February 2012
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I’ve always loved House’s intro…
And to think this is the last season it’s going to be on television.
Sad times.
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“Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily...”
– Roberto Bolano, Antwerp.
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Personality and Writing. →
Want to know what sort of writer you are?
If you know your four-letter personality, you can choose it and see how your personality shows in your writing life. If not, take the Keirsey Temperament test to find out what letters you are first.
Cheers.
edit: seems like this is geared more toward writing academic papers, but i guess some of it could apply to non-academic writing…...
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“Planning to write is not writing. Outlining…researching…talking to people about...”
– E.L. Doctorow
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“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and...”
– Ray Bradbury
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25 Things A Writer Should Stop Doing (Right... →
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“She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting.”
– R.D. Larson
Raymond Carver's "On Writing" →
from Raymond Carver’s “On Writing”:
“What creates tension in a piece of fiction is partly the way the concrete words are linked together to make up the visible action of the story. But it’s also the things that are left out, that are implied, the landscape just under the smooth (but sometimes broken and unsettled) surface of things.
V.S. Pritchett’s definition of a short story is “something...
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10 ways to be invisible, or rules for making →
Elmore Leonard with rules to remain invisible when writing a book that help show rather than tell. Number 10 and the unofficial number 11:
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. A rule that came to mind in 1983. Think of what you skip reading a novel: thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words in them. What the writer is doing, he’s writing, perpetrating...
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“I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.”
– Thom Yorke
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“The truth is you already know what it’s like. You already know the difference...”
– David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
– Rumi
“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join...”
– Stephen Fry
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i’m a brutal editor… especially with writing that annoys me. repetition, horrid word choice, cliches, and comma splices make me pen-happy.
thanks, prof, for allowing genre, but no thanks for those who write on the level of Twilight.
i should do this as a side job.
anyone want me to edit their papers or stories or articles?
don’t worry, i use blue ink.
i’m...
The hill approach →
Seth Godin on the hill approach to career development:
Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills. The craft of your career comes in picking the right hills. Hills just challenging enough that you can barely make...
Caring For Your Introvert →
another one.
though it doesn’t go into the “care” part until the last sentence.
Quiet, Please: Unleashing the 'Power of... →
hi, there.
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“When we set out to write, we do not do so out of a sense of certainty but out of...”
– Andrew Miller