What Dante Can Teach Us About Character
700 years old and it still matters
Beyond Craft
Beyond Craft is a Substack dedicated to helping writers (both established and emerging) to better understand their endeavor. It is a realistic look at the challenges of writing and publishing, and the changing practices of the publishing industry.
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Writing Without Reading
Thank goodness for Rachel Cusk
The Post-Literate Future Will Lead to the Post-Creative Future
And that promises to be boring and unfulfilling
A Story of Literary Masochism
I’m in query hell. Why am I doing this to myself? Why are we?
I’m Constructing an App Using AI
And it makes me wonder about the nature of intelligence
How Should the Arts be Funded?
Government or philanthropy?
The Creative Resistance
A truly American phenomenon
Can We Save Literary Writing?
If we’re ever going to make any change in the market we’ve got to organize
Summing Up Sicily
A Sicilian author, the universal blindness of the publishing industry, and other observations
Sicily Day 6: Far Niente
A series of day trips has kept me from writing.
Sicily Day 4: The Server Difference
To tip or not to tip
Sicily Day 3
The heat isn’t only in the kitchen
Our First Two Days in Catania
Great food, great people, really bad music
Have Publishing Professionals Become Mediocre Bureaucrats?
The pressures of the biz may give them no choice
If Art Becomes Commodity is it Still Art?
How copyright, influencers, and AI serve business interests at artists' expense
A F***ing Think Piece on Profanity in Literature and Culture
Warning: Vulgarity, and lots of it! Do not read if those words offend you.
On Vocational Awe
The two sides of writers and the lies we tell ourselves
Helping Young Men Rediscover Reading
First in an occasional series
It Was All on Star Trek
And it suggests something about writing to the market
Some Thoughts on Marketing Your Work
How do writers reconcile serious work with the bullshit of marketing?