My Year in Writing – Joakim Book

In 2019 I managed to put out 75 pieces, across 5 different outlets — much more than I ever dreamed of when, last spring, I nervously decided to devote myself wholeheartedly to the task of writing.

To put that into any kind of context: during my first year of blogging at Life of an Econ Student I published 101 pieces — but, I must say, of much lower academic quality, mostly consisting of personal, diary-style reflections about life, studying, and economics. In hindsight, not too exciting.

Annualizing my 75 pieces over the full calendar year 2019 (I only really started to treat writing as a full-time dedication around April last year) puts me on par with my previous blogging output, so I’m kinda happy with that.

But what a year it has been.

I have, so far, overcome my two worst fears:
(1) not being able to make it, both in regards to income and to publishing outlets; and
(2) running out of ideas, energy or discipline.

While absolutely pouring out pieces ranging 700 to 4,000 words and averaging 2 publications a week between August and December, the Trello cards that contain my ideas, partially-finished outlines and unedited drafts are now more numerous than ever. The source of my inspiration is replenished faster than I can turn it into useable pieces.

There simply seems to be no end to interesting things to learn about, strange arguments to consider, and erroneous beliefs about the world in dire need of correcting.

My work has appeared in at least five languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Italian) and I’ve edited material ranging from Canada to Ireland and Switzerland. Truly globalist, if you wish.

Let’s look at some of them.

Published at Sat, 04 Jan 2020 19:43:32 +0000

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