The whole world is changing, culturally and technologically, faster than we ever thought it would. And that means the tools a writer uses to do their job are changing, too.
My mother-in-law recently called me cheap, to which I replied, “I’m frugal.” But there’s some truth in her accusation: I’m…
Living in a Lyme hotspot, the Northeast U.S., makes every trip into the woods a little bit fraught. It’s especially so this year, because the tick population exploded in the spring. …
Last year, photos of Max Patch, a grassy meadow on the Appalachian Trail, set off gasps of shock from experienced hikers. Trash was strewn everywhere. Discarded beer bottles, tents and bedding littered the clearing.
When I first glanced at the photo online, I thought the accompanying article would be about…
Last year, after a review of my business plan, I made a huge shift. Rather than negotiating different prices for different writing assignments, I set a single hourly rate and stuck to it.
And you should it, too.
Why? So you won’t starve while learning how to accurately estimate the…
When I was 19, a McDonald’s manager paid me to quit.
I was awful at my job. With the exception of the fry station, I was roundly horrible at every task I was given. I couldn’t keep up with orders on the grill. My order assembly was a disaster, always…
What’s in a headline? Almost everything, if you write it correctly. When you write a headline describing your brand-new Medium post, you’re carrying on a tradition that goes all the way back to 18th-century printers hanging their broadsheets out to dry.
But what is truly “correct” about a headline in…
I am not a confident athlete. I love playing different sports, but walking up and trying a new exercise or joining a new sport takes a monumental emotional effort on my part.
Weight training was something I wanted to get into for years. …
When I moved out of Boston in March 2020, with the pandemic at my heels, getting enough broadband bandwidth to work reliably from home wasn’t the biggest worry on my mind.
It wasn’t even too big of a concern a half-year earlier, when I’d started looking for a house to…
This guy is going in one of my novels someday, I thought, as I sat across the table from him in the upstairs section of an otherwise empty, dark-paneled Chinese restaurant, watching him berate the waitress.
“This isn’t the dish I ordered. I wanted a lobster sauce, not a lobster…
I’ve become a devotee of the coffee nap.
I used to nap daily for 60 to 90 minutes, stretching out on the sofa in my apartment with the TV turned off and the curtains drawn shut. It was something I’d picked up on my own during my days working in…
