New School
Just a form, a registration fee and $130 and you, too, could spend your next four Thursday nights standing at an easel before a blank canvas wondering who the hell you think you are.
Read MoreIt's Time for Your Self-Evalution!
It read like the journal entry of a struggling hack grappling with emotional, intellectual and creative insecurities through the fog of her narcissism. It did not read like a professional person cooly evaluating her strengths and weaknesses, her accomplishments and her shortcomings in the course of executing her work. I could see my boss rolling his eyes as he read it.
Read MoreThe COVID Chronicles, Part VI: Existential Crisis Edition
Being an advertising copywriter is much closer to being a writer than a lot of other writers get to. Maybe I should just be grateful for that proximity and stop with my delusions of being a Writer with a capital W. So what if I never see the words “A Novel by Sage Romano” in the real world. Who the fuck cares?
Read MoreCreative is. Creative does.
A simple fact that is glossed over or ignored in advertising (among lots of other things) is the fact that we are all at the mercy of our professional environment. You could have the most creatively facile mind that is sizzling with incredible ideas, but if you don’t have the right client, the right agency or the right team to help you, all those hot ideas are for shit.
Read MoreRocking Out with Sisyphus
Self-doubt and creativity are two symbiotic ingredients in the swamp of an artist’s brain that are locked in a copulating mind-fuck that proclaims your brilliance in the same thrust as it reaffirms your abject stupidity and the ultimate futility of your efforts.
Read MoreDirty Words
Because I wanted to be exactly like her, nail art and all, I decided that I, too, would one day write erotica on the side, and thus pave my road to financial security, whilst I toiled at meaningful novels and dark short stories.
Read MoreBrain Worms
If I thought my DFW infection was bad after reading a short story collection or two, steeping myself in the likes of Infinite Jest is proving catastrophic to my productivity.
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