Christopher Meeks | Christopher Meeks
Dec.09.2012
A poem . . . begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness…. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. —Robert Frost
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. —Oscar Wilde
Some...
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Dec.02.2012
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. —Robert Frost (1874–1963), U.S. poet.
Readers want truth. We read “how to” articles to learn things—not false things, but true things. We want to learn the truth about products and services—not some BS marketing hype. If we read something stupid or...
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Nov.30.2012
Some days or months after Al Gore invented the Internet--make it the nineties--I’d been asked by a friend working for a software company called EFuse if I’d like to write a column. “On what?” I’d asked, and he said, “On anything you want.” Basically, he wanted a number of writers creating “content...
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Oct.20.2012
On this day in October, this page of mine on Red Room reached 250,000 views around 12:30 p.m. I predicted in September that I'd hit this milestone in October. To arrive here has my head spinning. Did my ten closest friends come here a hundred times a day every day? That’s doubtful.
Rather, I have...
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Oct.08.2012
In the eighties, I was selling tile in Woodland Hills, and I was writing short stories that I showed few people. I felt naked in the stories. I knew they were good but they needed more of something. I didn’t know what “more” was, so I took a huge leap. I joined a graduate writing program at USC.
My...
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Oct.05.2012
By far the best movie theatre of my youth was the Cooper Theatre near Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was an orange circular building with a Cinerama screen. Seating was by reservation, and programs came as hardback books. The films were major events and would play for many months.
My grandmother loved...
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Sep.20.2012
Kirkus Reviews asked me out of the blue if I'd like to write about "How I Did It"--about how I achieved a level of success as an independent publisher. Considering that I've been knocking on Kirkus's door for years to have a book reviewed there, this was a nice surprise. Here's what I wrote for...
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Aug.25.2012
As I wrote a few weeks ago, The Fiction Writer’s Handbook by writer and master teacher Shelly Lowenkopf will be published in November. As the publisher, I remain in awe of Lowenkopf’s approach to offering the tools and concepts that great fiction writers use.
Yes, the step-by-step methods that some...
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Aug.15.2012
A Conversation with an Early Adapter of Self-Publishing Gone Mainstream
Boyd Morrison fits no easy stereotypes for a novelist. With a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Rice University, he first worked for Lockheed and NASA on a space station and other projects. He returned to grad school to...
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Aug.14.2012
Today I passed 200,000 page views here on Red Room. FedEx showed up with balloons and a gift basket of apples and one of the first iPhone 5's, compliments from Red Room Management. A marching band came up the street. I gave a speech to a gathering crowd how Red Room is the place to be.
Okay, none...
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