Matt Briggs

This morning while dropping my daughter off at school, we passed a neighborhood boy who has something of a reputation as a bully. He is not a bright child. He has a crew cut. He tends to wear stripped pull over shirts. He has been known to throw rocks at children. He will climb trees [...]

I left my office today and went to sit outside on the sidewalk. A man stopped to ask me for change so that he could go see his lawyer in Everett. Otherwise the sidewalk carries people who are on their way somewhere. No one is really loitering in the Starbucks at Union and 4th. There [...]

Today while walking toward the sound with my lunch in a brown paper bag, a man stopped me and asked of he could have my food. I said, no. And then I have him directions to the place where I had bought it. Although the man looked like he was going to sock me, he [...]

Engage or Perish: Analysis of Social Media Publishing for Authors in Traditional Media is now available as a Kindle Book. It is free today, and will be a dollar starting tomorrow. Get a copy now. Matt Briggs delivered a talk a panel about social media for old and young writers organized by Priscilla Long and [...]

I delivered a talk a panel about social media for old and young writers organized by Priscilla Long and presented at the Associated Writing Conference, Thursday March 1, 2012. Publishing in social media requires a fundamental re-imagining of your practice as a writer. This paper explains the framework and points to some specific tools for creating [...]

A mistake authors in the traditional media mindset make for instance is thinking that a blog is the means to get “a book deal.” What they are doing is to separate blogging from publishing. Blogging in this mind set is a kind of slightly more public version of doing the kind of work that has [...]

Everything is cement, glass, and weirdly ornate iron work. I didn’t sleep So everything is psychedelic.