
Posted in Creativity, Writing on May 2nd, 2008
Writing that title made me feel like I was penning the sequel to The Secret or something. Like I was going to write something akin to “Just follow this simple formula and all your writing block problems will be forever solved!”
Which isn’t what I’m saying but I am saying that it’ll definitely help you the [...]
Posted in Investing, Money and Relationships on Apr 9th, 2008
I was reading a post by JD over at Get Rich Slowly yesterday that got me thinking about the way I build my savings. Right now I put in a monthly amount into a general savings pile in my ING account. Any extra money laying around goes into that pile, and I’m hoping that [...]
As I’ve stated before, my reasons for starting this blog were to a) get published and b) get a job in advertising. Yesterday I was on the bus reading and an idea hit me for a blog post: rewriting is very important, I jotted down in my Moleskine (for more on the importance of jotting [...]
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