Social Media and the Death of Creativity
The capacity to daydream and an urge to seek out the new are at the heart of an artistic life. Social media kills both.
A mind that wanders is a creative mind. A wandering mind activates the part of the …
Tag: writing
Inequality and Literature – The Brahmin Left vs The Merchant Right
You will know the name Thomas Piketty via his seminal book on inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Like Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, Piketty’s was a best-selling work read by almost no-one.
Here’s the gist. …
The Writer’s Training Regime, Part 6: Dungeons and Dragons
I’ve fallen in love with dungeons and dragons again, descending once more into the depths of the nerd.
As I’ve written previously, I am employed as a dungeon master to run a D&D campaign for a group of NDIS-funded …
200 submissions
200 shots fired in my ongoing campaign to have you motherfuckers read one of my stories. Not many have hit: 14, to be precise, new sales*.
Good sales, most of them, to be sure – many professional, six to the …
The author’s lament: Why the fuck am I doing this?
It’s a question writers ask throughout their careers. While it is one, I suspect, most frequently posed (yelled, sighed) at the beginning, even the best have been known to lament. Richard Flanagan, for example, nearly quit writing to be a …
Late Bloomer (the old fart as new writer)
I respond with a mixture of envy and fear every time a writer tells me they were born to write. Every time I read about this famous writer getting their first type-writer at 10, or that famous writer publishing their …