The Daily 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 to copy the style.
The Daily Putting the product on a pedestal Get past your "oneitis" for that perfect article, story, book, or course.
The Daily 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
The Daily 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
The Daily A rogue planet brand check In which I riff on the Bigger Vision animating the lifeless universe around here
The Daily 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
Members only The Daily How to think like an entrepreneur when you're a serious artiste Even the most pretentious creative can benefit from business acumen
Members only The Daily 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
Members only The Daily 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
Paid-members only The Daily How this weird Danish philosopher supercharged his writing brand by using pen names There's good business reasons besides the privacy paranoia
The Daily Should authors care about reader feedback? Authors care too much about what unimportant people think
The Daily When the "write to market" advice goes south The market doesn't know what it wants... but your readers know what they love
The Daily Writing speculative fiction without finger-wagging gatekeepers The moralizers wanted to eliminate 'adventure stories' and gave us garbage moralizing with shallow characters instead
The Daily Confused writers blindsided by unruly Creator Economy You aren't going to grow an audience by writing a newsletter that nobody wants to read
The Daily How to sell books when everybody's selling books What happens when books become a customer acquisition tool?
The Daily How nerd culture turned curiosity into a vice Why listening to fans is a horrible idea for any creator
The Daily How are your readers using your stories? What you think you're doing when you write... and what you're really doing
The Daily Why different is better than better (authors, pay attention) "Write to the market," say the experts to the writer. "There's a hungry crowd out there. Give them what they want and your book will be successful." The lesson is that, what worked before will continue working as we move ahead. Keep writing those zombie vampire romances topping the charts
Paid-members only The Daily What a quiet painter can teach fiction authors about creativity (and building your business) Why the business of writing isn't really about getting a book deal with a publisher
