Free Doesn’t Mean Worthless
Writers just want to be read, even if they have to give their work away—and stay sober.
Free Doesn’t Mean Worthless
Free Doesn’t Mean Worthless
Ken Stange
Peace in complexity
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- Writings On The Wall - January 2015
- A New Year (2015-01-01)
- Man Friday’s Ideas: Is It Plant, Animal Or Mineral (2015-01-02)
- 01-Bless Intercepting (2015-01-03)
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- 01-Only Three (2015-01-17)
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- Man Friday’s Ideas: Sweet And Sour Poetry (2015-01-23)
- 01-The Stochastic Caves (2015-01-24)
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- 04-Gradient Bridge (2015-01-27)
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- Man Friday’s Ideas: Six Years On The Island (2015-01-30)
- Writing As Recreation: Clerihews (2015-01-31)
- Writings On The Wall - February 2015
- Oliver Wendall Holmes (Literary Clerihew) (2015-02-01)
- Camus (Philosopher Clerihew) (2015-02-02)
- Ernest Hemingway (Literary Clerihew) (2015-02-03)
- Leibniz (Philosopher Clerihew) (2015-02-04)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (Literary Clerihew) (2015-02-05)
- Aristotle (Philosopher Clerihew) (2015-02-06)
- T. S. Elliot (Literary Clerihew) (2015-02-07)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (Philosopher Clerihew) (2015-02-08)
- Good Enough (2015-02-09)
- Teaching Creativity?! (2015-02-10)
- Encouraging Creativity? (2015-02-11
- Both Teachers And Art Require A Receptive Audience (2015-02-12)
- To Teach Or Not To Teach, That Is The Question (2015-02-13)
- Formal Education And Creativity (2015-02-14)
- The Real Teachers (2015-02-15)
- Sleep Learning (2015-02-16)
- A Clathic Inspiration (2015-02-17)
- Laws Of Poetry (2015-02-18)
- Bad Writing As Poetry? (2015-02-19)
- The Line Break Pseudosolution (2015-02-20)
- The Boredom Criterion (2015-02-21)
- A Real Characteristic Poetry (2015-02-22)
- Sound And Sense (2015-02-23)
- Sense And Sound (2015-02-24)
- The Poet Or The Reader Versus The Poem (2015-02-25)
- Sense And Appearance (2015-02-26)
- Poem As Image (2015-02-27)
- Merging Image And Text (2015-02-28)
- Writings On The Wall - March 2015
- Bather’s World (2015-03-01)
- Benoit’s World (2015-03-02)
- Bird’s World (2015-03-03)
- Boatman’s World (2015-03-04)
- Bone Man’s World (2015-03-05)
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- Calder’s World (2015-03-07)
- Farmer’s World (2015-03-08)
- Flow’s World (2015-03-09)
- Goldman’s World (2015-03-10)
- Hatchling’s World (2015-03-11)
- Herbalist’s World (2015-03-12)
- Hermaphrodite’s World (2015-03-13)
- Hunter’s World (2015-03-14)
- Iguana’s World (2015-03-15)
- Julia’s World (2015-16-16)
- Lover’s World (2015-03-17)
- Medievalist’s World (2015-03-18)
- Northerner’s World (2015-03-19)
- Rebel’s World (2015-03-20)
- Symbiote’s World (2015-03-21)
- Talisman’s World (2015-03-22)
- Urbanite’s World (2015-03-23)
- Waterboy’s World (2015-03-24)
- Weaver’s World (2015-03-25)
- Secret Relationship Of Science And Art (2015-03-26)
- My Early Interest In Science: Making Nitro (2015-03-27)
- My Early Interest In Literature: Reading Rabelais (2015-03-28)
- Threats To Civilization (2015-03-29)
- Evil Religion (2015-03-30)
- Evil Ideology (2015-03-31)
- Writings On The Wall - April Thru June 2015
- Political Pseudoscience (2015-04-01)
- The Blog Fog (2015-04-02)
- Backasswards Blogs: Pros and Cons (2015-04-03)
- Multimedia Blogs: Pros and Cons (2015-04-04)
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- Unguarded Blogs: Pros and Cons (2015-04-06)
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- Blog Silence (2015-04-12)
- Someone’s Home Here (2015-06-21)
- Bayou Hermitage (2015-06-22)
- Decadent Docile (2015-06-23)
- Humble Adobe Abode (2015-06-24)
- Nobody Reads That Stuff (2015-06-25)
- Nobody Even Recognizes That Stuff (2015-06-26)
- Another Reason For The Scarcity Of Readers (2015-06-27)
- Poets Have Reason To Be Envious (2015-06-28)
- We Don’t Like Being Imposed Upon (2015-06-29)
- Poetry 101 (2015-06-30)
- Writings On The Wall - July 2015
- The Cretin At The Poetry Reading (2015-07-01)
- A Reader’s Expectations & A Poem’s Expectations (2015-07-02)
- A Poem’s Expectations: Attentive Reading (2015-07-03)
- A Poem’s Expectations: Attentive Reading (2015-07-04)
- A Poem’s Expectations: Attention To Rhythm (2015-07-05)
- A Poem’s Expectations: Tolerance For Ambiguity (2015-07-06)
- A Poem’s Expectations: Tolerance For Ambiguity (2015-07-07)
- A Poem’s Expectations: Attention To Connotation (2015-07-08)
- What We Expect Of The Poet (2015-07-09)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Autonomy (2015-07-10)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Autonomy From Music (2015-07-11)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Autonomy From Image (2015-07-12)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Sound and Sense (2015-07-13)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Sound (2015-07-14)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Sense (2015-07-15)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Something Interesting (2015-07-16)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Something Interesting (2015-07-17)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Something Interesting (2015-07-18)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Something Interesting (2015-07-19)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Something Interesting (2015-07-20)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Something Interesting (2015-07-21)
- What We Expect Of The Poet: Poems (2015-07-22)
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