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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

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

Interesting People

4 Star Mogwai
A Human Attempt at Flight
Bunsnip
cede nullis
Cockeyed.com
Cyanide and Happiness
David Cergizan.com
Fronzel
Knaphrodesiac
Poewar.com
Sarh Nielson
Sterkworks
Taun's Blog

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  - Frightened in the city (animation test)

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  - The Subtle Art of Persuasion
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  - A New Approach To Book Reading
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  - An American Stance On The Revolt Against Hosni Mub...

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  - A Brief Note of Lamentation
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  - Writing is well; music...not so much.
  - James Joyce
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  - Martha Graham and the Amazingness Thereof
  - String of updates
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  - Drawings: Walt Whitman, Dog
  - Books read in 2009

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  - E-Reading and the Apocalypse
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