Once upon a time, I blogged every day. I had a string of crappy jobs while also an extremely minor and ultimately short-lived basic cable micro-celebrity. I mostly used it as a notebook for developing joke premises into jokes which I would then see on late night talk shows in the mouths of other comedians, some I knew personally.
I was also struggling with a drinking problem which I not deal with directly, and all this means that I was not just blogging, I was mechanically writing every day to escape. As far as escapes go, it was a fairly productive one. So no complaints. I could have rewritten more. But that’s alright.
Anyway. All of this is to say that I’m in a very different place, and now with my life being as big and busy as it is, the only way I can motivate myself to write more is if there’s a chance I will make money from it. Hence, I’m committing to writing (I think) two posts a week. One will remain free, like this one. it will be written when I get a chance.
The other will g…
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