Aaron Goldfarb's Blog, page 4
June 21, 2011
"The Writer's Manifesto" and a Fruitless Labor
I've only known Jeff Goins (and his blog) for a brief time, but I've quickly fallen for it. His intoxicating, no-nonsense posts are always helpful for discussing, in layman's terms, complex things I really care about: marketing, increasing one's online presence, and, yes, writing. Today he released a "one-sitter" manifesto on the latter subject, and [...]
June 20, 2011
The Future is About…Making Connections?
I met my girlfriend at a bar. This is considered weird nowadays. You don't meet people at bars. You meet them online. Just ten years ago people would gloss over the fact they had met their current partner on JDate or Match or Ashley Madison. That was weird. But not any more. Now it's weird [...]
June 17, 2011
The 5 Things GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP Can Teach us About the Future of Books
I wanted to hate it. I wanted it to only be a stupid gimmick. But, I don't and it's not. Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes's "Go the Fuck to Sleep" is already a massive hit, achieving the #1 spot on Amazon before it was even released and currently residing at #1 on the NYT's Bestseller [...]
June 16, 2011
Watching Other Couples Fight – Murray, Hillary, and the Bed & Breakfast
For a writer, being in love is the death knell for producing quality content. Lust is the most important topic of writing. It has been since whomever was the person that wrote about a man named Adam so horny for a girl named Eve that he'd depart with a bone in order that he could [...]
June 15, 2011
"I read your book. It's…gross."
I walked up to the father of the bride and offered my hand. "Mazel tov." He looked at me curiously. "Thank you." He smiled oddly. "I read your book. It's...gross." He'd clearly racked his brain for the most fitting, yet kind word he could come up with, and "gross" was sadly it. My [...]
June 10, 2011
What Will Audiences Think?
Last night I met a collaborator at a bar on the UES to discuss a potential TV pitch. We're both in love with the concept and think it will make for an amazing cable television series (lots of patented Goldfarb cursing and intense sexual situations!). I'd already written a pilot script and, though it was [...]
June 9, 2011
How to Get Free Shit
The other day, my new friend Tyler Hurst Tweeted that he wanted to get on "lists" like I'm on. By that, he meant the free shit lists. What are the free shit lists? And how do you get on them? Why let me explain... Despite the gangsta rap lifestyles you see all these novelists around [...]
June 3, 2011
Being an Asshole, Telling Someone They're Doing Something Wrong…and Then Them Wanting to Be Your Friend
I received an e-mail the other day that skirted the line between robotic spam and simply poor marketing spam: I found out about this coupon that will let you download the story "Bed Green" for FREE! It is a women's fiction about a boy that lives in the desert with his family! He learns things [...]
June 2, 2011
Writing a Diner Menu – DELETED SCENE #12
If you've read "How to Fail" and haven't yet left an Amazon review, please take 30 seconds to do so here and keep spreading the good word, even to your friends that can't read. This passage was originally the ending to HOW TO FAIL's Footchapter 2: "How to Go Insane and Garner Voices in Your [...]
June 1, 2011
Striving to Be an "F" Student
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." --John F. Kennedy I've started picking up freelance writing gigs as of late. Now what usually happens is a magazine or a website will ask me to write something for [...]
