On tedium
I am organizing some of my writing into a book manuscript now. It can be very tedious deleting unnecessary words from copy-and-paste, and it can be a bit embarrassing to see some of the things you have written that you would never want anyone to see again.
I am only trying to publish things that are not embarrassing to me, but a lot of it has to do with jokes. And they can often be embarrassing. At some point, if you are trying to be funny, you have to stop caring about embarrassing yourself a bit.
I have also posted some angry things on social media over the past year and am trying to leave them out. I am also trying to leave out political comments from the book. But some of it will contain brief, serious essays and serious, brief poems. I hope someone else will read it and maybe enjoy it. It will likely be out this summer.