Farewell, Otaku Links!
I’ve been writing these Otaku Links roundups since 2009. The oldest one you can still read is from December 23, 2010. (I made a lot of my older work private…
The Twitterless Diaries
Productivity isn’t about what you do. It’s about what you don’t do. I don’t know who first came up with this quote, but after this week I know it is…
Otaku Links: Decision time
This Newsweek article is a great example of how to take a niche anime topic and expand on it for a broader audience. It’s fantastic until one funny misstep at…
How to work on passion projects when your day job saps your energy
If you recall last January, I wrote a four-post series on how to choose a topic, write content, and launch a niche blog. This year, I’m resolving to launch six…
Otaku Links: If I say “Devilman” will you click on this?
This is the week I was finally cool on Twitter because I had two different popular Devilman Crybaby tweets. Between watching that show and most of the other anime season premieres, I’m…
An entire year of One Piece
In January 2017 I started episode one of One Piece. It’s January 2018 and I’m on episode 480. I didn’t set out to make “finish One Piece” a New Year’s…
Otaku Links: New year, new links
Happy new year, readers! Did you miss me? Regular posts resume Monday. Here are the people whose combined vision became the Land of the Lustrous finale. I love how SakugaBlog is…
2017 in Review: 9 questions to help you process and reflect
Thursday (Dec 21) is my 31st birthday. As a present to myself, this is the final Otaku Journalist post of 2017. This calls for some reflection. I love doing “year…
Otaku Links: What’s up with that?
Atlas Obscura asks and tries to answer: what’s up with anime’s obsession with power lines? They’re a symbol of everyday life, but that’s only half of it. (HT Joe) Amelia…
What I learned from writing a novel in a month
On October 30, I wrote How I’m silencing my inner critic to tell you about the ways I was preparing for National Novel Writing Month. Back then, I was a…