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My agent just read my current book draft. She says I have way, way, way too much content. *Urp!* I need to trim down the quantity and make it flow much more smoothly. Hey, I went to one of those schools that was like "taking a drink from a firehose." If you don't have...

I'm collecting beliefs about time management and making daily progress. Could you share your beliefs with me? These are simply the "conventional wisdom" that you now take for granted. These beliefs may or may not be true, the key element is that we no longer question...

I follow lots of people on Twitter, many of whom I followed reflexively after they followed me, before it got infeasible to do that. I've noticed there seem to be a few different kinds of twitterers: Redirectors. People whose tweets mainly serve to point me to other...

I've been reading a lot recently about the fundamental unknowability of the universe. I'd like to include a tip or two in my book on the topic, but truly, I'm at a loss. So I'm turning to you, in the hopes you can share some ideas. When we're doing something we've...

There are many places in my book where I change names to protect the innocent (or guilty), or where I am just telling a made-up story and need a character name. I've been going through my list of gender-neutral names, in an attempt to let readers indulge their own...

As you know from listening to my podcast, I like to use unbiased language whenever I can. That's language that is as free from gender assumptions as possible. The APA has explicit guidelines for how to do this. You can find them here: http://is.gd/prz4 in the section...

I have been slogging through editing my pre-first-draft for several weeks now. It's been hellish. You see, I wrote the first 150 pages of the book using dictation software. The theory was: I can speak extemporaneously and create excellent, well-thought-out, coherent...