What I Read & Wrote & Loved in April

Hey everyone,

Once again April flew by in a hurricane of travel and trying to keep the house clean. I really don’t know how it happens that my house gets so dirty when I’m not even in it, but it seem like my first task back at home is always vacuuming. Anyone else experience this?

Anyway. I’m excited to bring you this month’s What I Read & Wrote & Loved. Hope you’re doing well, wherever you are.

Things I Read & Loved

• Do you want to be known for your writing, or for your swift email responses? This one made me feel so much better about the fact that my inbox is a perpetual mess.

• This deeply personal look at rediscovering sex after getting sober.

• Also, re: sobriety is this piece on the rise of traveling-while-sober.

• Apparently, people were very upset about Matthew Perry’s comments about Keanu Reeves in his recent memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. Perry is now promising to remove the comments about Reeves when the memoir is republished, proving that even publication isn’t the end of editing.

• This exhibit of Toni Morrison’s papers at Princeton reveals so much about the author.

• How Hans Zimmer scores movies and writes music. Incredible.

• These final letters from a Polish ghetto are basically guaranteed to make you cry.

• Advice on how to work with beta readers! So necessary if you’re writing a novel.

• As always, I love what

  Kat Lewis
  has to say about crafting a story. This post is all about forming Act 1.

• Are these 10 film adaptations truly “much worse” than the books they’re based on? Sound off in the comments.

Some Things I Published

• Reconsidering the Condiment Bar in Fresh Cup

• The Greatest Pirate that Ever Lived in Work/Craft/Life

• Unruly Interviews: Neal Bascomb in Unruly Figures

And that’s it for April! I wrote more, but publication dates are always up to the whims of publishers, so we’ll see those things when we see them. I, for one, can’t wait.