writing
#449: I hate my job, I’m broke, my commute sucks, and I maybe want to be a writer.
Hi Captain! My main question is: how do I keep going? I have 99 problems, I need to fix at least 95 of them but right now I can’t even seem to fix 1 so I am stuck. I’ve been actively job-hunting for over a year now. I know others have it worse, either through […]
#321: Artistic Discouragement
Dear Captain of the Awkward Army, I have recently decided to do something about my lifelong dream to be a professional writer. I still have a non-creative-writing job that makes money (well, a paying internship, but close enough), but I am trying to spend more and more of my free time writing fiction, editing, and […]
See, Penelope Trunk is awesome at helping you write resumes.
Even though I sometimes have issues with Penelope Trunk, like when she basically tells young women to become Betty Draper except with an MBA, she often says amazing, true stuff. I also love her willingness to be vulnerable and brutally honest about things like mental illness. I think the stories you tell about your life […]
The State Religion is Constant Self-Improvement
Bookslut writes about Judith Warner’s column on “yoga memoirs” like she took the words right out of my mouth. “It was with joy/frustration/hilarity that I read, then, Judith Warner’s piece in the New York Times about the rise of the yoga memoir. And how it ties into the death of feminist political action, because all […]
The power of vulnerability
I just watched this TED talk by Brene Brown (thanks to Between Those Things). I’m a total geek for TED. The internet is amazing. We live in amazing times. I press a few buttons and books come to my house. I press a few more and I get to sit at the feet of […]
