Adam Savage says he does this in one of the Tested podcasts, too. Great idea!

I started keeping a single-sentence journal after I got engaged. It’s been a very good source of happy memories to look back on that you’d otherwise forget. Highly recommending this tip :D

This reference made me way too happy just now.

Again, I offer my services as a DM to do a game for the Lifehacker crew. :D

I love that a lot of these responses are, "Sorry, I can't hear your question over the sound of how awesome space is."

At least you already have a name tailor-made for fantasy games. Thorin the Incredible uses Mass Suggestion to make the internet try his crazy advice. It lasts 2 Pomodoros.

On a semi-related note: if you ever wanted to play D&D, I would totally DM a game for the Lifehacker crew. It's like LARPing! Except you don't have to leave your table!

Yes I do! Largely as a mobile writing platform. Occasionally I use it for movies and TV, but I've found my phone a little more convenient for that instead. Also, fewer people lean over my shoulder to watch what I'm watching. CAN'T I WATCH PERSON OF INTEREST IN PEACE?

I now feel more confident that I can make my lifestyle of juggling a full time job, a hectic side gig in dancing, and writing work. Great How I Work article!

Hah. Yeah, last year I used NaNo to finish up a book I was already working on, then filled the rest of the month out with short stories. We can call it "cheating" but I don't think Chris Baty and the NaNo crew mind all that much, anyway.

Melanie! You wouldn't happen to be doing NaNoWriMo yourself, would you?

Specialty. Typically, you'd need find a tea shop that's dedicated to it—CoCo and Kung Fu Tea are coast-to-coast chains, but many others exist as well. You'll probably also hear about it referred to as "boba" if you're on the West Coast. Check around your closest Chinatown area, though I'm aware an increasing number of…

Question - when the other person resorts of ad hominem attacks, is it more productive to continue the discussion or just dismiss it?

Oh my. Yes, yes it is. Highly recommended.

I spent more than the past year doing the Bullet Journal method, previously also covered by Lifehacker. It amounts to a simple, handwritten to-do list in a notebook. Recently, I tried going back to fancier things (Wunderlist specifically) and ... found I was actually way more comfortable with my bullet journal.

Any advice on this when you have a coworker or two that you don't like but are overly prying? I generally think of myself as friendly and approachable, but there are coworkers I don't consider myself personally close to at all but ask personal, unprofessional things.

Replace "fancy dinner" with "bubble tea" and that's my routine. I'll have that fancy dinner when people outside my writing circle actually read my stories :D

This is both my favorite episode of the Nerdist podcast and my favorite bit of writing advice ever given.

You guys ran another thing I liked a little while ago, about 3 things you should do every day.

The most successful parties my fiancee and I have hosted were dumpling parties. We made hundreds and hundreds of dumplings, but we enlisted our friends in the production line. Some folks put the filling in, others folded the wrappers, others cooked. It covered all the bases for interaction, made everyone part of the…