Skip to content

Monthly Archives: July 2010

On Document Types: Building a Business Plan

Monday, July 26, 2010

Yesterday I talked about my incredibly depressing sales pitch for the Consortium, which has somehow achieved a 100% conversion rate…. I can’t promise you those kind of results, but I do want to teach you how to build a business plan of your own. Finding Firm Foundations Last week I told you that my first [...]

Filed in For Work | | Comments (2)

On Document Types: A Sales Pitch

Sunday, July 25, 2010

If you’ve been paying attention this month, you can clearly see I’m building up to something. It’s a business model, a major social change, a grand vision. In other words, it’s a daydream and a penniless non-profit. It’s a good daydream, though, and it attracts amazing people like moths to a flame. Seriously, I’ve watched [...]

Filed in For Work | | Comments (0)

On Patronage: How to Become a Master Artist

Saturday, July 24, 2010

All month I’ve been talking about how to get paid for your writing, and this week I’m talking about how things were done in the crude, primitive days of yore — such as, for instance, the astonishing beauty of the masterworks made in the high Renaissance. That age of high artistry wasn’t an accident. It [...]

Filed in For Fun | | Comments (0)

On Patronage: Patrons, Artists, and the Public Renaissance

Friday, July 23, 2010

Yesterday I told the charming story of my opportunity to become a full-time artist on the charity of a noble patron. It was an arrangement built on bad information, but without it, you’d probably have one fewer writing advice blogs to help put you to sleep. You certainly wouldn’t have this month’s creative writing series [...]

Filed in For Fun | | Comments (4)

On Patronage: Kris Austin

Thursday, July 22, 2010

There’s nothing quite as motivating to an artist as having someone say, “I’ll pay you to create art. That’s what you’re supposed to be doing.” Meet my patron.

Filed in For Fun | | Comments (0)