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June 9, 2015
Download It and Turn It UP! My Summer 2015 Playlist
Summer music is a genre unto its own, and can’t be easily qualified or quantified as a particular “type.” But I’ll give it a shot. Bright, breezy, pop or soul that doesn’t drag you down with burdensome weight. But that doesn’t mean it can’t have some guitar crunch and (maybe) a message. You just don’t […]
April 27, 2015
In Praise of Unconventional Career Choices
Spring means many things – renewal, the promise of a fresh start, the fragrance of blossoming flowers – but for the under-20 crowd the only scent during this time of year is the reek of fear sweat and desperation. Yes, it’s graduation season. Welcome to the real world, kids. Appropriately, I’ve been chatting with lots […]
April 20, 2015
Jake the Dog Brings Your Monday Writing Motivation
Filed under: Animation, Business, Codorus Press, Fun, Inspiration, Motivation Tagged: Adventure Time, animation, Codorus Press, dog, inspiration, Jake, Monday, motivation, scott b. pruden, writers, writing
March 30, 2015
Monday Motivation: The Writer and the Altered Mental State
Back when I wrote a weekly column for my home town’s newspaper, I took it upon myself to occasionally add a hefty dose of weird to my readers’ lives. Many times, this was accomplished simply by my being … me. I could take a while to list all the ways I never quite fit the […]
January 27, 2015
Tuesday Writing Tip: Every Generation Has Something to Say
I’m a child of the late 1960s, which – if you do the math of generational pigeonholing – puts me squarely among what has historically been referred to as Generation X. Because we can with some clarity recall live in the final 30 years of the 1900s, we are the last of the true 20th […]
December 15, 2014
Monday Motivation: Better To Ask Forgiveness …
Filed under: Art, Cool Images, Freelance, Independent Publishing, Inspiration, Motivation Tagged: art, forgiveness, graffiti, greatness, inspiration, Monday, motivation, permission, rebel
December 10, 2014
Wednesday Writing Tip: The Best Genre is the Genre Mashup
This video, brought to us by the fine – and brilliant – folks at Postmodern Jukebox – is a stunning example of what I like to call a genre mashup. Assuming you have any perspective on 20th century music and 21st century TV, it’ll be easy for you to get most of the references above. […]
November 7, 2014
Funky Friday: Finding the Funk in Surprising Places
Anyone who’s spent more than 10 minutes reading past posts from this blog know that I’m a fan of fusion – both literary and musical. Some of the best examples of both come when someone known for one genre or style tries something new, or just decides to incorporate elements of the “other” into their […]
October 27, 2014
Happy Monday! Give This Week the Beatdown It Deserves!
Filed under: Fun, Inspiration, Motivation Tagged: Aunt Esther, classic, inspiration, Monday, motivation, Sanford & Son, scott b. pruden, TV
October 13, 2014
Because It’s Monday, Classic ‘Star Trek’ Characters Rendered in Pixar Style
It’s hard to recall that there was ever anything wrong with Pixar, but anyone who watched the short subject Tin Toy, which preceded the release of Toy Story by seven years, knows that the studio’s animators had a LONG way to go with figuring out how to render the faces of anything other than children’s […]
