Do you miss the immediate feedback of the blog commenters community?
The nice thing about blogging during the Project was, not only there are the cheerleaders who pushed me, but I would also reply to comments, and there was all this chatter all around. Readers would comment between themselves. The Project, and the book, was really a community effort. Aside from the fact that I would have never finished, I don’t know if I would understand the resonance of what I was doing without the commenters. I realized there was something universal to what I was doing. I was in this place were you feel trapped and don’t have good options and have to invent an exit out of it. This was something they associated with very strongly. The attraction of the Project is not the cooking and the butter and the cream, but it is the journey and the self-reinvention. Why write extensively new material, instead of editing the blog material? I knew from the end of the Project that I did not want the book to be a re-hash of the blog. What is interesting to read in the morning for 5 i
