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How to be a writer (Patreon)

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2018-05-25 14:00:00
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2024-02

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Dr. Kirk Honda talks with Paulette Perhach about her upcoming book, Welcome to the Writer's Life. 


The Psychology In Seattle Podcast. 


May 25, 2018.


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Music by Bread Knife Incident.  


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Anonymous

Getting good with money is mostly a matter of organization and self-denial. It's important to keep a strictly adhered to monthly budget on a site like Mint (which is free). Also, it may be ironic, but what taught me to be better with money, more than anything else, was reading Marx. This idea that commodities have a use-value and exchange-value, that what you plan on using something for vs what it costs to buy and sell it are entirely different things, really changed my perspective. Any time you feel like buying something, it pays to ask yourself "What am I going to use this for? What do I actually plan on doing with it? Is it any more or less useful than other things I own or could buy?" Capitalism works very hard to get you to fetishize commodities (literally what Marx called it, "commodity fetishism") and you should work against it. Also, my strategy was to keep my artistic pursuits as separate from making money as possible. The idea of writing for money depresses me, I'd much rather just have a day job and retain that freedom, or keep it "pure." This is likely an excuse not to try in some cases, but that's been how I've approached it. I guess it shows, most of my day job is paperwork and bookkeeping for a construction company, while I still do a little writing in my free time. I still read all the time, that's more what I got out of majoring in English lit in the long run.