Contradictheory: Writing off the top of your head is kind of liberating

When you get a text message from your editor after you’ve submitted your article for the week, it means one of two things: praise, or a request to write another one. Guess which one it was this week?

Anyway, that means the 900-something words that I had written earlier in the week will now be let loose into the ether. That’s what my social media presence is: ethereal. I mean, it’s the risk of the job that sometimes your work is rejected. I’m cool with that.