Many people are awakening to the power boredom can have in prompting one to make new things, but they have not yet considered the call to make slowly. I have a bit of experience in this because I’ve written seven novels and only one is just now going to be published four years after my…

Here at the Showbear Family Circus, we’re less concerned with becoming the foremost literary magazine — still less concerned with even turning a profit — and more concerned with an idea. That idea is moral courage: how virtue upholds civic society and how civil society works best when minds are liberated to manifest ideas in the…

For the most part, the campaign of Andrew Yang has cooked up that perfect blend of inspiring, vaporware, and buzzwords we’ve come to expect from both the business community and the gold rush cities of California. Buzzwords because naming a new radioactive isotope does not negate the power a Dyson sphere (advanced solar panels) hold…

As our writers group + critique group here in Brooklyn ramps up for Nanowrimo, I wanted to offer Nanowrimo rules and also give you some encouragement for the journey. First the rules: Nanowrimo Rules :: Sign up via Nanowrimo.org Pick a working title and genre after you set up your account Write 1,667 words per…