A Small Gift for Your Dark Days as an Obscure Writer

This episode is personal. Rough Draft host Demian Farnworth offers you something that helped him during one of his most difficult times as an online writer …

It was in late September 2011. Occupy Wall Street was everywhere. And he longed to drop everything and join the movement because what he was doing at the time was killing him.

Then there came out of the dark a life preserver. A 182-year-old piece of content. A dramatic monologue about pushing forward beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

It gave Demian hope. It reminded him of his forgotten dreams. It …read more