HeyJaredTruth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Observations about writing, family, and everyday absurdities.
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Manage your energy, not your time (opens the original)
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Oh, to have the discipline of a songwriter (opens the original)
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An anniversary...and other publishing milestones (opens the original)
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How I walked into the woods and onto the pages of my book (opens the original)
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I thought “shirtless man chopping wood” was just a meme—or a romance trope—until I saw it in real life this month. It was jarring, honestly, as if there were a hole in the reality/fiction multiverse. Somehow, I wound up on the summer camp set of The Epicenter of Forever, quite by accident, complete with a forest manager with a wild, neurotic dog, a zip line, canvas tent cabins, a picturesque lake, and trees afflicted by a bark beetle infestation. There were no earthquakes, for the record. But th
Playing a game of author bingo (opens the original)
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My friends and I play this long-running, nobody-wins, nobody-loses game of virtual author bingo. What are the rules? Much like in publishing, there really aren’t any. But it goes like this…When we experience something noteworthy, we get awarded a square. What do we mean by “noteworthy?” Well, it could truly be anything—good, bad, or indifferent. To be delusional enough to write a story about people you’ve made up, then try to sell it, and let other people read it? It’s a wonderful, terrible, wil
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