Writing
Notes on story, voice, and the market.
Recent essays from joanwestenberg.com, updated automatically as new posts go live. Written to be argued with.
The Heretic's Guide to Conviction
Stop Selling Your Skills. Become a Heretic For Hire.
Read on joanwestenberg.com →I Deleted My Calendar Link. And I’m Never Going Back
A Calendar Is Not a Marketplace
Read on joanwestenberg.com →5 Rules for a Second Brain You’ll Actually Use
Tend a Garden, Don't Fill a Warehouse
Read on joanwestenberg.com →Heretics for Hire
Stop Selling Your Skills. Sell Your Heresy.
Read on joanwestenberg.com →Why 500 Words Beats 5,000 in the Age of AI
Short Is the New Long
Read on joanwestenberg.com →Your Book Body-Count Is Worthless
Read Like It Matters (Because It Does)
Read on joanwestenberg.com →Never Let Yourself Graduate.
The Most Dangerous Thing School Teaches You: That Learning Ends
Read on joanwestenberg.com →You Are a Peach Tree. Beareth Thou Peaches.
Your Creative Anxiety As a Gardening Problem
Read on joanwestenberg.com →You Won't Make It. It Makes You.
In Praise of the Day-to-Day Crap
Read on joanwestenberg.com →The Case for Minimum Viable Faith
Why We Convince Ourselves We’ve Missed the Window
Read on joanwestenberg.com →Avoidance Is a Short-Term Loan with Predatory Interest
The 3 Horsemen of Not Doing S**t
Read on joanwestenberg.com →Stop Trying to Build a Unicorn. Start Cockroachmaxxing.
My Mantra: Don't Die.
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