No need to worry about your art—care for yourself. But not for yourself—do it for everyone.
The Most Important Lesson on the Artist Path
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Writing: Coordinating the Chaos – Reflections from Then to Now
by LukeSpartacus •
You know that pleasant wave of nostalgia that washes over you when the sun does his bright orange dance behind the three massive volcanoes who hold quorum around here
Emma Larkin on Self-Publishing, Crowd-funding, and her Novel Mechalarum
by LukeSpartacus •
I met Emma Larkin a few years back at a writer’s meetup in New York where she gave a presentation about how she successfully crowd funded the self-publication of her sci-fi novel, Mechalarum. Since then, I’ve been failing to follow up on my offer to review her book, not responding to her emails in any rational…
3 Lessons from 3 Years Freelance Writing
by LukeSpartacus •
Two years ago, from a couch in Brooklyn, things seemed to be simultaneously going horribly awry and working out just splendidly. I was a year into the dream of supporting myself by freelance writing. I had just returned stateside from Kenya, where I covered their 2013 elections as a freelance journalist. But that trip, and…
Do you have a book inside of you: Pros and Cons of NaNoWriMo
by LukeSpartacus •
Share your words, songs, secrets, or paintings—there is no need to be ashamed of what you create with your heart. Do you have a book growing inside of you? Perhaps you should see a doctor? Or maybe you are one of the 4 out of 5 Americans who believe they have a book to write.…
Writing Retreat On “My” Mountain
by LukeSpartacus •
I am playing the best pool of my life. Not once, in four games tonight did I cause the cue ball become airborne and jump over the f-cking rail of the third floor loft of an Assisi bar, falling three stories below into the dinner of an displeased Italian man capable of wild hand gesturing…
Running is Writing and Writing is Running
by LukeSpartacus •
I am at the entrance of a stone staircase built into the side of Antigua, Guatemala’s Cerro de la Cruz, Hill of the Cross. This is the beginning of a an 8k run dubbed some years back the “Suicide Death Run Sponsored by The Sore Calves Inc.” Every bit of the 8k is different degrees…
Thank You TBEX For the Gift of Squirrels Playing Banjos
by LukeSpartacus •
It could have been my youthful love of spandex that led me to join the gymnastics team as a kid, but most likely it was it my fondness of the foam pit, where a strapping lad could catapult through the air and land in a soft sea of unbroken bones. Regardless the motivating force, my…
Poetry Sits Its Bottom Down At The Peanut Underground
by LukeSpartacus •
Some came here looking for it, asking for it, basking in it and bleeding it. They packed their bags and hopped a plane or train wearing their I’m-going-to-go-off-the-deep-end trunks. Some came here for other reasons—jobs probably—and heard its whisper rise to a cry and threw their brief cases out the office window and flipped off…
Days Writing in Rural Kenya
by LukeSpartacus •
My days in rural Kenya have fallen in a a routine, a necessary state of affairs if I’m to do what I’m setting out to here. The passage of time is marked by dinosaurs. Each morning as Anita prepares tea and breakfast, I ask her to pick a color. She picks red, yellow, green or…
