Write Conscious Unscripted

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Topics Covered

* Where to start reading Cormac McCarthy

* Comparing Pynchon’s...

What is up, everyone! We are back with another video featuring two authors whose bibliography we are reading through in the Write Conscious book club, Ernest Hemingway and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Today’s video explores Ernest Hemingway’s thoughts on Fyodor Dostoevsky and the challenge of living in the shadow of such a great author.

If you ...

A new article on Cormac McCarthy just DROPPED, exploring his 20,000-book collection and talking about some of his odd idiosyncratic behaviors.

This video breaks all of that down, but more importantly, it is a motivational video for all my writers out there to PIVOT, away from the old mindset that drove people like McCarthy and toward ...

What is up, everyone? Sorry, I haven’t been active for the last week. I have two videos other than this that will also hopefully be released tonight!

But here is the live stream from the other day, in case you missed it. Some of the topics covered are

* The Write Conscious Live event

* Black Metal

* Digital Humanities

* Surveillance Socie...

If you’re going to become a full-time author, by the time you get there, you will have thousands of people (if not more) who hate you and your work.

You'll also probably deal with endless rejections to literary magazines and not get other opportunities that smaller authors following the traditional path get (interviews, speaking gigs,...

We are live, everyone! Here is my three-hour free course I first published in my free writing school last year, on how to build an audience on Substack.

In the past 10 months, this course has helped dozens of authors find hundreds of readers, and helped hundreds of authors find dozens of readers.

This course works no matter what you’re writing, schizo fiction, love poems, Jungian essays, and whatever else will work in this system.

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Boom! Here is an almost two-hour livestream of me taking questions from all the free subscribers out there! Things got wild in this stream, and we talked about so many crazy things. If you want your question answered by me, make sure to catch me next week!

If you want to watch the stream, consider clicking here and subscribing (or showing up live) to the Write Conscious Substack. You will also get access to our book clubs, courses,...

Boom! We are back at it again, with a motivational video for all my writers out there. Today, we are going to talk about two of my new translations from Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus (posted below) that will be in my forthcoming book, Desert Orpheus.

Rilke will show us why every writer needs to be both a SAD BOY/GIRL and a happy camper t...

We are back with another ranking video, where I can explore the ten best African American authors. These selections range from poets to novelists and even rappers. I am excited to release this list, as there are plenty of less popular authors and esoteric books I’ll probably not have a chance to talk about on YouTube for a long time.

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The Cormac McCarthy course continues. Today, we are doing a full breakdown of Cormac McCarthy’s “Child of God.”

Child of God is one of McCarthy’s most accessible novels and is his shortest, coming in at only 30,000 words. If you love Southern Gothic literature, violent novels, and books that explore the dark side of humanity, this is a...

Today’s video is to help reorient and ACTIVATE all my writers out there.

Your work is important, but many writers struggle with seeing the importance of their work, not just in terms of finding/sacrificing the time to put into it, but also its importance to the world.

When you have a small or no audience, it can feel like you’re writi...

We are back with a motivational video for all my soul-jahs out there who are writing and trying to make it happen on here. I believe in every one of you, and this message is for you, and will hopefully be a source of positivity for you to push through whatever blocks or hardships you have right now.

Don’t fall into the b******t being ...

Watch more videos in the Poetry Course here

Ezra Pound is one of the best poets of the 20th century, and in this video, I’ll be showing you how to write like him. Throughout the presentation, we will break down five poems by Pound, some of my poetry, and talk about Pound’s advice to be a great poet!

Pound is one of my biggest influenc...

What is up to all my literary crusaders out there! We are back with another video where I break down my daily routine and hopefully inspire you to reimagine how you approach life and literature.

I work a full-time job, have a family, and hobbies like most of you guys, and even though I am PUMPED in this video, I also understand how ha...

Poetry is the dark cousin of fiction that often gets overlooked, but pound for pound, it is more transformative.

Everyone wants to be the next Cormac McCarthy or David Foster Wallace, make millions, and bask in the fame.

But, I am here for the MOVEMENT, and I don’t care how we get to the end goal

Waking up a billion new readers —

Poetry...

We are back for another internet first, everyone. Today, we are exploring how Cormac McCarthy wrote his first drafts by studying his only available first draft!

Was McCarthy a panstser or planner? Did McCarthy edit as he went? Was McCarthy’s prose as good in the first draft as the last draft? All of these questions and more will be an...

Boom! We're back, everyone, with some Substack-only content that would be shadow-banned on YouTube in an instant.

Today, we are talking about novels that cover the most famous conspiracy theories, and I am excited to throw my hat in the ring, and try to separate fact from fiction (LITERALLY.)

If you are sensitive or scared of fringe a...

Over in the Write Conscious Q&A, I got a ton of questions about how to get better at interpreting literature.

Well, my favorite bang-for-your-buck method, which no one ever talks about, is becoming symbol-literate.

Once you do this, you will be able to tackle the hardest novels (or any art) and understand what is happening on the firs...

What is up, everyone? We are back for another month of reading. Down below is the book club schedule for the month. Click on each title to be taken to the individual book club page for more information, as well as the link for the call.

Also, please click here for the August/September book club schedule. We are reading some long classics, so I want you to be prepared.

July Book Club Schedule

July 5th - Infinite Jest Pt. 3 - 9-10:30 A...