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I am coming upon my third full month as a full-time, at-home employee of myself. Here is what I’ve learned: 1. There is no greater accomplishment in life than getting out of bed early/on time for absolutely no reason. I know. I did it once about two months ago, and I’m still living off the glory. 2. The difference between a totally productive and miserably …

On Tuesday I sat on the couch and watched TV from 4:30pm until 8:30pm. It was mostly episodes of House Hunters and Property Virgins because I decided that counts as research for if/when I can ever afford to buy a house, but at the end I got sucked into a Vh1 re-run of Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT, and that’s not technically applicable to my …

Just one week after leaving my paying job to be a full-time writer, I attended a beautiful wedding. At that beautiful wedding I met many lovely people. Most of those people asked me what it is that I do. Here’s how that typically went: Person: So what is it that you do? Me: I’m a writer. Person: Oh very cool. What do you write? Me: …

Yesterday was my first official day as a full-time writer. Well, technically it was Friday but I had to celebrate being a full-time writer all day Friday, so things officially kicked-off yesterday. Here is how I organized my endless hours of freedom. 6:30AM: I was awoken by R who had been up for a half an hour already. He tried to start talking to me …

My writing career is taking some exciting baby steps forward, and in the world of a writer that exciting baby step comes in the form of “general meetings.”  Here in L.A. we just call them “generals” because why say a whole extra word, especially if that extra word lets outsiders into the secret of what we mean by “generals.” General meetings are meetings with no …