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flexagon ([personal profile] flexagon) wrote2006-05-16 04:33 pm

Doing things without ever really deciding to

To my surprise, I have figured out how to nicely print a quarter-sized booklet and I have 12 pages of a quarter-sized zine about money... or is it about thinking about money... and the opposite of writer's block. (I haven't even
put any quotes in yet, and I have a lot of good money quotes). For me, this is definitely a "hold your wrist over the paper and open a vein" kind of topic. It's interesting to write so much nonfiction at once.

So far, it's 2 stories, 2 mini-essays (including a version of my old tithing at Starbucks entry from last year), one rant, and a list of recommendations and references. I don't have a title, but it's basically stories and thoughts from both sides of an economic divide. I'm going to try to balance it between before/after/during, and personal recollections vs. essays. So far it's not a primer on basic personal finance though... that's the one thing I'm planning to (mostly) resist.

I've figured out a good way to print so that it'll be easy to make a quarter-size booklet, but I haven't figured out the binding, so that's probably the next thing to think about. I'll expect I'll probably daydream for a while and then just buy a stapler. I expect that's probably what most people do.