Keepin’ it short
Oh, hi friends!
Do the thing today you’ll be glad you did tomorrow.
“When I was seven months pregnant, the company sold for a lot of money. I got a very tiny amount of it, but I put it away. A year later, I used that money to get a babysitter. So, for three hours a day, three days a week, I just wrote.
...I had to work really fast and hard to get up to speed to where I thought a 34-year-old journalist should be. I would be disappointed if a day went by and I hadn’t completed something.”
I’ve recommended many of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s profiles on this newsletter, so I was especially glad to see her installment of The Cut’s “How I Get It Done” column detailing her journey from soap opera magazine writer to New York Times Magazine and GQ features writer.
I also appreciate this tidbit of advice: "But when I am crazy stressed, my form of mindfulness practice is to make a list of things I have to do and only do one thing at a time. I also cry and I yell sometimes.”
On last New Year’s Eve, I saw the musical Hundred Days at New York Theatre Workshop. I’ve thought of that show many times since. So glad that the original cast recording was just released!!! Listen on Spotify. (My favorites right now are “I Will Wait for You,” “Hundred Days,” and “Bells," which they perform above.)
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara