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Clear ideas convince
Back when I was teaching, I spent roughly 98% of my time with students breaking them of bad writing habits. What happens is, they read awful writing and assume that it's part of the "insider club". Smart people must write this way, they think. They try
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Putting the product on a pedestal
Get past your "oneitis" for that perfect article, story, book, or course.
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Financial guru accidentally gives out excellent advice for your writerly exploits
You start to notice the same "tracks left in the snow" by successful people in any category
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Marauding marketers make a mess of a serious pulp fiction artist by selling lots of books
The old myth of the struggling romantic artist who can't compete with the carnival-barkers just won't die... we won't let it
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A rogue planet brand check
In which I riff on the Bigger Vision animating the lifeless universe around here
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She's sick of the Substack hype and I don't blame her one bit
This publishing consultant takes a shiv to the pretty lies propping up the latest disruptive gold-rush
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How to think like an entrepreneur when you're a serious artiste
Even the most pretentious creative can benefit from business acumen
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Karl Marx's ideas help greedy capitalist creators grow a profitable brand for once
A lesson from this communist hero that even the most exploitative fat-cats must know
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Why you must think like a business leader if you are a creator
The writers, musicians, and artists who survive and thrive understand the business
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How this weird Danish philosopher supercharged his writing brand by using pen names
There's good business reasons besides the privacy paranoia
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Should authors care about reader feedback?
Authors care too much about what unimportant people think