February 2012
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What are some questions that you have about...
We’re brainstorming for new episodes! But we make videos for you folks, so we want to answer your questions! Give us as many as you can think of?
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Past vs. Present - What Do People Prefer in Their...
So I’ve been writing a piece for submission to a magazine lately. It’s very fun, and I’m feeling confident about it. But while I was nearing the end of the first major section of the piece, I noticed something odd: I was constantly tense switching. Now, in the realm of novels and in English writing in general, tense switching is a big no-no. It’s typically an amateur...
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When reading a novel, do you prefer that is is...
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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...”
– Neil Gaiman (via danseurs)
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“Eight Rules for Writing Fiction:
1) Use the time of a total stranger in such a...”
– Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1999), 9-10. (via ashleynichols)
January 2012
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“‘Writing is the painting of the voice’”
– as described in Voltaire’s 1764 ‘Philosophical Dictionary’
(and remembered/recounted in a comment, responding to an article on writing is the greatest invention in More Intelligent Life)
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Acclimate Yourself to Literature
Humans acclimate themselves to the tastes of food. If you eat lots of delicately balanced and exquisitely cooked meals, you will begin to distinguish subtle tastes, textures, and flavours in these dishes. If you chomp down at McDonald’s every week, you’ll dull your senses of taste with poorly prepared meals.
Likewise, readers and writers acclimate to the literature they surround...
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How do authors pronounce their names? NEVER BE... →
bookgasms:
vaguelybritishme:
katwaterflame:
airpunchingacademic:
YESSSSS.
Neil, this is why I love you.
You understand me.
I love Neil Gaiman’s audio clip, but John Green’s is awesome, too! http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=73
Do you know that those are the EXACT TWO that I looked up as well?
I was surprised by Elie Wiesel. I’ve been saying it wrong.
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“Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me...”
– Stephen King, On Writing (via the-girl-that-no-one-ever-knows)
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“Don’t write it right, just write it—and then make it right later.”
– Tara Moss (via write-brain)
“We need the books that affect us like disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the...”
– Franz Kafka (via avidamodernaeumlixo)
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Somebody asked me why I wrote, why I had the... →
I told them that I don’t. That I don’t write and that I don’t have patience.
My fingers work - they are construction workers, building the movies i see in my mind like blocks stacked atop one another. Sometimes they crumble and fall, but my mind is there to catch them, to cup them in their proverbial palms.
I don’t have patience which is why, sometimes, some arches and some imaginary...
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What writing tags do you check on Tumblr?
Tags make my world infinitely easier, and since I like to reblog and give other folks credit, it lets me search by subject.
I keep an eye on “writers” and “writing.” But I know there must be others out there that are plentifully popular and nice. Which ones do you follow?
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“Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.”
– Jerry B. Jenkins (via ecoffeebreaks)
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Top 10 Drunk American Writers. →
be-kind-re-wind:
10] Raymond Chandler
“Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off.”
9] Frederick Exley
“After a month’s sobriety my faculties became unbearably acute and I found myself unhealthily clairvoyant, having insights into places I’d as soon not journey to. Unlike some men, I had never...
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“I get melancholy if I don’t [write]. I need the company of people who don’t...”
– William Trevor (via planb-becomeapirate)
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“Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will...”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via thecultofgenius)
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The top 100 books of all time →
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“I saw a lovely analogy recently. Somebody said that writers are like otters. And...”
– Neil Gaiman (via writersrelief)
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“Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who want to...”
– John Green (via pagesofpen)
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“I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function...”
– H.L. Mencken (via write-brain)
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5 Ways To Become A Better Writer In 2012 →
pleasedonttouchthat:
A-freaking-men to all of these
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