“Terrifying.” This is my usual answer when anyone asks me how the writing is going. “It’s terrifying.” Writing a book is terrifying. Opening your life up to total strangers is one of the…
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A little over a year ago a very nice woman named Debra found my blog and asked if I wanted to write a book about yoga. Seriously? Yes! I always wanted to write a…
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A Post Every Day Until I'm Fifty Bent: the Book LifeYears From Now, Whenever I Think of Writing This Book, I Will Think of Donald Trump.
The week my editor first contacted me about writing a book was the same week Donald Trump announced he was running for president. It was June, 2015. I had a friend whose father died…
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This is a running list of babble I’ve written that sounded super clever at the time, but I’ve since figured out it’s either a) not, b) completely irrelevant or c) according to my editor,…
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I was writing something just now about names you might find in a fable, like Jane or Henry, then I realized: I have no idea what fables I got those names from. So I…
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I keep a list of words and stuff that I want to fit into Bent somewhere. They’re especially awesome when I look at them out of context. Here are some, in no particular order: Pabst…
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I was just looking for inspiration for a piece on Happiness I’m writing. I found this from Charles Bukowski. Damn. Bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m…
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I’m updating my computer to something called “The Captain” or something like that because I desperately need Word to write this book and because Ronna made fun of me for using Google Docs. And…
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This, from “Adulthood is a Myth” by Sarah Andersen. Exactly. Except I wouldn’t be nervous, like in the second one, because I’ve been talking like that my whole life, and unless I was actually…
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This is the advice you get when you’re married to a sound engineer. I was sitting outside with Mauro, taking a break from writing. He asked me how it was going, and I said…