Promise of the Page: Creative Writing Mindsets

You create and become something. This article explores a unique creative writing topic: the mindset of what exactly the page offers each creative writer. It explores the thoughts of success, hard work, as well as the promises of the story, the life, and the happy ending.

Promise of the Page: Creative Writing Mindsets
By Jacob Malewitz
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Maybe you promised a lover you would come back … but you didn’t. Perhaps you decided to be an artist when you got rich …but the riches were never found. Maybe you promised yourself you would go back to the page … but you forgot the promise of the page. Forgetful writers do such things, saying one thing, doing another. Creating is an act handed down to us; the strongest act of free will. The page offers each of us a promise–of success.

Can You Be an Online Writer?

Ask and you shall receive—that should be the tagline for the online writing world, where more and more are going into the creative writing trade. Why? Because there is a huge need for new streams of content. Content means profit. Online writers have advantages over print writers, like the speed of selling articles. This piece explores a rising topic in the online world: becoming a creative online writer.

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Can You Be an Online Writer?
By Jacob Malewitz
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Why on earth would you want to be an online writer? They get paid less than normal writers … work long hours … and don’t even get credit for their work1 False points, with some truth to them. Actually, some online writers earn more profit than career freelance magazine or business writers. Why?

The Novel Writing Art

Novel writing requires many things. This article focuses on the novel writing art as being about determinations, having a sense of yourself, and forming an opinion of the world. After all, the novel is the purest way to tell a good story. There is nothing between the novelist and the reader. This article explores just that, in a creative sense, by the author of a book on creativity.

The Novel Writing Art
By Jacob Malewitz

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Building a book from beginning to end is like walking around with all your emotions on your sleeve, reacting to everything with fear. Meaning: there’s a quiet madness to writing a novel. It’s not out of the question for someone used to using a computer all day—in a nice shiny cubical—to see no problem with novel writing. But think about it: you’re sitting, writing down a story, from within your head, all based on how you see the world.

Northwind, a Boom! Studios Fantasy GN

North Wind
by David Digilio, Francisco Gamboa, Renato Faccini, and Alex Cal

Boom! Studios Graphic Novel

Review by Jacob Malewitz
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If you want a surreal modern fantasy, look for something good, better than a story about Potter maybe, or perhaps just to the rising fantasy comic book medium. Crossgen Comics Sojourn did it well (I reviewed that series here).
With rave reviews, a good eye on quality, high end artwork, and a fascinating story not of an ancient or medieval time, but a future not so far away—North Wind is here and it made a splash.

Jeremiah Harm, A Boom! Studios Classic

Jeremiah Harm, A Boom! Studios Classic
Review by Jacob Malewitz
Graphic novel written by Alan Grant and Keith Giffen, art by Mike Leib and Rael Lyra

Boom! Studios

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Jeremiah Harm was not too long ago my first taste of Boom! Studios. Oddly, Jeremiah is still my favorite character of the rising publisher, my favorite series put out by Boom, and in my mind at the top of writing and illustration for any book Boom has put out.

Jeremiah Harm is underrated, a true classic which made a small splash but should have made a bigger one.

From Artist to Novelist, The Unpublished Guy Speaks

From Artist to Novelist
By Jacob Malewitz

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Oddly, I began with the notion of short stories. Short stories by the hundreds! Writing short stories, selling short fiction to the biggest markets, even if they didn’t publish anything close.

Then came the idea of the novel. What writer hasn’t though of writing a novel? In my experience, the natural progression of any artist is to go big, to take the big gamble, and then to see what happens.

What kind of artist are you?

Aliens Omnibus Volume 2, Review

Aliens Omnibus Volume 2
Review by Jacob Malewitz, Author of the Inspirational Writing guide, The Writer Who Smiles
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Where the Alien films, so masterful with horror and scares early on, turned to clichés and failed, the Aliens comics have over time become all the better. The first Omnibus was pure entertainment, drawing on the characters of the first two films, adding new elements (like devastating Earth), and, in short, evolving into classics. Yes, Aliens become almost clichéd in horror. But Aliens is the beginning of a horror story with a science fiction plot.

Aliens Omnibus Volume 1, Review

Aliens Omnibus Volume 1
Review by Jacob Malewitz
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That monster in the dark has a face, but no name. That monster sitting in your chest has no eyes, but it has teeth. In the end, it can/will end you, because, this is an alien of the most beastly kind, the kind which follows you not for the hunt, but for the blood. And it’s blood, like acid, is far from a show of weakness.

Idea to Print: the Online Journalist Publishing

Idea to Print: the Online Journalist Publishing
By Jacob Malewitz
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Ideas come in waves, but careers themselves are the biggest of splashes. One career I am currently focusing on is the online journalism career, where you make money online writing or make money blogging. Blogging is journalism? What!

Purpose of the Creative eBook

Purpose of the Creative eBook
By Jacob Malewitz

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I wrote an eBook mainly because time was running out, or so it seemed, on my freelance content writing career. I wanted to make the big bucks, but figured I couldn’t. It seems the purpose of the “creative” eBook is less about money and more about the experience. Let me tell you a story …