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So you want to be a successful bad writer. Well, who doesn't? We all want that sweet sweet hack writer money. And why shouldn't you have your piece of that cash pie?To get that lucre, we have compiled three of our best Bad Writer's Guides. They will aid you in your quest to being rich and barely talented. This is the goal. This is the dream.The first book is The Bad Writer's Book of Cliched Science Fiction Lines. All the bad lines you dreamed you came up with, they are your...

Bad writing doesn’t just happen. It takes time and effort. Bad writing is not something anyone can do. It requires a dedicated student to master the wrong turns and poor decisions that are necessary to excel in lousy work.There are many books and workshops that offer good writing advice. But none for bad writing advice. Where can we go to get the awful suggestion?Fret no more. We have spent years compiling this helpful and useless list. There is not a good idea in the lot. ...

The universe is a woolly place.The universe is made of felt.The Big Bang was a soft though consistent annoyance.Dogs chase after runaway planets.When planets collide, it is okay because everything is felt.Neptunians are always cold and really just want to wear something cozy.And that's the thing. We want to be cozy.This issue of The Ekphrasis Take-Out is a cohesive collection of felt and the universe.This zine will be made of ...

Aren't you tired of books with plot and character and just want to read simple lists?Us too. And with that in mind, we have included four of the small books that David Macpherson wrote. They demonstrate the different ways lists can be presented as a piece of writing."501 Things to Be Wary Of" is just a goofy litany of stuff."367 Things to Do While Sitting Out a Pandemic" was written in March 2020, when the Covid lock-down began. This can be not seen as a historical ...

Where is Fancy Bread?There was a seminar on how to write the best book copy and one of the main rules is to get the potential reader's attention by a quick and pertinent question. Ask a question. Grab them. Drag them along to the rest of the ad copy.And this question is the best one yet. Where is Fancy Bread? Not only is it the title of the book, it is everything in the book. Every chapter is another time where Fancy Bread is visiting some location. He is also dressed to th...

David Macpherson tried to write a book called The North Pole Hotline and could not get past the two thirds point. Five years later, he was back to writing it. He finished it. It took a lot of effort and thought.This book you are looking at is a companion to that process. It goes through the history of the writing project and why it fell off the road. It goes through the day to day processes David took to finish it once he found a way to move forward.David also talks about o...

Who did you idolize as a kid? Who did you see as a hero?David Macpherson has asked that question to himself and assembled 100 heroes of his from before he was 13. When you are a kid, you are the most open to having a hero.Each hero gets a little essay describing why they mattered. Some of these are funny and absurd. Some are moving. There are a good deal of comic book and television heroes, but some of these were real. All too real.What David Macpherson has given yo...

All creatures, great and small, dream. It is just what we all do.With knives being alive enough, what are the dreams they have?They will dream of cutting. Of exploring. Of creating. Of protecting.They are means to understand what dreams are and what they are not.Unsheathe this chance to understand what tools think of late at night.When we think they are, at last, asleep.

What can you learn from looking deeply into the work of another writer?We hope a lot.James Kochalka is a very prolific creator of comics and graphic novels. Many of them are for children, some are decidedly adult. They have a fun, cartoony look. Kochalka has made well over fifty graphic novels and he keeps on creating them.The writer of this book, David Macpherson, was inspired by Kochalka's work. He collected and read many of them and began reflecting on what he ca...

Contents: 45 brief stories. None are deep. None are wise. Some are funny.. Some just thing they are funny. The only thing the stories have in common is that they were inspired by the titles to 45 books by Joyce Carol Oates. The stories are not inspired by the books. They just took her titles and did their own thing. You will like these stories. You will not like these stories. You will read this description and wonder why anyone would waste their time with this book. Or you can buy this bo...

David Macpherson writes every day. He does not write a lot every day, but small amounts go pretty far.For this year, he kept a written record of what he was writing and how it was going along. He get to see the story ideas that floundered and those that made it to the end. You will read the frustration of projects that are not coming together. You will also read of the summer where everything he worked on was completed and he was happy with all of it.It is a year in the lif...

You are a writer?That's awesome. I'm not a writer, but I have a great idea for a book. You should take my idea and write it and we can split the insane amount of sales this book will no doubt produce, in half.Here is my idea. I know, I should not share it with you because you might just run off and do it by yourself and leave me with nothing, though the idea is mine and we all know the idea is So much more important than the actual writing of the book. You better not run of...