Inside the Writing: Bring Back Satire

Hey everyone! I hope this post finds you well despite the #coronavirus pandemic. I’ve been blogging a lot lately — everything from political reads and takes to tips for surviving what is being called (only half-kidding) the apocalypse.

But I’m writing to you today with good news, news from before any of this happened. News of entertainment, of satire, of deep thoughts and good times. Good news about a new and, indeed somewhat unexpected new book.

The Idea

The concept of Bring Back Satire came from a social network I’ve been using to workshop some of my poems and essays and short stories. It’s called Cent, and it’s attracted the most wonderful group of cryptocurrency-aware intellectuals I’ve found in one place online. These people use the internet to help each other, and I’m probably always going to write for them because I love the honesty of the reactions I get there as well as the willingness to help I experience whenever I have an ask of the community. Follow me on Cent here to see what I’m creating.

With feedback from the community, I was able to sort of figure out that there were three things I had to offer people there which would tend to go over fairly well: poetry, short stories, and essays.

Thus incentivized to share my work, I was encouraged to do more and more of it. Comments like this one:

made it fairly impossible to want to hide my work from the world, and I found myself sharing more variety and more…