Dirk Hooper

…y. Some folks have reported that readers tend to clap less now that the earnings model has changed. If they do that, it’s a damn shame, since Medium has indicated that higher claps will help those stories receive greater distribution.

Nothing will bring you down faster than surrounding yourself with the wrong group of people.

5. Romance Monsters: Changing the way we look at romance by breaking the stigma and being real about love, self-love, and relationships.

I imagine the fire as her soul.
How many times had it been hurt?
Been broken? Been blessed?

that all the nights we spend digging
and digging and tendering an earth
no one thinks is made for us —

When I finally broke out of that depression, I had developed guilt about doing anything “non-productive”. TV, fiction, anything lazy — it was all unjustifiable. I spent every waking moment trying to be pro…

…it’s an illusion. You are not god, so it is not possible that you could predict or adjust every single detail. They a…

My number one priority, if I were you, would be figuring out how to get curated most of the time. It matters a lot. Writing a lot of posts, consistently, that aren’t curated and not distributed to …

an…o Grandmother after having pruned her rose garden, the scent of her freshly scrubbed from the bath. In her hands, it had become something regal, an effortless touch of glamour.

in story has …ent films. But yet in all this time, no origin story has ever crossed the heights of Batman Begins. Origin stories otherwise, have been incredibly safe, mostly superficial and rarely have the depth that Batman Begins brings.