🦄On being HAPI and a writer at the same time

In How to Thrive as a Writer in a Capitalist Dystopia, I asked whether it was even possible to be happy and a writer at the same time. Happiness was a bit of a hobby horse was mine at the time, in that I listened to The Happiness Lab and read the occasional book on happiness, but I wasn’t obsessed with it in the way I was with death mythology, weird art…