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Moleskine sketchbook and G2 pen
06
Feb

Scribbling

It was the same problem every time. Beautiful new sketchbook in hand, I'd run my fingers over its high-end cover, spine, and pages. The paper? Crisp…

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03
Feb

Not a Natural Writer

Most things in life are not hereditary. I have a confession: I am not a natural writer. Heck, I'm more of a natural basketball player than I am…

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25
Jan

Asymmetrical’s New World HQ: Montana

As of February 1, 2013, the three of us—Joshua, Ryan, and Colin—have decided to establish our world headquarters in the Treasure State: namely, Missoula, Montana. Why…

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20
Jan

Create Your Masterpiece, a 16-Step Guide

Do you wish you could create something meaningful? Do you wish you had the time to work on that thing you’ve always wanted to produce—that novel,…

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20
Jan

The Best Writing Tip I’ve Learned

There is one secret that has improved my writing more than anything else. It’s a secret so simple that it seems banal to even talk about. But the…

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20
Jan

Creating Daily Writing Habits

The following transcript is an attenuated Q&A from a recent nine-page interview between Thom Chambers and Joshua Fields Millburn in the premier issue of The Micropublisher magazine. Thom…

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20
Jan

Making Money as a Writer Is a Curious Thing

The following transcript is an attenuated Q&A from a recent nine-page interview between Thom Chambers and Joshua Fields Millburn in the premier issue of The Micropublisher magazine. Thom…

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20
Jan

A Few Thoughts on Self-Publishing

The following transcript is an attenuated Q&A from a recent nine-page interview between Thom Chambers and Joshua Fields Millburn in the premier issue of The Micropublisher magazine. Thom…

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20
Jan

Too Much Branding These Days

There’s too much branding going on. I tweeted these six words the other day. I received several questions about this statement, and so I’ll attempt to expand…

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20
Jan

10 Lessons From Publishing a #1 Bestseller

A masterpiece is a difficult thing to create. We all have at least one—usually more than one—masterpiece in us, waiting to be created, waiting patiently to…

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20
Jan

Considering Your Readership

Do you consider your audience when you’re writing? I often get a variation of this question from readers and from students in my writing class, and the…

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20
Jan

The Price of Pursuing My Writing Dreams

It turns out that the American Dream was never my dream. Rather, it was competing with my dream, clouding over my revelatory desire to be a…

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20
Jan

On Becoming a Better Writer

I am not a natural writer. Hell, I'm not even sure what constitutes a "natural writer." Perhaps Joyce and Hemingway and Dostoevsky all shimmied out of…

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20
Jan

Authentic Marketing

Modern-day advertisers are nothing but aggregators of eyeballs. They get paid to encourage you to take action. What’s the best way to make you act? To…

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20
Jan

Death of the Marketing Penny

We’re all slobbering dogs, drooling on command for today’s Pavlovian advertisements. We’ve been trained by well-paid marketers and advertisers and scholars of demography. We catch a…

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20
Jan

Writing as a Daily Priority

Take a look at your day-to-day life. Through the hustle and bustle of your daily grind, what banal, tedious, mundane tasks eat up most of your…

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20
Jan

Tell a Better Story: 3 Tricks that Aren’t Tricks

As far as I can tell, there are no magical writing secrets. There is no magic wand, no set of tricks, no way to flip a…

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20
Jan

Finding Your Writing Voice

Some rules are not meant to be broken. Some are. Many rules are pliable: they can be bent and manipulated and shaped to produce a desired outcome. The beautiful…

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Skull and artifacts
15
Jan

Hello New Publishing World

The thing about sacred cows is that they don't stay sacred forever. If you look at the state of publishing just a few years ago, you…

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