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Fear of Success Anonymous
This is going to sound like a joke, but I swear it's true. I once joined Fear of Success Anonymous, aka FOSA. This was in Los Angeles, so almost all the group members were actors or screenwriters. The group got so popular it had to disband. I remember dri
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The Arcadian: A Novel
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Writing Wednesdays: Tk Ths Job N Shove It
When you and I worked on the assembly line at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, we had to worry about our production quotas, our standards of workmanship, and our supervisor's evaluation of us. What we didn't have to worry about was the structure
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Writing Wednesdays: The 3 Brains of an Artist
You and I as artists and writers have to have three brains. The first is our artist's brain. That's the part that writes or sings or dances. The part that invokes the Muse. It's our
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Writing Wednesdays: 20% for New Business
When I first went to work as a neophyte copywriter in advertising, back in the Mad Men era, the thing that surprised me most was how much time was allocated (and required) by the agency for New Business. When we filled out our weekly time sheets, we had t
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Writing Wednesdays: Leaving Something on the Table
When Shawn Coyne and I were first brainstorming the business concept behind Black Irish Entertainment, our two-man company that publishes The War of Art and its cousins, we wondered just how ambitious we wanted to be. We decided, Not all that ambitious. W
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My Favorite Prompt
Preparing to host a writing retreat got me thinking about writing prompts, i.e. the "assignment" you and I might be given if we attended a writing workshop. Here's the one I would hope someone gave me: Write a piece (of any length) about something you kno
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Writing Wednesdays: Missing Missing Missing
I had a boss when I worked in advertising who used to call together the Creative Group (four two-person teams of copywriter and art director) just before he would submit a pitch or proposal to a client. He would pin the ads and TV storyboards to the wall
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How Alone Are We?
One of the reasons a community of writers and artists is important, even a virtual one like our Writing Wednesdays, is because each of us is, in our work, essentially ALONE. Compare the writer/artist to an auto mechanic (or even a brain surgeon). If they
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The Writer's Voice
How do you find your writer's voice? A lot of humbug has been written on this subject. The myth is that in finding that voice, the writer achieves a kind of personal enlightenment. She discovers "who she really is." Not in my experience. This is not to sa
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