The effects of writers’ preoccupations with constant marketing
Just found a nice post by Jason Pinter (here) on writers having to spend so much time marketing their work. And really, on having to spend so much time and life energy marketing, instead of just writing whatever it is their mission in life to write about. I added a comment and thought it might [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Competition and writers
My friend, author Jennifer Lawler, tweeted something this morning about an agent’s blog, and I started looking at his site. He made a comment in there about writers who read agents’ blogs as having an advantage in the writing world, and his blog site lists a whole bunch of agents’ blogs. So I thought, maybe [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )From Timothy Leary to timid and leery?
A cool bit of “psychological realism” in the Biblical story of Moses is that when he’s asked by the Voice to go speak to the head of the society he’s grown up in, he balks. He’s in fact terrified. What’s real about that is that it fits the story of his having grown [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Soul and Self (book review)
It may surprise people to hear psychologists talk about the “soul.” Generally in American culture we tend to think in high-walled categories. We often assume that you are either one thing or the other: either a “believer” in spiritual truths or else an “atheist scientist” type who sees no soul, only a brain, [...]
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