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Jim Mitchem

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Jim Mitchem is a copywriter who found his way into advertising via a dirt path on the outskirts of society. Born with no obvious talent, Jim began writing at a young age as a way to lasso the stories that ran circles in his mind. Dismissed as folly when he shared them, he gave up writing for drinking at the age of 17. After a stint in the USAF, and armed only with a pen and looseleaf paper bound by elastic, Jim meandered through the US until he awoke in a gutter in New York City in 1991. His life and his writing have improved significantly since giving up booze. And while he doesn’t think that’s a coincidence, he does consider it damn ironic.

Minor King is his debut novel.

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Jim Mitchem I've never had the classic definition of writer's block. I think being a copywriter has helped. In advertising we have to seamlessly move from one con…moreI've never had the classic definition of writer's block. I think being a copywriter has helped. In advertising we have to seamlessly move from one concept/brand/product to the next. There's no time to get bogged down. As a result of doing this for years, I don't dwell on things too long. When I sit down, I write. (less)
Jim Mitchem For most of us, writing is unsustainable. That is, unless you decide to manipulate the system. Whether it's writing to the template of an established …moreFor most of us, writing is unsustainable. That is, unless you decide to manipulate the system. Whether it's writing to the template of an established and profitable genre, blogging to headlines that grab eyeballs and generate ad revenue, or selling out to the commercial sector, when you game the system you're being true to the system and not the art. Real writing is authentic and not driven by revenue. Being a writer is a curse.
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Death by Grammar

Murder is ridiculous. Especially your own. But you have to take a stand for something in this world.

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“Regret is more than inevitable, it's a constant companion. A relationship that becomes comfortable. Regret never wants to break up.”
Jim Mitchem, Minor King
tags: regret

“Dream is not the thing you see in sleep but is that thing that doesn't let you sleep.”
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“Regret is more than inevitable, it's a constant companion. A relationship that becomes comfortable. Regret never wants to break up.”
Jim Mitchem, Minor King
tags: regret

“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.”
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov

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