Category: articles
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Creativity Prompt: Incarcerate
In which I attempt to prompt creativity from a readership of creatives…
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Missing Lemony Snicket?
Have you seen these around town? This campaign combines two of my favorite things: innovative marketing and literature. See, I hate ads unless they’re really really good. My dad used to hang these things up all the time to sell things or to distribute information, but to use one for a bestselling YA series?! Oh…
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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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The Book Seer
Plug your most recent read into The Book Seer’s formula and see recommendations of similar reads.
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Left Brain/Right Brain Visualized
You’ll want to click on the pic to magnificate the words and images. Originally here.
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Ebook Sales Leveling off… and why that’s a great thing.
Ebook sales have leveled off to normal growth, and sooner than most technologies. If you’re someone who reads a book every week during your commute, say a detective novel or romance novel, the e-book format is perfect for you. But those people have pretty much all shifted to e-books, and there are only so many…
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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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My Eulogy?
This flattery has become something of a Ph test for whether I’m living life well. Does what you’re doing feel off, Lance? Check the eulogy.
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Sitting at the feet of : The Spirit in The Song
In which I interview the band Eine Blume on how they capture the spirit of a moment in music.
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KC Color Run!
Turns out the Joplin Color Run was JV compared to the KC Color Run’s varsity team. Backstory: my wife has Type 1 Diabetes and has been kicking its tail with this running stuff. We got there, and this was the line for the porta-potty. I put down water faster than most waiters can bring it…