Big Fat Words
A curiosity-powered content studio for writing, creativity, and the occasional wandering thought.
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The Second Question
Let’s face it: we do some things in life because we have to and some things because we want to.
When it comes to your career, the perfect world is where those come together like a beautiful Venn diagram.
The differences fascinate me. Host...
You Are Not The Person Who Started Reading This
The social media message was unexpected, which added to the delight it brought me. Danielle said she’d read the first book I ever wrote, a young adult science fiction story called Comet’s Curse, when she was 14.
Now, at 35, she’d just fini...
You Are Someone’s Dying Smoke Alarm
I recently read the novel “Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St. John Mandel. And she had a line that stopped me cold. I re-read it a couple of times.
There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a ce...
Getting Rid of My Books
We go through two distinct phases in our adult life:
The first two-thirds is spent acquiring stuff.
The rest is spent trying to unload most of it.
I am squarely in purge mode. I can’t walk into a room without inwardly sighing, taking in...
Never Great at Anything
On a recent podcast, the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, made an interesting point.
He said he was never great at anything—but he had a lot of range.
It was one of those moments where I paused the interview and sank into thought. Because...
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Writing—any creative outlet, for that matter—can be a mental minefield. Author Dom Testa can help a little bit.
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