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Articles in this category help you improve your creative writing, either by providing exercises and methods for training your creative muscles, or by providing advice to improve the quality of your polished work.

On Art: How to Join the Consortium

Saturday, July 31, 2010

So there you have it. The Consortium, in all its glory. It took me a month of posts to make the case for it (and right at my 800-word limit just to share the executive summary of my business plan yesterday), but I hope among them all you’ve got a pretty good idea what my [...]

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On Art: Supporting the Artists to Support the Arts

Friday, July 30, 2010

The Consortium is an Oklahoma City-based non-profit organization that provides serious, talented artists with all the benefits of a traditional career path, so they can afford the time necessary to perfect their craft, and produce high-quality artwork for the public. Our Business The Consortium is founded on the systems of patronage and master craftsmanship that [...]

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On Art: The Academy of the Arts

Thursday, July 29, 2010

I’ve said several times that I started writing when I was twelve. While I was in eighth grade I finished a first novel, The Scorekeeper, which is tragically lost to the sands of time. My next effort, though, is preserved in all its emo glory. The Poet Alexander is basically the 180,000-word story of my [...]

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What I Learned about Writing this Week…from Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

That title might be slightly misleading.  Mr. Koontz’s and Mr. Anderson’s writing is, indeed, the foundation upon which this particular article rests.  But there are several additional authors whose works would make great building blocks for the ideas I’ll endeavor to convey to you today. I’ll mention some of them later.  But Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein [...]

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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 [...]

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