The Devaluation of Writing

VISIT LIONAROUNDWRITING for the next post… an excellent article exploring how writing for money has changed (thanks, Internet), and how the appreciation of writing has changed as a result, as has the idea of actually paying for art. EXCELLENT piece.

“…MAYBE IT’S THE proliferation of social media; 140 characters on Twitter, as many as you like on Facebook. Maybe there’s a valid reason?”

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4 Things I’ve Learned About Blogging

by Michael Cristiano Happy one year anniversary to me! As of yesterday, I have been blogging for a year. A lot has happened in that year: I launched all of my social media/blogging efforts f…

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Pardon My Pregnant Pause

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Kicking up my feet for the weekend. I have three more pieces for this blog, five concurrent short stories a-brewin’, a massive re-write on my novel, and a cracking great filthy haiku just aching for a bus station wall to call home.

I’m thinking Union Station in D.C. Immortality awaits!

See y’all Monday!

 

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P.S. Please post any questionable haiku in the comments section. I’ll see if my sharpie has enough juice. But please: keep it sweet, Pete! Innuendo only.

HA! Word sounds like something else!

Strut, Baby!

Novel Progress

After getting lost in the brambles of chapters three and four, I’ve wiggled through chapter five and am on the path again! Soon, I’ll reach the fallen Kansas ranch-style home and grab those ruby slippers before that assassin Dorothy… wait…

Writing Advice: Be PROUD of What We Make You Do!

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Writing When Drunk!

Word Count?

Sure. Why not? Here is the printed out final of my first draft. Second draft involves me, pens, and my spidery, illegible handwriting. I am so old-fashioned sometimes.

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Writing Advice: Indecent Amounts of Mind-Altering Chemicals And YOU

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