Ben Nesvig

I have a dilemma. Writing a book is a lot of work which requires a lot of self-motivation. I’m not sure what the motivation was for writing the two books I’ve written, but it wasn’t money. If someone told me they wanted to make money from writing books, I’d tell them to write fiction or […]

Pretend that I posted this back in mid-June. The baby has arrived! What a journey it has been. A lot of people talk about how painful the labor process is, but I didn’t think it was bad, aside from my feet being a little sore from standing. But this new father is feeling healthy and […]

I didn’t read many books in 2016. The number of completed books ended up at 15. Prior years it reached as high as 82. I also didn’t blog much this year. I wrote a measly ONE blog post. In the past (obviously), I once had a six-month stretch where I published a blog post daily. […]

I was recently interviewed via email by an 8th grader for a school project. She asked me about first world problems, so I wrote up my thoughts which you can find an expanded version of below. I haven’t heard back from her, so maybe these answers are terrible. 1. What prompted you to write your […]