

As such, external forces do not drive my gifts, nor the gifts of any writer I know. Dealing with the after-effects of Long Covid, I barely drink at all anymore. It was a joke play on a Hemingway ethos-done by 12, drunk by 3-but I don’t know anyone who actually does that outside of vacation.

So opening my heart and soul on the internet to people I don’t know intimately? Yes, that’s challenging.īut being challenged is different than loathing something.įor the middle, Drink: My creativity and spirituality are not driven by substances. Letting people in has always been difficult for me. I love the art, and the audio, and the planning, and the plotting.Īnd when I say a complicated relationship, it’s mostly because I am an introvert. I love being surrounded by the creativity that goes into modern marketing. I enjoy working with my teams to find the best paths to get books out of my head and into your hands. I have a complicated relationship with social media and marketing, yes, but if I actually loathed it, I wouldn’t do it. Primarily because there is nothing I loathe about my job. That joking title simply doesn’t fit anymore. My personal life.Īnd it has such negative connotations-as was pointed out by a smart friend recently. But so much has changed over the past decade. About the realities of publishing and my journey through the writing life.īack then, TDL was a flip, cute title that examined the three sections of my writing life: Type = Writing. Yes, I’m debating writing a book about writing. It is the former title of a writing book that started in my Murderati days. Type, Drink, Loathe has been a part of my lexicon for more than a decade. For years, I’ve been working behind the scenes on a project I’ve called jokingly Type, Drink, Loathe.
