Dan Ritzenthaler
Design Director at Forty

Forty » Web Marketing Agency

• http://fortyagency.com/
• http://teamforty.com/
• http://wurkit.com/

Design Director for Forty, a web-based marketing and strategy company based on Phoenix, AZ. I'm responsible for making sure there's significant value in the strategy of a project and communicating it as effectively as possible to the right people.

Dan's blog: Wurkit Books

• Is this Creativity?

  Posted Thu, 26 Jun 2008 by Ritz

  Yet somehow in the face of all of this, you clear a space for the writing voice, hacking away at the others with machetes, and you begin to compose sentences. You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of [...]

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• It’s OK to suck!

  Posted Thu, 26 Jun 2008 by Ritz

  I sat in corners with my little finger hooked over my bottom lip, reading, in a trance, lost in the place and times to which books took me. And there was a moment during my junior year in high school when I began to believe that I could do what other writers were doing. I [...]

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• A Sense of Purpose

  Posted Thu, 26 Jun 2008 by Ritz

  He could go anyplace he wanted with a sense of purpose. One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around. It’s so [...]

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