Fans of my MFA Nugget series--posts sharing the wisdom and personal experiences of my on-site Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA residencies--likely assumed there would be no more such posts after I graduated last summer. Well, I'm delighted to revive that series--for one post at least--with a guest blog by J.M. Cooper. J.M. currently is …
Month: January 2014
Turning Your To-Do List Upside Down
It's looming behind me as I speak, mocking me. It's my whiteboard wall, which as I noted on this blog the other day is filled with dozens of bullets of short-term tasks to advance myself as a writer and teacher. It helps my mind to have all of these to-do's written down; I feel a …
Why I Left my Literary Agent
It was the hardest professional decision I ever made. Harder than leaving a stable think-tank job to join a start-up as its CEO. Harder than walking away from that successful start-up four years later to answer the call of an art-committed life. After three years of labor, with the finished memoir in hand, I chose …
What is Your Ten-Year Plan?
My read on today's society is that it is no longer "cool" to set New Year's resolutions. Not helping the resolutions' case is that we rarely keep them; there's a reason gyms require you to buy a year-long membership rather than pay month-to-month. For me, I've never felt moved by the random change of an …
What To Expect from the Artist’s Road in 2014
Perhaps a 2014 resolution for me should be to gain readers in Africa and South America. I say that because among the dozens of responses to my survey requesting feedback on what to write about in 2014 were readers from the other four occupied continents. I also suppose the time of day I make posts …
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