After Twenty Years
You'll never understand the workings of interest rates, but over time—
notice how you don't have kids with which to bother, or a spouse, seeing as
you've been slightly focused on your work—your savings will grow and grow
and grow. You'll get more book deals, and a chance to leave the trailer in
order to speak to people at colleges. They'll pay you more money than the
magazines, somehow. And you'll speak at writers' conferences, even though
you never even attended one over the years.
You never attended because A) they cost way too much money; and B) you
wrote over that time instead of talked about writing.
Via Hacker News, HOW TO
WRITE STORIES … and lose weight, clean up the environment, and make a million
dollars.
It sounds like good advice, and it's certainly a shorter read than Stephen King's On
Writing.
I just didn't realize writing involved picking up so many aluminum
cans.
I'll have to ask my friend Hoade about that …
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