The Important Things in Life
I am teaching a whole bunch of writing courses in the coming months. This will roughly coincide with a two-month period where I am much more likely to show up at this blog and goof off, rather than talking about writing and publishing, because there is only so much writing and publishing talk I can take in a given week. And I largely hit that limit when I’m not talking about writing in general, and giving specific comments on work, which is a lot of what I’m doing at the moment. Critiquing work stresses me out. It also leads to a lot of goofing off, on twitter. Which has now developed into a weird daily twitter thing, with Conan references, that makes me extraordinarily happy. I am still extraordinarily proud of the October 3 entry. “Conan, what is best in life?” “…hugs. It’s hugs, right? Come on, hugs are awesome.” — Peter Ball (@Petermball) October 17, 2015 “Conan, what is