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Avoiding Literary Masturbation (Or Three Things You NEED To Consider About Audience)
There are many reasons to write. Whether you write for self-expression, to get stuff out of your head, or simply for the pure joy of creation, being a writer is not defined by sales, profits, or bestseller status. However, in terms of writing as a career or even as a devoted hobby, it doesn’t matter … Continue reading »
What is An Author Collective?
Let’s be honest: writing has never been a path to fame or fortune. As writers, very few of us achieve overwhelming economic success. Enough to survive, to keep us together between grants and residencies, or just enough to keep writing for the demands of publishers. Publishers themselves are mostly looking for the “next bestseller,” and … Continue reading »
Chett Tiller: Lies A Lot
Chett Tiller is named after a grandfather who he never met and raised to be a scientist or a mathematician for NASA. Unlike NASA, Chett has proved that there’s life on Mars, little green life that wants to turn your brains into some kind of delicious and gray empanada. He is, after all, an investigator … Continue reading »
Introducing!
…the Juniper Bends Author Collective. We are a passionate group of young writers based in Asheville, NC, brought together by our love of the written word–not as a consumable product, but as self-expression, communication, art. We despise boundaries, refuse to be confined by genre or form, and adore the weird and wonderful. Juniper Bends began … Continue reading »
