Posts Tagged ‘bad writing’
How Sunk Cost Keeps You Reading (and Writing) Bad Books
It often doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to stop a job or task once you start. You can’t recover what you’ve invested, so you feel obligated to keep going to avoid taking a loss. People call this sunk cost. Unfortunately, it doesn’t just apply to work. It applies to your reading list, too.…
Read MoreAre You a Bad Writer? Here’s the Truth
In my usual browse of article headlines on Feedly this morning, I stumbled across this gem from Hannah Giorgis in The Atlantic. Giorgis declared that much of what’s on Netflix these days is mediocre. In her view, we’re allowing our boredom to get the best of us when it comes to selecting what we watch. Even a…
Read MoreWhen Dracula Joins the Circus
Image by Willgard Krause from Pixabay This afternoon, I was chatting online with an old friend about books. (OK, let’s just pause and appreciate the fact he let me talk about those things with pages, shall we?) Somehow, we got on the topic of why I didn’t like vampire novels. (Power to you if you…
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