Archive - The Malcontent Creator

The Dangerous Myth of Suffering for Art

Is art made by miserable people better than art made by happy people?

Jul 5

3:51

June 2024

The Toxic Majesty of What If

Is imagining other lives dangerous?

Jun 28

5:14

Let Yourself Suck

Doing well by doing poorly

Jun 14

4:35

Find an Agent Like a Bouse

Insights from my own successful agent-finding mission.

Jun 7

12:57

May 2024

I Have No Idea What "Publishable" Is

How I Learned To Keep Worrying And Write Anyway

May 31

7:04

How To Use Existential Panic For Growth

How impending death motivated my midlife personal development renaissance

May 24

9:37

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A private space for paid subscribers to converse and connect

May 18

Please, Stop Calling It “Content”

How should creators talk about the work they share online?

May 17

5:38

The False God of Process

Listen now | Unbegetting the misbegotten notion that there is A Way for you find.

May 10

15:46

Should Writers Use AI?

Technology can enhance creativity -- but it can also destroy creative jobs. Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT have writers worrying about their…

May 4

9:51

Should Writers Use AI?

How technology can simultaneously enhance creativity and destroy creative jobs, and what we might do about it.

May 3

4 Ethical Uses for AI In Fiction Writing

Ethical methods I've developed to use ChatGPT as a tool to enhance my writing process.

May 3

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