The Road2Elsewhere Turns 200!

200 posts, that is! With links to my most popular columns! And drawings! What does it all mean? I! Don't! Know! But I'm having fun, at least. You, too? WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

I WAS AT A CABIN IN COLORADO WITH TWO PUBLISHING-INDUSTRY FRIENDS, in 2019. Accent on the friend part, but these guys also knew their way around books and career-building, having done it themselves in big ways. Looking out of floor-to-ceiling windows, we enjoyed endless views of the continental divide, where the country split over the spine of the Rockies. Exactly the kind of place to contemplate your future, raise your sights, and swear you’ll attempt many difficult things or die trying.

But even with this view in front of me, my friends caught me looking backward, as I described my difficulty breaking away from what had always worked for me: Writing and editing for magazines, with ghostwriting projects on the side. It was a good living. They advised me to give it up.

“You need to introduce the idea of Moorebucks into your life,” my pal Jeremy said. “Pay yourself to do what you love, rather than what oth…