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I am an author, animator, artist, and student. I find personal satisfaction in writing novels, but professionally I'm interested in character animation (for which I am currently studying at Purdue University). You can email me at ben at benthewriter.com
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Previous Posts
  • The Subtle Art of Persuasion
  • How I Learned I'm Not A Hero (The Blood in the Dark in the Mist)
  • Methods of Productivity (How To Write a Novel)
  • The Inconvenient Necessity of Survival
  • Fleeing Life To Look For It
  • I Was A Prepubescent Hack
  • Eight Reasons The Kindle Is Better Than A Paper Book
  • The Meth-Head Who Bled On My Couch (And Also Taught Me Something)
  • Why I Am Not Self Publishing (But Hope Self Publishers Are Right)
  • The Beautiful Are Found At The Edge of A Room
  • A New Approach To Book Reading
  • Blood-Lust And Pride: American Vengeance On Osama
  • On Hypocrisy, Complicity, and Oppression
  • An American Stance On The Revolt Against Hosni Mubarak
  • The Future of Book Publishing
  • Too Cool For–Ah, Shit
  • Martha Graham and The Amazingness Thereof
  • Legos!
  • Faulkner and Art In America
  • The Only Quest That Matters
  • E-Reading and The Apocalypse
  • Screwed By The Postman
  • An Approach To Second Draft Novel Writing
  • Drawings of People You Know
  • The Poetic Impulse
  • Bad Poetry

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  • Taun's Blog

Blog Archive

  • ►  2012 (1)
    • ►  February (1)
      • Frightened in the city (animation test)
  • ►  2011 (22)
    • ►  December (2)
      • Music, delusion, happiness. Also, babies.
      • The Subtle Art of Persuasion
    • ►  October (2)
      • Irish Explorer With Puppies
      • Cat Attack Drawing
    • ►  September (1)
      • Real College and Three Poems
    • ►  July (1)
      • How I Learned I'm Not A Hero, or The Blood In The ...
    • ►  June (3)
      • Methods Of Productivity, Or How To Write a Novel
      • On Reading Current Literature
      • The Inconvenient Necessity of Survival
    • ►  May (6)
      • A Quick Splurge of Honesty
      • Fleeing Life To Look For It
      • I Was A Prepubescent Hack
      • How I Became A Liar And What I've Done About It
      • Blood-Lust And Pride: American Vengeance On Osama
      • Eight Reasons The Kindle Is Better Than A Paper Bo...
    • ►  April (4)
      • The Meth-Head Who Bled On My Couch (And Also Taugh...
      • Are You A Protagonist?
      • Why I Am Not Self Publishing (But Hope Self Publis...
      • The Beautiful Are Found At The Edge Of A Room: An ...
    • ►  March (1)
      • A New Approach To Book Reading
    • ►  February (2)
      • On Hypocrisy, Complicity, and Oppression
      • An American Stance On The Revolt Against Hosni Mub...
  • ▼  2010 (18)
    • ►  December (1)
      • A Brief Note of Lamentation
    • ►  September (1)
      • Badass Turtles and the Khan Academy
    • ►  August (1)
      • Virginia Woolf
    • ▼  July (6)
      • Too cool for--ah, shit.
      • Faulkner, Art in America, and a drawing of Camus.
      • In which I make a spirited attempt to be optimisti...
      • Using Cats to Herd Books
      • This post looks much better than before.
      • A note on direction
    • ►  April (2)
      • Writing is well; music...not so much.
      • James Joyce
    • ►  March (3)
      • Orwell with a sword
      • Faulkner Round Two
      • Faulkner Drawing and Novel Update
    • ►  February (2)
      • Martha Graham and the Amazingness Thereof
      • String of updates
    • ►  January (2)
      • Drawings: Walt Whitman, Dog
      • Books read in 2009
  • ►  2009 (39)
    • ►  December (4)
      • So that's new.
      • It's nighttime in the woods and my blade is gettin...
      • Drunk on Cider 2
      • New Addition To The Family
    • ►  November (1)
      • Demonstration and Camaraderie
    • ►  September (1)
      • E-Reading and the Apocalypse
    • ►  August (4)
      • 15 Books That Will Stick With Me
      • Drawing; Poetry
      • Music- American Philosophies
    • ►  July (11)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (12)
  • ►  2008 (58)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (14)
    • ►  October (11)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  June (6)
    • ►  May (9)
    • ►  April (6)
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