The title of this series should actually be Another awesome fucking person who was cooler than me and who I wanted to be like that helped me, but whatever. I got an unpaid job writing for a fashion magazine back in 2005. On the day I started, the editor, Fiona (yep, another fucking awesome person who helped me and yep, who was…
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The post I wrote here yesterday was crap. One of the reasons I started this blog was to improve my writing. I figure if you do something every day, every day, every day, without fail you get better at it. But yesterday’s post was some all-star bullshit. I meant it all, but pretty sure it was my writing here yet. Good writing is…
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Every writer who’s afraid to be honest, holds back or tries to sound smarter or wiser than they actually are is shit. The author of Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott, has a bunch of voices in her head when she writes. One voice says, ‘Well that’s not very interesting, is it?’, another persecutes her for her crazy thoughts, another is her parents…
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VICE does good work. And it’s cool too. But I’ve never thought the trendiness or coolness, whatever that is, is what defines it. It’s the investigative journalism and trying to get to the truth that does. But I would say that though, wouldn’t I, because when I interned at VICE USA in New York in 2007, everyone there was at least…