An instant mood booster (no drugs involved)
When I’m Spinning in Circles or Annoyed by the Subway or Crazed with Too Many Choices, I Start Maniacally Listing (in My Head) Things I’m Grateful For
Holiday weekends. Injury-free miles. Softly scrambled eggs. Good people. Lacrosse balls. Sun, always the sun. Freedom. Friends. Books I’ve yet to read. Brothers. The ability to make choices. The last season of Girls. Kind editors. Brass rings. Parents. Bacon. Vision boards. Real talk. Big talk. Life talks. Borough blocks I’ve yet to walk down. Grandparents. Little failures. Junior’s cheesecake. The Daily Beast. The health of my family. New friends. The Homecoming podcast. People who give a shit. Clarity. California friends. Shopping in an empty Target. Stoop sales. The ability to wake up and live another day.
“A lot of writing is just intuitively lurching away from that which bores you, or that which feels like it might, uh, suck. One good compositional approach is to steer toward the fun—that which you can do easily and with relish and joy.”
Now considering getting a "steer toward the fun" tattoo. This advice comes from the writer George Saunders, who was lucky to be interviewed by the wise and perceptive Sarah Begley for TIME. Read her Q&A here.
Hiring & Looking & Pitching
The Muse is hiring a Senior Manager, Social Media Marketing. (h/t Stacey Lastoe)
Mark Gimein, an editor at the Village Voice, is looking for smart, style-driven features about politics and culture, and open to reporting from around the country, not just NYC. Details for pitching here. (h/t Heath Brockwell)
The New York Times has one billion open positions right now. I applied to be the theater critic! YOLO. (h/t Carrie Seim)
USA Today is hiring a Branded Content editor. (h/t Jenn Franklin)
The View is hiring an associate producer with video production experience to work on digital video and Hot Topics. Interested parties, please email Nathan Geddie nateexo@gmail.com for full details!
Thank you for reading.
Love, Kara