Category: articles
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Carefree Art
Over the next week, I’m going to talk about making brave art and making art bravely and today that means talking about carefree art. Featured Download: If you’d rather have the cliffnotes of the entire Brave Art series, click here. As we move into 2018 and talk about shifting towards carefree art and living free…
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Art and Fear : On Public Foolishness
Over the next week, I’m going to talk about making brave art and making art bravely and today that means talking about both art and fear. Featured Download: If you’d rather have the cliffnotes of the entire Brave Art series, click here. Through the silliness that is late stage capitalism — indeed through a certain business…
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Science Establishes Agnosticism
“The general notion that science establishes agnosticism is a sort of mystification produced by talking Latin and Greek instead of plain English. Science is Latin for knowledge. Agnosticism is the Greek for ignorance. It is not evident that ignorance is the goal of knowledge. It is the ignorance and not the knowledge that produces the…
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Fail Fast Habits
Over the next week, I’m going to talk about making brave art and making art bravely and today that means talking about my fail fast resolutions. Featured Download: If you’d rather have the cliffnotes of the entire Brave Art series, click here. Here’s the thing: not only am I not perfect, I fail often and…
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A Defense of Spoilers
Spoilers showed up this Christmas, my niece — who’s two years old — gave my sister-in-law and brother-in-law two presents. Both were wrapped. She’d decided exactly what she wanted to give to both of them. Each parent had helped her wrap the present for the other parent. And she wanted to give them first. On…
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Episode Story and Serialized Blogs : Segment
Once you’ve dissented against the norms in the blogging world, once you’ve clearly outlined how — exactly — you intend to help others, once you’ve focused on substance and earned the consent of readers who want you to contact them on a regular basis, once you’ve fermented your own style and substance until the blog is…
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Best Fails in Your Blog : Lament VS. Ignore
Once you’ve dissented against the norms in the blogging world, once you’ve clearly outlined how — exactly — you intend to help others, once you’ve focused on substance and earned the consent of readers who want you to contact them on a regular basis, once you’ve fermented your own style and substance until the blog is…
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Constructive Feedback on Your Blog : Relent
Once you’ve dissented against the norms in the blogging world, once you’ve clearly outlined how — exactly — you intend to help others, once you’ve focused on substance and earned the consent of readers who want you to contact them on a regular basis, and once you’ve fermented your own style and substance until the blog…
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Create Your Own Blog : Ferment VS. Specialize
The intent of your decision to create your own blog, the substance of your decision to create your own blog, and the consent of your blog’s audience all will ferment and begin to make a cohesive whole. That’s when things start to pick up steam. I don’t mean specialize. People talk all the time about…
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How to Blog : Consent
People happily pay for things that help them. Back when I lived in Joplin and had a car, I happily paid for oil changes even though I knew how to do it myself because it gave me more time to work on my writing. I happily pay for delivery when I’m in a rush because…
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Make a Blog : Content VS. Substance
I hate the word content. And as an author, I’m not really allowed to hate words because I need all of them. But you’re going to make a blog. (…and I don’t want you to make a blog that’s awful.) So maybe I should say I hate the way we use the word content. I’d…
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Short Christmas Stories : I Gotta Idee by Elsie Singmaster
If you’re looking for short Christmas Stories, check out I Gotta Idee by Elsie Singmaster in this episode of The Best Christmas Stories: Featured download: learn how to write your own Christmas Story based on thematic protagonism a la Dickens’ Christmas Carol.