Category: creativity
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Kinfolk and Advocates or “How to Build a Platform”
Chapter ten in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Imagine with me a whirlpool. You know, Charybdis from the Odyssey. Whitecaps, blue water,…
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Feeling Rejected: Slips
Chapter six in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. I grew fascinated in this time with rejection slips — with feeling rejected and…
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From Daydreams to Written Dreams
Chapter five in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. I have a hard time with conversations. Anyone who has spent any amount of…
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Does Fiction Lie? — The Liar’s Club
Chapter three in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Before I discovered poetry on my own, I had told stories to friends and…
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The Gateway Drug: Poetry
Chapter two in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Let me tell you the way of things: I fell into this gig.…
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Art Business Logic Sold Me on Self-Publishing :: Intro and Chapters
or Book and Art Business 101: How the Good Business Sense of Self-Publishing Finally Won Me Over I am not one to easily say I was wrong, but, my friends, I was terribly, horribly wrong. Wrong for the past ten years or more concerning a very important part of the publishing industry and art business.…
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Hipster Bank in Dickens
I think I just found the first hipster bank in Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities :: Tellson’s Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that…
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The Revitalization Movement in the Urban Greco-Roman World
Christianity served as a revitalization movement that arose in response to the misery, chaos, fear, and brutality of life in the urban Greco-Roman world. … Christianity revitalized life in cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems. To cities filled with the homeless and…
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Short Film Festivals :: DOs and DON’Ts
I’ve been a judge for several short film festivals in NYC since I moved here and I’ve noticed common threads in the ones I reject (finishing up my list for one of the bigger festivals today). Those of you who have been around the block won’t need to read this — you know this stuff…
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On Haters
Starting to fully understand the concept of the “hater” in rap music. I thought it was simply one-who-hates, but it’s not. It’s pretty specific. The word has a creative bend — remember, rappers are artists: A hater is someone who will always be against you and the good work you want to do in the…
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Does Talent Exist?
No. Or rather the existence of talent is so widespread and common that its potency clocks in at around the near-impotent range. Here’s the thing: My buddy used to work for Community Support Services, which helps mentally handicapped people live bright and vibrant lives. His main client was Jerry. Jerry still ranks in the…
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“How Likely Is It?” and “That’s inconvenient” are Insufficient Arguments
“We never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment, but which admit the general expediency and permanent excellence of the project. What is the best must be the true; and what is true—that is, what is at bottom fit and agreeable to the constitution of…