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Relevant article: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/bushido/

Don't wait for boredom before you check. For me, it's declaring something as priority for the day that otherwise wouldn't have made the cut at all. If I don't get to something, I p…

After a single week of using a physical daily planner, I realized I'd accomplished more in the previous week than I had in the past 6 months. No looking back. Every Sunday I write …

Could not possibly agree with OP more. I'm using a Field Notes 56-Week planner.

Grain of salt / what works for others won't work for you / etc. Don't leap back to school without carefully vetting whatever program has caught your attention. A lot of hoop jumpin…

This tldr isn't very accurate. And the article isn't really that long. Worth the 20-something paragraphs of time. But, to offer a slightly better summary: Voltaire earned ~ half a …

If you write every day, and you've been published at a pro-rate previously, you most likely have something near-publishable in your trunk. Obviously, the publisher needs to be disc…

It's certainly been getting better. I have no argument there.

If you're writing a lot, it's not a risk. You've got something sitting in a folder that you haven't touched in five years. Blow the dust off, polish the edges, and maybe you make a…

Your math is a little off, but you should seriously consider brushing up a bit and writing. SFF (and speculative fiction as a whole) has a diversity problem.

What's the plan for publishing? Number of pieces Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly? Selling them, or posting them free, etc. Threw your link in the "almost sfwa" submissions bucket for now,…

For a company that matches employees to employers, this is a pretty brilliant passive way of saying "Hey, look at how unexciting or terrible your job is, we can help!" Personally, …

This is a homonym, not an auto-antonym.

I see this more as "No, you're not taking it far enough. It's even more of that thing you said than how you said it," and less as an auto-antonym.

So, you think inability to focus is the cause of your interests running "hot and cold"? On medication (assuming some kind of CNS stimulant?) do you find that you're less prone to g…

I couldn't possibly argue with that.

Addicting can be used as a participle adjective. You'd be hard-pressed to find a style guide that says otherwise.

Same topic. Different Author. http://greglevenhagen.com/is-wpf-dead-no/

"Shirt Early. Shirt Often." This made me email myself a new password.