Category: Writing
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58 poems at 29 years old + The State of the Schaubert
On odd years, I’ve made this habit of doubling my age and writing that many poems. I did it with the 46 @ 23, the 50 @ 25, and the 54 @ 27. This year, I’m adding a tradition of updating everyone on the lay of the land. So here’s where things stand for me…
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The Flaw in Turing’s Test
In perhaps the finest single cinematic scene last year, we watched “Nathan” (Oscar Isaac) dance an eerie groove alongside one of his female robots “Kyoko” (Sonoya Mizuno) who mirrored him twerk for twerk. Nathan incarnates some dark fictional amalgamation of Larry Page and Travis Kalanick — a billionare isolated by his fame, his fortune, and his…
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Succeeding for Others
Chapter twelve 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. If you want to succeed as a writer, you must take the path that’s…
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Author Earnings in 2016
Chapter twelve 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. In Any Money Makes a Pro, I took an example of brokenness — Faulkner’s…
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Publishing Contracts of the Draconian Variety
Chapter eleven 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. We find out in On Writing that Stephen King signed a contract he…
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Making Good Money… in a Shadow Career
Chapter nine 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. Once you’ve read The Writer’s Market and come to terms with the good sides…
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Regular Writing Assignments — The Dark and The Light
Chapter eight 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. Once the rejections slow down and you’ve found a bit of success (or, possibly,…
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Any Money Makes a Professional Writer
Chapter seven 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. People will tell you don’t quit your day job. Other people say do what…
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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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Where and How to Sell What You Write
Chapter four 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. When I went to college, I found myself loaded down with logic and rhetoric…
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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.…