Category: Writing
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Copywriting for New Higher Education Client
Partnered with Ozark Christian College on this campaign (design by Little Bird). The idea was to highlight the argument in favor of intransitive education, the same one featured in that widely circulated blog post from back in May: “Come and Change,” for instance, isn’t simply the stereotypical “come learn to change the world.” Rather, come…
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Story Q&A: When should budget limit my film’s genre?
One of the questions that has come up in Free Lance Friday was posed by a screenwriter and filmmaker: when should my budget limit my story? The answer is either always or never, but not both. First, “never.” Your budget, as a screenwriter, should never limit your story when you write to sell your screenplay.…
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Dead Christ
Holbien fishes bodies from the Rhine // stone or marble forms a slab // he clears green mold, seaweed, the guts // it takes to paint a Chrorpse, // and spreads them out to prompt his work.
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TFH: Bubba VS. The Bear
Fall makes me nostalgic, that’s my only excuse for what follows. Tales from Home all come from my past. I reserve the right to exaggerate, alter, or fabricate details. Home isn’t Lake Wobegon and this ain’t its News. My goal is to share, to entertain, maybe to inspire, but never to harm, so please email me…
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Tales from Home: The World’s Largest Hippo
Fall makes me nostalgic, that’s my only excuse for what follows. Tales from Home all come from my past. I reserve the right to exaggerate, alter, or fabricate details. I’m not Lake Wobegon and this ain’t my News. These are just… tales from home. My goal is to share, to entertain, maybe to inspire, but…
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Quick S.E.O. Fixes for WordPress
I’m no SEO guy, but I do hang out with SEO guys often. Here are a few quick things I learned about SEO on WordPress: WordPress does most of the hard work, but you should still register. Your domain is registered, all of the metadata is factored in easily, but you still should take advantage…
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Quick thought for your maiden voyage as a nonfiction writer
Several of my clients have started nonfiction works recently and asked if they should go the memoir route or the how-to route. I pushed a couple of them toward a memoir-heavy blend. If you’re in an industry with an established audience and are approached as one who could make an “easy sell” or if you’re…
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Engineers use SciFi writers to revive American Innovation
Hieroglyph is a space for SciFi writers, engineers, scientists, and artists to collaborate on creative, ambitious visions of the near-future. Neal Stephenson noticed a serious void in the optimism of science so he helped create an online collaborative between the people who dream things up and the people who make dreams real. Right now, they’ve…
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Fleep: Using Curiosity and Concern to Pull Readers Along
Curiosity powers the questions, “What’s is that? What did I just witness?” Concern powers the question, “Will everything turn out okay?” And both lead to the question “What’s next?”
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On Mortality
To wrap up this week’s theme of grief, loss, and eulogies, I’m sharing a poem on mortality I wrote one year ago. I woke up in the middle of the night with the worst fever of my life, aching to my bones, certain of death — kind of like my friend’s cold sweat from yesterday’s…
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Narrative Distance in Relationships
There remains a narrative distance between one and another that others have called “relationship.” This narrative distance shows the relative disconnect between the tale we try to tell for one and another — I am an author for yours, You, an author for mine. Father to son, son to father The space between spouses (long…