Ask the Author: Chuck Collins
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Chuck Collins
Writing non-fiction -- Find a platform --a blog or small outlet --to publish your work. Build up your voice and your portfolio of stories. A broadly read article may have more impact than a book.
Chuck Collins
I'm working on another book, tentatively called "Disrupting Narratives of Deservedness: Changing the Stories that Justify Economic and Racial Inequality" --exploring the stories people tell themselves to explain inequality.
Chuck Collins
Learning things so you can write intelligently about them is one of the more fun things I get to do.
Chuck Collins
Start where you have inspiration. But also develop a practice. I really like Stephen King's book about writing, called "On Writing." He says write 2,000 words a day not matter what. Peter Elbow used to say writers block is sometimes when the writer and editor are both working at the same time. Write first, edit later.
Chuck Collins
I remember reading the "Panama Papers," the leak that exposed how one Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, created tens of thousands of secret corporations for their clients. I thought, "these are the agents of inequality." The closer I looked, the more I realized that the "wealth defense industry" --the tax and estate lawyers, the wealth managers, the accountants --were the facilitators of this wealth vanishing act.
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