My process

Blog

Earning $48,000 per year blogging takes time and effort. One must write lots of blogs, to draw people in.

Blogs need you to edit, edit, edit. Good writing comes from getting the ideas down, going back later to see how it sounds, and changing things as you see fit.

1. Research buzzworthy topics on Wikipedia.
2. Form an opinion. Do this by choosing a side.
3. Write a thesis statement.
4. Write your blog. Include information that fills in your reader.
5. Publish.
6. Go back the next week and edit.
7. Re-publish.

Collage

1. Walk to the local Walgreen’s, where you buy black and white newspapers.

2. Set them up on an art table, which you can get paint on.

3. Cut them into pieces for the juiciest words that you deem the things that need to be said, in our society, not disposing of the papers, but using them as a resource.

4. Glue them onto some special collage paper.

5. Arrange a collage around the paperscraps.

6. Draw thought bubbles to create satire.

7. Keep going.

Song

Writing songs just takes a little effort and know-how of creating music. With guitar it is easy to use tablature. One need not know music theory, though it is useful.

I write song lyrics down with the guitar on my knee. Creating the music on guitar is one step. Making up the lyrics is another. After combining guitar and verse lyrics, I think of the chorus and bridge.

1. Have a pen, paper, and a surface to write down your verse.
2. Sing the lyrics to yourself.
3. Write down lyrics for chorus.
4. Nail down vocal music.
5. Record musical notation, so it does not get forgotten.
6. Create guitar music that complements the vocal part.
7. Create music for vocal and guitar of chorus.
8. Create bridge music.
9. Practice playing entire song without stopping.

Watercolor

I love to do these. Pleasure!

1. Draw in pencil your forms.
2. Ink them in pen.
3. Add in watercolors.

Poem

1. Sit at your typewriter.
2. Type things that you are feeling.
3. Write things you want to say.
4. Incorporate literary devices (i.e. internal rhyme, perfect rhyme, and alliteration, allusion).
5. Get another sheet of paper if the topic of the poem changes.
6. When the feeling takes you to resume thinking about whatever you originally started writing about, reinsert that paper and begin writing on that poem again.