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 )Doctor Mustard, In the Consulting Room, With Words
As a kid I was fascinated by a comic strip about a bumbling cop, Fearless Fosdick, most famous for his habit of pursuing bad guys by “firing a warning shot into the crowd.” In one series of strips, there was a sinister murder weapon that was killing people off — a sheet of paper [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 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 )J.K. Rowling and Depression
There’s an article today on J.K. Rowling that says she struggled a lot with major depression, and even thoughts of suicide, before she became successful with her “Harry Potter” books. Thankfully, she got some good help (though it was apparently a near miss, in the sense that a substitute medical person more or less [...]
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