Living an Asymmetrical Life: The Gib Publishing Years
Living an Asymmetrical Life • Hotel @nyware • The Publishing Years Write? Right! Blogging is literature in a hurry. I like writing. I do not like the paperwork. So I built a machine that turns motion into manuscripts, field notes into books, and lived experience into a library. The Confession The Last Chapter Was Never a Place The sea years gave me horizons. The war years gave me consequence. The pandemic years gave me silence. The publishing years gave me a filing problem. I have always liked the writing part: the first sentence, the true sentence, the paragraph that finally stops pretending and tells the truth. What I do not like is the paperwork: metadata, categories, ISBNs, descriptions, links, covers, uploads, dashboards, sales pages, and all the little administrative barnacles that attach themselves to a book after the voyage. Blogging is literature in a hurry. Publishing is literature waiting in line a...
