seanessay.com From memory: There are a million ways to escape life, and only one way to face life—Jess Lair, Ph.D. I guess we all can succumb, on occasion, to the time sink of going on the Web: Seeking to surf and distract through Twitter, Youtube and such. We all know there’s a fine line between […]
After Fifty Passionate Posts
seanessay.com It’s been fifty posts on this new blog. Now what? From my old blog site, I got into the practise of taking stock every 25 posts. My 25th new blog post, by the way, was called My 25th Experimental Post where I amused myself and others by reflecting on the various experimental writing I […]
Drug Resolution for the New Year
seanessay.com A bartender would ask me, “What’s your pleasure?” … We have all heard of millionaires in the entertainment world who break the law, doing illegal drugs, badly. On my blog I sometimes post open letters to a music millionaire, Derek Sivers, whom I came to know not from his business acumen but from his […]
Google, Culture and Kindness
seanessay.com A blog I have bookmarked, by celebrity-teacher Seth Godin, this week (Nov 22-23) has a short post on kindness, right below a short post on google. Seth’s trademark is short posts. The kindness post graphed how the word “kind” has been used in books, over the past 200 years, far, far more often than […]
My 25th Experimental Post
seanessay.com I hate to burst the bubble of any romantic would-be writers of stories, but… your main character? Make him a plumber, private eye or professional accountant. A pimp, pirate or professor of English. Anything but a writer. According to a panelist at a prose convention, “People don’t give a (blank) about writers.” Trust me, […]
Most People Don’t Do Politics
seanessay.com Remember how I posted here my comments from Athena’s blog? Her father, John Scalzi, has a blog too. He posted on Whatever last week. His point: Although John came up through journalism with a taste for politics, and although most of his friends are “political junkies,” he doesn’t expect other folks to talk politics. […]