Maximizing the audience / Motives for writing

Wim Mertens, Maximizing the Audience

With apologies to Tom Petty, any serious scholar knows that the writing is the hardest part. As spring deadlines mount, I offer a little musical distraction. A nine-minute video of Maximizing the Audience appears above; samples from Motives for Writing appear below. And if your heart is still breaking, careful inspection of this paragraph should lead you to yet another musical interlude.

Enjoy!

Wim Mertens, Motives for Writing
1. Watch
2. The Personnel Changes
3. Paying for Love
4. No Testament
5. Words on the Page
6. The Whole