I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.
Write a million words before thinking about getting published.
I grew up in a family where no one had written a newspaper or magazine article about anybody in my family for a hundred years, right? Then, all of a sudden, we're getting one millennium's worth of media attention in six months.
I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings.
I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.
I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.