shopoholic309 asks: I only have 1000 words written for NANO. Problem? Should I give up already?
Give up? GIVE UP? On the 8th of November? When you have 22 days to go?
Think about it this way: so, you have 49,000 words left to write. Originally, you had to write approximately 1,666.6 words a day. Now you [...]

I have conveyed my hatred of graduation speeches before, but there was one graduation speech I heard that actually meant something to me. When I was at the School of the Arts at Columbia, the great philosopher Bill Murray came and spoke to us.
The gist of his speech was: “Look, people thought I was [...]