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...decorous tone to relate the weightier thematic content of confronting Lescaze’s son’s untimely death and Lescaze’s own terminal bout with cancer that’s more like a New York Times Sunday Styles “Modern Love” column than sex blog-cum-novel. Perhaps the time is ripe for this kind of thing: when even a lowly Senate staffer can get herself fired by blogging about her office trysts and then garner a reported six-figure book deal for the novelization, and when a compendium...
...year-old author who earned a two-book deal from Random House before his Harvard degree. Not to mention Rich’s arguably greater distinction last month, when the New Yorker published three pieces from “Ant Farm” in its humor column. Among Harvard writers, only John Updike ’54 managed to publish in the magazine at an earlier age.Rich and Updike are, not incidentally, both former presidents of the Harvard Lampoon. (Crimson form, tradition, and a tinge of institutional jealousy demand that I now describe the ’Poon...
...important to have mental rehearsals of unusual circumstances that may occur during performance. You must prepare for adversity by imagining yourself being faced with difficulties and overcoming them. For example, athletes often visualize themselves trying to compete while being injured. I visualize myself trying to write my column with a broken keyboard. I then envision myself overcoming the fact that my “s” key has mysteriously stopped working and still managing to produce a respectable article. Thi$ i$ a really effective $trategy that will help you prepare for adver...
...several different types of goals, and that you should try to set a target in each of these categories. The first type is called “outcome goals,” where you focus on a result of an event. My outcome goal for all of my columns is to have my readers laugh more at my writing than they do at my photo. The next category is “performance goals,” which should focus on comparing yourself with your past performances. It is critical that you concentrate this goal on yourself only, directing your...
...final goal type is called a “process goal.” This goal should focus on the actions you must take during performance in order to achieve success. The process goal that I set before writing each column is to make sure to include a predetermined “funny” word that will surely enhance the humor of my piece. I choose a new word for every column, and it must be used at all costs even if it makes no sense in the context of the article and leaves the readers scratching their heads...