How I Re-fell in Love with Writing

September 6, 2016September 6, 2016Eric Michel Books, Life, Uncategorized Tags: Advice, Author, Awesome, Book, College, Eric, Life, Productivity, Work, Writers, Writing Leave a comment

Ok, now that I have the Kaepernick thing out of the way, I can get back to my other work, which was my plan all along. (However, I do want to say a quick thank you to everyone who read that article, whether you agreed with it or not. We broke 100 views in 24 hours, which has only been done like two other times in the history of this website. So thanks.)

For those of you that read everything I post, you’ll know I recently started a fitness website. It launched in June, and so far I have a stream of about 20 dedicated readers that habitually click on whatever I put out. Shouts to you guys. For those of you that like my other work (ie the stuff that infrequently appears on this website) I’ve been inactive for a really long time. The reason for that is a simple, yet important one: I was disenchanted with the idea of becoming an author. I found myself thinking less and less about my career as a fiction writer, and more and more about pursuing a career as a personal trainer and fitness “expert.” My passion switched from writing made up things to analyzing scientific research and learning about the best ways to build muscle. Which would have been fine, if I didn’t quickly become disenchanted with that. Continue reading →

In Defense of Colin Kaepernick

August 30, 2016Eric Michel Life, Uncategorized Tags: 49ers, Author, Colin Kaepernick, Complaints, Eric, Football, Life, NFL, Rants, San Francisco, Writers, Writing 2 Comments

I really didn’t want to have to do this.

I mean, really didn’t want to have to do this.

I was actually in the middle of writing a very important post for this site, one that would have been the first in a few months. I’d rather be finishing that up. But instead, I find myself talking about the latest thing that has America’s panties in a bunch, Mr. Colin Kaepernick and his decision not to stand during the National Anthem.

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I Went Without a Phone for Roughly Six Days, and Here’s What I Learned

February 17, 2015Eric Michel Life Tags: Author, Change, College, Complaints, Eric, Funny, Life, Life Lesson, Phone, Verizon, Water, Writers, Writing Leave a comment

“The insurance company should be calling you sometime tonight, and they’ll ship the replacement phone in the morning. You should have it by Tuesday.” The lady at Verizon Wireless looked at me, sounding all too annoyed by the situation. She wasn’t the only one. As I’d find out in the coming days, you don’t know how good you have it until it’s gone. You also don’t know you have a problem until you have to confront it directly. Continue reading →

My Horrendous Lack of Motivation— and What I’m Doing to Fix It

February 4, 2015Eric Michel Life Tags: Author, College, Complaints, Fitness, Get Motivated, Life, Motivation, Writers, Writing 1 Comment

Reality has this funny way of knocking you down a peg just when things are starting to look up. There have been multiple times this year where I’ve ascended to what I thought was the top rung of life, to the point where I could almost see the light at the end of the tunnel… and then I’ve fallen on the last step and come crashing down to the bottom. I’m not going to go into specifics, but a little background is necessary for you to understand why I’ve been such a lazy bag of shit for the last three months. Continue reading →

My Dinner with Jonathan Franzen

October 29, 2014Eric Michel Uncategorized Tags: Author, Awesome, Book, College, Discomfort Zone, Eric, Good Literature, Jonathan Franzen, Life, Napolese, Novel, The Corrections, Writers, Writing 1 Comment

I got the news a couple weeks ago. It started like any other day. I was bored after classes, and there was no way in hell I was going to start my homework— it was naptime. As is customary, I logged onto my laptop so I could check my email to ensure that I wasn’t missing out on some super-important club meeting that I wasn’t going to attend anyway. My inbox was full of the usual junk: the school newspaper, emails from professors about my classes, porn advertisements, (kidding) the works, until I stumbled upon an email with the subject header that read: You’re Invited to Have Dinner With Writers From the Visiting Writers Series, RSVP. I was ecstatic.

For those of you who don’t know, I attend Butler University in Indianapolis. Each year, they run a program called the Visiting Writers Series, where famous authors from around the country come and speak to the people on campus. The next morning, the author hosts a student-only Q&A in the creative writing center. In past years, Butler has had some pretty big names come to town: Tim O’ Brien, Margaret Atwood, and Jennifer Egan, to name a few. This year, there were some people I’d never heard of before, and one name I had: Jonathan Franzen was scheduled to come on October 28th. Continue reading →

I Believe in the Written Word

April 27, 2014April 27, 2014Eric Michel Uncategorized Tags: Author, Awesome, Belief, Book, Eric, High School, Life, Passion, Ray Bradbury, Writers, Writing, Written Word 1 Comment

Realllly long and complicated story short: I’ve had a helluva weekend. It’s been loads of fun. On weekends like this, I usually don’t have time to write all that much. As I sat down earlier today to think of a blog post, I began to fall asleep at the keyboard because I didn’t get enough shut-eye on the nights prior.

Once I woke up from my 3 and a half hour nap, I tried my hand at this again… It’s been like an hour and I still don’t have much. I try to keep most of my posts somewhat writing-affiliated, and nothing new was coming to mind. I did, however, find an old essay from my junior year of high school that I’d like to share. Continue reading →

Review: Total Frat Move

April 12, 2014April 13, 2014Eric Michel OWOB Tags: Author, Awesome, Book, College, Eric, Fraternities, Life, Novel, OWOB, Total Frat Move, Writers Leave a comment

This one wasn’t so much for you guys as it was for me. If you’ve been keeping up with my posts semi-regularly, you probably know that I’m leaving for college in August. I’m really excited, and I’m pretty sure I’m gonna rush a frat. As I was in my future college’s bookstore the other day, I saw this book… I had a 20% off coupon that expired in May and I knew that if I didn’t buy something then said coupon would not be spent. Long story short: I bought the book. My opinions will forever be mixed. Continue reading →

NYC, College, + OWOB Status!

April 9, 2014April 9, 2014Eric Michel Uncategorized Tags: Author, Awesome, Book, College, Eric, Good Literature, High School, Life, New York City, Novel, NYC, OWOB, Scientology, Senior, Writers Leave a comment

I said in my last post that I’d try to post mid-week… Well, it is in fact mid week, just a week later than I planned for. Right now I am on Spring Break, so I figured now would be a nice time for an update. Continue reading →

Review: Divergent

March 29, 2014March 29, 2014Eric Michel OWOB Tags: Author, Book, Divergent, Eric, Life, Meh, Movie, Novel, Overrated, OWOB, Review, Veronica Roth, Writers 1 Comment

“Dude, you need to read Divergent. It’s really good.”

“Just read Divergent, man! You won’t regret it. You’ll finish it in like two days.”

“You better hurry up and read Divergent before the movie comes out!”

Well, I read the damn book. I read it, and I may be the only one in America to dislike it. Continue reading →

“You Done F’d Up”

March 9, 2014March 9, 2014Eric Michel Uncategorized Tags: Author, College, Complaints, Divergent, Eric, High School, Life, Scientology, The Shining, Veronica Roth, Writers Leave a comment

For a while now, my rule when it comes to this blog thing has been “whatever happens, happens.” The only thing I’ve been a real stickler about is posting. I figured that as long as I posted every Saturday, we’d all be happy. Well, let’s just say this weekend was a loooong one. To quote Bill Duke in Menace II Society, I guess I “done fucked up.” Continue reading →

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