Interview notes 13 (January 2023)

Interview notes (January 2023)

Personal updates

"Alongside the usual satirical posts , you often provide lovely updates on what you’re up to , what the weather is like or how your day has been. Do you find this is important to the idea of the gnomon chronicles / building a community, or is there a different motivation for this."

Yes, it's true, I like to sprinkle in occasional personal post among the satires. One reason I do this is because people like it, they respond to it, and naturally I am pleased by the attention.

But it's not just self-serving calculation. Mine is a restless, mercurial mind. (Some might say disorganized and flighty. Enduring such opinions with grace is an essential skill.) I like to try different things.

In principle (I tell myself, from time to time), posting only satires to Twitter builds a better brand: readers know what to expect: all satire, all the time.

But I prefer to play things the way I do: mostly satire most of the ime, but with an occasional touch of personal thoughts, personal photos. I also like to occasionally retweet posts by others which I find compelling, intriguing, deserving yet underappreciated, and so on.