Here's the Money

I expect a pleasant show of enthusiasm.

I feel like a snake that has shed its skin

"...except that I’m the skin and not the snake.”

Damn. 

Teaching Artists To Use Guns

Because that is the first skill they should acquire

Exorcising the Writing Demon

Get a job! Chase the American Dream! But for God's sake, throw that childish bullshit about being a writer out the window.

One Los Angeles novelist attempted to do just that. Orgasmo.