Category: articles
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The Brooklyn Film Festival at Windmill Studios
A windmill guards wonder pictures: blades hedging bad ideas. Festival goers’ fists and feet vote as teams, very to very, sparrows—they echo spite for spite, but they aren’t right: Thous aren’t here. The windmill unwinds weathered not from spins unwound or spurning found sins. Windies gone whence called: nailed and neutered, naught milling here. It…
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Greenwood
Twenty-four crypts: teeming mouths songless closed, soothing whistlers they pucker: Thayer, Galdwell, Green, Michael — Greenwood blows cyclonic, sites of graves stirring waves up, staring stairs down for prey. Dowreys in stones displayed; stolen days, stolen children — stoves aflame the names! The dates! The native whistling low till lakes blow circular. Maelstrom made small…
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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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5 Reasons I Failed Kickstarter
We have several trite truisms for moments like these — you live and you learn; if you fall down, pick yourself back up again; if life gives you lemons then make lemonade — but seldom do these account for a strong internal compass. Recently, I decided to try my hand at Kickstarter with one of the strangest…
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SPORTS: AN APOLOGY
If you’ve seen the pictures I’ve been tagged in, you probably saw that family was in town this week and that I went to several ballparks. They were very gracious to bring us along. Writing because we just said goodbye and it’s hard being away from all of them already. But I want to talk…
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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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Neurotic Pleasure and Religious Pain
Resentment is bittersweet. If we did not cherish it, we would let it go. What sort of rewards do we get from our resentment? Why do we keep score? First, it makes us feel superior to the person we resent. Also, it gives us an excuse for indulging in exquisite plots for revenge such as…
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10000 hours rule : is it false?
10000 hours rule from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers was scientifically proven to be false people say and then they point to a study that actually bolsters all of the chapters of Outliers that surround the 10000 hours rule. I’ve seen links to four articles just this week that did just that: tried to prove Gladwell wrong…
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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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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,…