Taking online painting class today w/this artist, who I’ve found one of best oil painting TEACHERS – not just painters – on YouTube so far. Teaching is totally diff’t skill: you need to be able to explain WHY and HOW you are doing something. Tougher than it sounds. Having taught copywriting and fiction classes, I […]
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Was watching an academic lecture on Caravaggio on YouTube (premium is so worth it) and found myself irrationally angry when people in the audience started asking questions. “I’m not here to listen to the comments section!!!” ? Also why I no longer argue with people online. They hijack your time. I remember when I first
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Thoughts on changing up the writing process (it’s all useful!), new podcast with Melissa Olson, and fresh fiction Hey Heroes – This month’s biggest news is that I’ve got a complete, robust outline for THE BOOK THAT WILL NOT BE NAMED completed and off to my agent and editor. My agent is over the moon
Emerging from the plague years with fresh perspective on what we’ve achieved. Hey Heroes – I know I’m not the only one who looks back at the pandemic years as “The Lost Years.” My most vivid memory of those years is sitting on the back porch in October of 2020, talking to my film and
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The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE TWENTY SEVEN: Mur Lafferty stops by to talk about her new book CHAOS TERMINAL and much more. Listen below
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It’s been a long year, but we came out the other side. Hey Heroes – If you can believe it, it’s been a YEAR since ya’ll last heard from me here, and yanno what? I have no regrets about that. The thing with being alive for a few decades is that sometimes shit happens, and
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The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE TWENTY SIX: It’s been a year, and IT’S BEEN A YEAR. Lots to catch up on, professionally and personally.
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Spooky season is upon us here in Ohio, with all that entails: the whisper of dry corn husks, the oozing piles of fat gourds, the bite of deliciously cool evenings, the fading of the tomatoes, the desiccation of the cucumbers. It is the season in which the world begins to nod its head toward a
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The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE TWENTY FOUR: Mur Lafferty joins us to discuss her new book STATION ETERNITY (out Oct. 4th via ACE Books).
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You may not believe it, but the birch trees are already shedding blankets of brown mulch, and the wisteria and white locust trees have begun sporting yellow skirts of leaves. I have been enjoying some late summer garden cleanup. Only now, as the heat and slightly shorter days has slowed the rate of growth, can
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