Corey Stewart is offering a free eBook — so it won’t hurt to check it out.
“30 Ways To Supercharge Your Gigs”.
Download it here and check out the rest of his site at Corey Stewart Songwriting Tips
WADE
The Comics Reporter is hosting a fundraiser for a charity helping children with cancer and other illnesses, as well as improving youth literacy rates.
If you’re interested in more details, check out the details at their web site.’
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Our Favorite Note Taking Nerd has set himself a 90-Day-Challenge for self-improvement, the goal of which is to make him a better copywriter, lover, citizen, whatever.
Lewis LaLanne determined to exercise each day, study copywriting and marketing material, drinking lots of water and practicing his typing.
I’d exercised for the day, I’d studied some kind of marketing/copywriting material, I’d spent 30 minutes on Typing Master honing my typing skills, I’d downed 75 ounces of water… and then I forgot to do some release technique homework.
He’s gone through over half of his predetermined program.
Lewis will tell you all about it (beware, some of the language is adult and NSFW) at his terrific site MyNotetakingNerd.
He’s got a lot of valuable FREE material on his site and I strongly urge you to sign up for his mailing list if you are a serious marketer.
WADE
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It’s nice to hear that SongWriting Fever Blog will be updated with new content soon, after an extended absence.
I recommend this site, and look forward to the updates.
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Chris at The Guitar Lesson Review Blog has posted a review of Dan Denley’s Lead Guitar Secrets course.He gives it a strong recommendation — and he has tried it out.
I’d give a strong recommendation that you visit his site and read the full review and see if this course on soloing is for you.
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I’m guessing that there are a fair amount of comickers who follow our li’l site, and I’d like to ask a favor of them. I’ve got a vaudeville-themed board game that I’ve designed, and I’m looking for some spot illustrations for the cards. There are 45 cards to illustrate, so I’m looking for as many folks to contribute as I can find. Do one card, do five, anything you can contribute would be appreciated and will really help!
Catches? Oh, I’ve got a handful of catches… Firstly, there’s no money in this deal. I’m looking for folks who love to draw, who love old stuff, and who love Barnacle Press. Next, I need these illustrations by this coming Monday, the 16th of November, one week from this very moment! I’m heading to the wonderful BoardGameGeek.con convention next Wednesday, and I need to assemble my game to bring along.
The upside? Well, I think that any follower of this site will find the subject matter to their liking. It should really be a lot of fun to draw these things, and I’m just looking for black and white cartoon portraits of people. No wild action, no backgrounds. The end result will be a Creative Commons licensed, free print ‘n’ play board game that will be available here at Barnacle Press. And a plus: it’s actually a really fun game!
If you’d be interested in lending your pen to my cause, drop me a line with a link to your work, and I’ll send you a link with more information: my name is Holmes, this site is BarnaclePress.com. I’ll wager you can figure out my email address…
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EXCERPTED FROM: The Comics Journal
It’s my understanding that venerable industry news and criticism magazine The Comics Journal let the world know today that Tim Hodler and Dan Nadel will be taking over the magazine’s web iteration.
Hodler and Nadel are best known as an editorial team in terms of their work on the magazines The Ganzfeld and Comics Comics. Nadel has also written two lauded books for Abrams collecting artists that worked in mainstream comics that might have been alternative creators in modern times, and is the driving force behind the art comics publisher PictureBox.
Tim and Dan are among my favorite writers about comics and favorite comics people generally. I look forward to what they bring to the Journal, and I greatly look forward to their long overdue attention to a proper on-line archive.
Read more on Comics Review Newsmaker Interview: Dan Nadel, Tim Hodler Of TCJ…
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I don’t know — Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never really found Garfield that funny.
If you’ve never seen the comic strip before and you start reading it on Monday, you will know all the jokes by Friday. From then on it’s just variations on the same few situations.
Garfield is lazy, he loves to eat, he’s crazy about Lasagna, his master is a dull and dim-witted fellow.
So what could you do to improve Garfield?
Irishman Dan Walsh has a project called “Garfield Minus Garfield” or “G-G” in which — well, I’ll let him explain it.
Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.
So you might wonder if simply deleting the title character from the strip actually improves it. Maybe — maybe not. But it certainly can’t make it any worse.
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