“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
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September12012
August312012
Mad Girl with a Blog: On Editing (posting this for future reblogs)
- You are not a bad writer. Editing is painful for everyone. It is painful for me, it is painful for you, it is painful for every writer you’ve ever liked or admired.
- Your writing is not shit. Your drafts are a deluge of ideas and enthusiasm. They are messy,…
August302012
If all of the proposed 26 “Mysteries of Vernacular” videos are as entertaining as this one, sign us up. Who knew etymology could be this much fun?
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June112012
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June22012
Issue one of The Paper Tree is now out! Featuring cover art from the wonderful Kmye Chan and containing work from some incredible creatives. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it. Click through to read!
Below are links to The Paper Tree around the net
May102012
“For a breath with you,
a moment of being yours,
I’d give up my life.”
a moment of being yours,
I’d give up my life.”
Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
This is beautiful.
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May72012
Neil Gaiman: For all the people who ask me for writing advice...
1 Write.
2 Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
3 Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
4 Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.
5 Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
6 Fix it. Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
7 Laugh at your own jokes.
8 The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
For the rest of the article with tips from other authors: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one
May42012
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The cover has been chosen, the feature interview is almost complete. The journal will be online by the end of June! I’m getting excited.
May12012
On June 26, 1956, author C.S. Lewis responded to a fan letter from Joan Lancaster, a young Chronicles of Narnia enthusiast.
In a personalized thank-you letter, the writer imparted some simple and valuable stylistic advice for budding prose writers.
1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.
2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.”
4. In writing. Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, “Please will you do my job for me.”
5. Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
You can read the rest of the letter @ Letters of Notes
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April242012
Edgar Allan Poe <3 Written in the year that his wife passed away. I think it’s beautiful.
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