Writer's Specimen

Writer's Specimen
by David Barringer
$7 | 28 pp Booklet | 117 pp Graphic Magazine on CD | Bookmark | Biohazard Bag
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"I'm blown away. This thing is sooooo good, so well put together. It really should be required reading for everyone who wants to be a writer."
Bob Sassone

The Writer's Specimen includes:

[1] "Writing Isn’t Fun"_ a 117-page Graphic Magazine about Living Well, Writing Poorly, and Dying Broke. 15 x 12. Full-color graphic infection designed especially for the monitor. In PDF. On CD. For the writer in your life. See spreads from the magazine below.

[2] "Being A Writer Means"_a 28-page minibook. Fiction. Essay. Something like that.

[3] Desktop Images_I Think By Doing, Always Start at the Top, NYC Blackout, and Writers Read Alone in Public. See thumbnail images below. 4 BMP images for Windows and PC. 1280 x 1024 and 1024 x 768.

Writing Isn't Fun (117 pp) includes:

] Experience, Advice, Lists, Information, Data, Musings, Self-Doubts, Emails, Diary Entries, Annotations, Essays, Humor Pieces, Facts & Figures_about writingWRitingwritIng__

] ] Concerning: Cover Letters, Query Letters, Agents, Letters to Agents, Pitching a Novel, Writing for Magazines, Publishing Fiction, Self-Publishing Fiction, Small Presses, DIY, Literary Readings, Going to Law School, Law-school Loves & Hates, First Amendment, Copyright, Working from Home, Having Kids at the Worst Time, Writing a Novel No One Wants, Reading, Taking Notes, Drinking, Giving Up, Not Giving Up, & More mor mo./m./ . . .

DB: This is more or less a memoir of my life of writing and what I know about it [or don't] up to this point. It's nothing so dull as that sounds. I included humor pieces about writing as well as lists and facts that will give boosts to writers looking to publish fiction and non-fiction. There are also essays and notes and little viruses of wisdom I picked up on my travels. It's rather an ambitious deal that consumed me for months on end. I didn't just slap my old writings into some horribly dull ebook format. I wrote new stuff, I annotated and updated, I used Photoshop and InDesign2 and drew on my emails and notes and essays and satires and diaries for the last ten years to make this very personal project. I've posted a bunch of pages from the magazine on this page. What you will get out of all this, I hope, is inspiration, information, infuriation, & the knowledge that you are not alone.

Below are the desktop images.

The Writer's Specimen
includes a chapbook, a CD with a PDF graphic magazine sized for the monitor, a bookmark, a few postcards and other goodies, and it's all packed in a Biohazard specimen bag. Note: The image on the cover of the CD is a photo of the statue of Joe Louis' fist in downtown Detroit.

Small images are pages from
Writing Isn't Fun,
the 117-page graphic magazine.

Below is the front and back of the bookmark.

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For information, contact David Barringer at dlbarringer AT gmail DOT com.
David Barringer is an author, freelance writer, graphic designer, artist,
and father of two future telepathic fashion-trend forecasters.
All work copyrighted David Barringer 2000-2008.