June 2012
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What's that I say?
I’m starting to realize the more I talk to myself, the better my vocabulary.
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May 2012
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BookExpo America: 10 Literary Bars in Manhattan →
Compiled with the help of Lonely Planet and editor Andy Murdock.
Blue Bar at the Algonquin (Midtown)
Old Town Bar (Flatiron)
Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle Hotel (Upper East Side)
Oak Bar at the Plaza Hotel (Midtown)
White Horse Tavern (West Village)
Sardi’s (Theater District)
The Half King (Chelsea)
Chumley’s (West Village)
Kettle of Fish (West Village)
McSorley’s Old...
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6 Reasons Editors Will Reject You →
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The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator →
Generates new best selling titles for your wishful pleasure.
Crank it up.
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“All in all, I would urge readers to not pay too much attention to big...”
– Benjamin Hale, “A Passion for Immortality: On the Missing Pulitzer and the Problem with Prizes.”
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Watch“Eleanor Stokes, a self-taught animator from Eugene, Oregon has won the Douglas Adams Animation Competition. She will receive an iPad supplied by Launchpad and a Don’t Panic Towel.”
The international competition, which saw entries from the UK, the US, Australia and Finland, invited creatives to produce an animation to illustrate a rare and prophetic audio recording of Douglas Adams...
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Vindicated
The guy I sprinted past? He was in a different age group.
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That's not exactly what happened.
This morning, I won a 5k road running race in my aged category. Have never done so before.
Sprinted at the end, elbowed a guy aside (who ended up 2nd Place in the category), then shouted, “IN YOUR FACE,” after crossing the line.
That’s how my wife describes it.
Here is my rebuttal:
Someone should at least acknowledge that I looked like roadkill out there trying to keep up...
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“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis,...”
– William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958 (via writeworld)
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Stop the press: half of self-published authors... →
Tidbit…
“The majority of the information out there is about the outliers, whose success is inspiring, but as we can now confirm bears scant resemblance to the experience of most authors,” said Dave Cornford and Steven Lewis, who carried out the survey, published on Thursday, for the Taleist website.
Those who want to do best at self-publishing, they found, would be well...
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25 Reasons You Should Quit Writing →
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Mr. T would be proud too
The past three weeks, my son participated in try-outs for his soccer league’s Under-9 traveling team. He’s never done something like this before and wanted to give it a shot — why the hell not?
Pretty rigorous 3-session nerve-wracks for me and my better half. Hoards of parents at each 90-minute session walking around like agents, reading every move or expression by the...
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“To beware of the adjective is the beginning of style.”
– Paul Claudel
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“The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures.”
– Jay McInerney
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Sometimes
the sweetest taste is that of the waning hours of daylight.
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I love fat rain.
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Quite possibly the coolest analogy
Me: Well the outtie or innie depends on how the umbilical cord is cut. That's how you're connected to your mother when you're inside her, and when you come out --
Bruno: Sort of like a jack-in-the-box.
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Happy Early Morning Baking Mess Day
I’m wondering how many other fathers out there are up early trying to bake something half-edible, following the instructions in the wrong order, while his child is “helping” but really spreading the mess and eating the very double-chocolate Devil’s Food dark chocolate-chipped batter that is supposed to be baked into these tiny hard-to-pinpoint-fill cupcake cups.
Might have...
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WHEN I EMAIL A FORMERLY UNREADABLE DRAFT BACK TO A...
editorrealtalk:
I’m a writer in solid shape… email me.
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“You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the...”
– Philip Roth, The Paris Review (via lexi-gold)
This interview was published in 1984 - feels about right to point to it on this week of thinking about children and how they consume books.
(via nathanenglander)
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Super Sad True Habits of Highly Effective Writers:... →
Some examples:
Sarah Rose Etter (Tongue Party): I usually drink for about two weeks straight, and then right before I truly forget what it is to be a human being, I sober up, drink wheatgrass shots only for three days, and eventually the story comes to me as a sort of hallucination/miracle. That process has always worked for me. I believe it originated with the Mayans.
Alexi Zenter (Touch, The...
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STUDY: Fictional Characters Can Influence Real... →
I believe it. For writers, note the influence of writings in the first person…
Ohio State University researchers have released a study about “experience-taking,” the psychological term for the moment when readers find themselves “feeling the emotions, thoughts, beliefs and internal responses” of a fictional character when reading.
“The results showed that participants who read a story...
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“Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.”
– Henry Miller (from Henry Miller on Writing)
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“Screwing things up is a virtue. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very...”
– Robert Rauschenberg (via girlwithneonshoes)