How to practice relaxing expectations around the results of creative work by pursuing hobbies we aren’t good at. Also, new zine!

November! It used to be NaNoWriMo for writers all over the world. For years I told myself that next year, I’d do it, but I never did. The problem wasn’t time; at least, it wasn’t after I left my work as a history professor. It was confidence.

Image: Felix Fontaine, The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller (1862; Project Gutenberg, 2019), ‍https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60045/images/i_frontis.jpg.