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Writing for a Living [online class]

This Winter, UMass Amherst helps the Nonsense Society learn the strategies and skills needed to present your books, articles, ideas, and/or yourself in a compelling and competitive manner.

How To Handle Criticism

Dear Nonsense Society,

As a community of creatives, I’m sure you all have felt scared to put your work out in the world because what if *GASP* someone hates it!?!? Well, it’s not so much the hating you are scared of, it’s the fact that they might tell you about it. In this article I will explain how to handle criticism and walk away unscathed.

How to Live a Creative Life and Succeed

So you are an artist? Musician? Poet? Mad scientist? Whatever. It doesn’t really matter. You deserve the chance to live a creative life, succeed, and be happy (because that’s important, I promise). Obviously creativity is not about money, fame, or success. However, I would love to see every artist in the Nonsense Society live off their passion. This article will help you get there.

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”Gandalf the Grey

Mellanie Carney: Poet/Photographer

I love using words to capture my feelings, and I love using a camera to capture the beauty of life.

Meet Mellanie Carney, a 28 year-old poet/photographer from New Mexico, USA. Mellanie’s submission caught the attention of the Nonsense Society, because it combines two arts in one. We are all about this! Take a look at how words and images inspire Mellanie, and hopefully they will inspire you as well. Welcome, Mellanie.

2009 Hall of Fame

2009 has been an amazing year for the Nonsense Society. Thanks to all who have supported it and watched it grow. With a redesign within touching distance, the Society is poised and ready to bring new artists, authors, musicians, and filmmakers into it’s ranks. We love your creativity. We want to help you grow. 2010 is set to be a spectacular year, but first let’s look back at the best of 2009. Enjoy.

The Nonsense Connection: Simplicity

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Nonsense Society artists reflect on simplicity.

Texas Hold’em by Cara Persico

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The porch door jolts me from my movie, my breath catching in my chest. Dad’s just come home again. It’s 5:30 A.M., another sleepless night. I’ve tried everything: Benadryl, chamomile, weed. I for sure thought the weed would work. Maybe I need to try all three together. Dad is in the kitchen. The clank of ice followed by the slosh of liquid, his daily brandy cocktail is soothing his conscience. Roxy yelps a few times in her annoying, small dog voice, but he hushes her and feeds her snacks from the jar.

Ace: King of Space, Episode I – Ace Gordon is Dead!

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Ace Gordon knocked on the door. It was an odd door, a little shorter than most, and in a bright lime green kind of color that just oozed eccentricity. The house that surrounded it was equally as odd, though not quite as lime green, as the paint had long since faded and not been reapplied. The paint on the door looked fresh however and immediately after knocking on it, the door opened, slowly and heavily as if it were on gears, which in fact it was. The room that Ace entered is hard to describe, Imagine the most gaudy room in the history of rooms. Now add some gaudiness, and then add a toy train, with a laser pointer where the smoke stack should be and that should give you an approximation of the oddity that unfolded before Ace’s eyes. From another door, further into the bowels of this odd little house, burst a man, and a coffee can. Ace, taken aback, uttered a quick hello. The man did not respond. The coffee can did.

The Nonsense Connection: Death

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A chilling collaboration of music by ChanLing Beswick, art by Jarek Kubicki, word by Cara Persico, and film by Danielle Mulcahy .

The Nonsense Connection: Lost Love

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A heartbreaking combination of the art of Jeannie Paske, the music of Alicia Santavenere, and the poetry of Cara Persico. Do you feel it?

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