Assignment: A deadly boring piece on social media for authors. For my company blog. 

Location: Philz Coffee (aka “The Office”). 

Where my head went:

• The New Pornographers
• Betsy Lerner
• Joan Didion
• My Linkedin Profile

Why? I wrote this whole piece listening to the 5 songs I liked from The New Pornographer’s most recent (and very strong) album “Together.” Which is catchy beyond all get-out but makes one’s prose sound like its being chanted by a marching band.  Which is a flipped-coin worse than how I feel my writing normally sounds which is fussy, over phrased and lustfully stringing together depended clauses. Made me wish I could write like Joan Didion who never seems to have a word or phrase out of place, like a set of pearls on a string. And I was mad anyway, because I had to write this essay but there really isn’t anything new to add to the discussion. Betsy Lerner’s great piece for Publishing Perspectives really said it all. 

When I’m restless these days, I spend too much time searching jobs on Linkedin. Because I’m on the market. Picture me a horse pawing at the dirt. There’s a fence to leap over somewhere. I’m looking for it.