This is the second part of a three-part series wherein we’re talking about the dynamic content on your website. This is all about the pieces of writing that you have to do over and over again. The material that needs to be fresh each week. I want to systemize them so that they come easily. [...]
The editor-author relationship can be a beautiful collaboration. Or it can be a contemptuous tug of war. In the best of times, editors nurture talent and provide emotional as well as editorial support. They keep your secrets. And when you ask them, on your deathbed, to burn all your remaining notebooks (a la Franz Kafka) [...]
You might have noticed I haven’t posted an article or sent an email in two weeks. What happened? I don’t know. Or maybe you didn’t notice. You get a thousand emails a day, more or less. If you’re anything like me, you probably scroll through just slowly enough so that they all are marked as [...]