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01.12.07
We Don’t Maybe Not Love It Slightly Less When Our Friends Become Successful
posted by Absinthe | 2:59 PM
In many ways there’s nothing better than writing for a living. Or, if not for a living, at least getting paid for it – putting words on paper in exchange for cash is a great feeling. When the check finally arrives. If it clears. After you’ve taken out what you owe for rent, bills, and laid more away for a staggering tax bite.
Okay, in most ways there’s nothing worse than writing for a living. Practically all of them. The only reason to do it is if you find yourself wholly unsuited to anything else. That’s why I have great hopes for this poker thing.
You never forget the first thing you write for money. You may wish to, given that if you start early enough, the first thing you write for money will be among the worst. I will never forget mine. I will also never, ever even remotely come close to telling anyone what it is; suffice it to say I wrote it in 7th grade. (This wouldn’t be my first “published” work, even; that would be a simple but novel strike-sign slogan I spouted – probably reflexively – while at my mother’s teachers’ union meeting, back in the late ’70s when I was but a wee lad. A saboteur from birth!)
Anyway. A number of friends and relations have jobs or new works in print worth a look. First, there’s a slew of semi-pro bloggers now on the payroll over at PokerWorks, including Joe Speaker, Change100, Grubby, Maudie and everyone’s favorite wearer of cowboy hats.
Secondly, pal Neal Pollack has just released his bazillionth book, an early memoir of hipster parenthood called Alternadad, which I’m sure will be of great use to me in my quest to become a decent dad and, more importantly, hip. His blog features many, many stories about his son Elijah, a little Tasmanian Devil who may be the Dalai Lama of Dada. Go forth and purchase so Neal has more money to lose to me at poker.
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January 13, 2007 at 12:52 AM