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Tuesday
June 17, 2008

1:08 PM

Darcy Twarog

Hard work is a waste of time if your idea sucks

Mark Fenske teaches at VCU BrandCenter. He doesn’t post often, and he comes from the grumpy-old-man-in-love-with-the-world school of thought, but these are some great insights about the passions and pitfalls of the trade.

  • Want to be a good writer? Skip work for a ball game.
  • The audience knows you're paid to write to them.
  • Clients will be late for a meeting in their own building.
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid should have gone to Bolivia.

That’s just a small sample.

Fenske also made Van Halen’s “Right Now” video, for whatever that’s worth.

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My favourite bit of Fenske wisdom is this post, where he discusses the importance being honest about who you are and demonstrates by posting pictures of him and his relatives deep-frying an entire turkey. Best part: they're all outside in the midwestern snow, dangling a turkey from a stick above a fat fryer.

And then I said …
Pamela Haskell

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