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Category: Writing

  • The Silver Sickle by Ellie Ann

    I’ve meant to share this for some time, but business has been crazy. Also summer. Plus
 you know
 that whole epic photo-comic thingy
 BUT! My sister-by-another-mister Ellie Ann released her FIRST solo novel Monday. She calls it: You’re all a great group of supportive nerds. So here’s the thing: I’m counting on all Literators who…

  • 9art digital ads in their native habitat

    9art Photography’s most recent post talked up my copywriting and Matt Spiel’s design, all while showcasing photos of those ads in their native Joplin habitats.

  • copyediting for blu20 design

    Recently edited the copy for Joplin-based blu20 design’s portfolio. Wrote taglines and edited their current overviews for each project.

  • My World Series of Poker article

    If you happen to find yourself sitting before a stack of chips at one of the tables in the World Series of Poker between now and July 15th, make sure to pick up the special edition of Poker Pro. In it, you’ll find an article by yours truly. For the rest of you, I’ll give…

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    Blueprint (a CHCC video)

    Wrote up a quick poem for a bumper video. This was for College Heights’ videographer, Joseph Lang. Poem below.

  • a = 6r (where a = acceptance; r = rejection)

    What if you could mathematically figure out the amount of time it will take you to get accepted? To succeed? For those following on Twitter, you know that I just found some interesting math from the folks at Gud Magazine, math that may provide answers: Responses Acceptances: 1.7% (154.7 day(s) avg. per acceptance) Rejections: 98.3% (25.4…

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    Why Preachers Write Awful Books 
and what they can learn from fiction

    Most of you regulars who will read this first either hate religion, remain skeptical of the church, or you’re a Christian that feels bored/frustrated/faithful-yet-concerned with out-of-touch Midwest Megasomething. Books by pastors, we can safely assume, bore the living Barjesus out of you. Me too. (You who found this post via the recommendation of some first…

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    050: La Fin du Monde

    Read the world’s ending in a book again today and I laughed not out of disrespect but determination to laugh I’ve determined laughter helps us finish strong. It’s not the first book today printed whose themes feature the end of the world it’s a popular transition from fantasy to science fiction to move from eschatology…

  • 049: Por Que?

    because my highschool taught Español Vaminos! not Latin Via Ovid because of the blood in the water because no one remembers the Alamo, nor cares, nor, perhaps, ever cared because Texas wants to secede — we should let them and because we should take Puerto Rico in their place because of the Three Amigos because…

  • 048: Birthday Event Horizons

    “Micah’s how old? 
He can’t be that old.” isn’t a statement about a shift in age, but rather a shift in perspective. For the speaker in question remains the same age: “Theirs” and assumes that others will remain the same age: the age that others maintained in relation to “Theirs.” How ever Like the half-plus-seven…

  • 047: Things to Bring Tonight

    burlap sack. guns (those pistols and the shotgun). stuff for making bruises. chair. shop lamps. crappy rope. a sharp kitchen knife. dry ice
 chocolate syrup. a generator. the script. your camera. the director’s chair. oh, and fedoras. Lots of fedoras and overcoats. }{ For newcomers — a note on 50 @ 25: Once upon a…

  • 046: Sounds Forced

    “Don’t ever force it,” They say about the arts, meaning for this, for me in the right here right meow, don’t force poetry. DON’TFORCEPOETRY!!!!!!!!!!! ! But forced times call for forced measures. Like the way Spiderman’s forcing you to think: DR.PEPPERDR.PEPPERDR.PEPPER when he shoots DR.PEPPERDR.PEPPERDR.PEPPER webs across his room at a DR.PEPPERDR.PEPPERDR.PEPPER can. that’s more…