April 2012
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How to Cut Thousands of Words Without Shedding a... →
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The Flight From Conversation →
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A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second...
– —Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance speech, December 2006 (via how-novelistic)
This is beautiful. I cannot explain how true this is for me.
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Canvas Cycle: True 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5 →
These are beautiful!
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Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (via larmoyante)
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reasons 1995 Pride&Prej is millions of times...
edwardspoonhands:
howardentlyiadmireandloveyou:
1995: In vain I have struggled, it will not do. My feelings will not be repressed! You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
2005: I love you! Most ardently.
(and yes Hank Green, I am watching very closely to see how you decide to word it.)
This is far in our future and currently unwritten, but know that I have heard...
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Let me underscore the obvious here: Reading fiction is important. It is a vital...
– Ann Patchett, on the no-prize fiction Pulitzer in “And the Winner Isn’t” (via irisblasi)
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Don't Just Create "On Demand," Create For You ::... →
It’s true. I have pages, documents of streams of consciousness, and it really does help sort through ideas and get a better hang of what you’re trying to do. My problem I think, is that I do it a bit more than I do anything else.
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AuthorCulture →
A blogspot of author stuff.
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Send Yourself a Rejection Letter - GalleyCat →
Now that’s an interesting idea.