writing
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When You Can’t Just Make Art for Art’s Sake
My last blog post, which talked about the merger between Penguin and Random House, reminded me of an important lesson that, as someone who enjoys the notion of “being creative,” I shouldn’t have forgotten. On the internet, you can’t make art for art’s sake. If you do, that’s more or less assuming that your art…
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What the Penguin & Random House Merger Means for Authors
For the past few years, authors have kind of looked on in dismay as publishing houses like Penguin and Random House lumbered like dinosaurs underneath the growing shadow of the meteoric threat known as ebooks. I was – and continue to be – part of that group, so I was proud to hear of the…
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4 Things You Need to Know About the Brave, Lonely World of Blogging
When I posted my first attempt at “15 Minute Fury” – blog posts that I don’t spend more than 15 minutes on – I thought pretty hard about it. You know, afterwards. I was wondering if I was sacrificing quality for quantity. If, by trying to force myself to create something by giving myself a…
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eBooks: The Future of Writing, Once Everyone Gets Over It
Reading Time: ~5 minutes When the Kindle first came out, I remember a distinct feeling as my heart sunk into a swamp of pessimism. This is it, I thought. I am an English major, an aspiring novelist, a “writer,” at literally the worst time in American history of the world to be one. In other…
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