November 2011
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barefoot wondering: if i was to write a YA novel... →
rhirhian:
if i was to write a YA novel it would not be a romance. it would be an anti-romance. it would be about how school girls interact with each other and how messed up it can be.
it would have to have a period scene, because WHY in no YA novel i have read do they not talk about how messed up it is…
August 2011
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Ladies Making Comics: How media clearly reflects... →
ladiesmakingcomics:
How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in ourselves.
I wanted my first-year film students to understand what happens to a story when actual human beings inhabit your characters, and the way they can inspire storytelling. And I wanted to teach them how to look at…
February 2011
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“[ON SELF-PUBLISHING:] If your book fails, it may be because you need to learn...”
– Carla Speed McNeil (via ladiesmakingcomics)
January 2010
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JHE's Guide to Getting a Book Deal
jeanhannah:
When the marvelous Rachel Hills asked me to contribute to her post about how to get a book deal, I got a bit overexcited and basically wrote an essay. So it wouldn’t go to waste, I decided to post it here.
Disclaimers: I used to work in publishing, and I keep up to date on the industry for my blogging purposes (and personal interest), and I do a little critiquing of new writing on...
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Short Story Challenge Day 3 - Your round
Bethan Jones shook the snow from her big white boots on the ironwork shoe scraper outside the Albany. Blethyn strode ahead into the lounge, determined to find a booth that would seat four of them. He hated sitting around the tables in the middle of the room. He needn’t have rushed though - Pat and Roy were already there, sitting on the deep red corner sofa next to the back door. Blethyn...
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Short Story Challenge - Day 2 - petey's giblets
Creaking chair legs. A thump. petey leans over the back of the chair and leans on the kitchen counter, resting his face on his upturned hands, eyes glazed over, transfixed. Shrieking cartoons. Cookery books. A thump, thumping behind him.
“petey pass the flour, will you love?”
petey reaches out to his left and feels around on the counter, not letting his eyes leave the TV screen. He...
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Short Story Challenge - Day 1 - PricklyJesus.Org
Carl pulled his kafia a little closer round his ears. It seemed to make little difference to the sharp January wind. He tried to leave his tiny flat by the canal in Islington rarely, even in the summertime, and his battered leather jacket - and his wardrobe generally - flapped ineffectually, inviting the cold in. Icey water pumped up through a hole in his vintage converse - a bad choice of shoe,...
December 2009
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October 2009
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“The Internet is mostly unreadable not because of the way it is written, but...”
– SO WHAT EXACTLY IS CONCEPTUAL WRITING?: an interview with Kenneth Goldsmith - BOMBLog (via britticisms) (via somethingchanged) (via iainbroome)
September 2009
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Stephen Fry on Writing - Emerging into the Light
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tarts:
Cut and pasted from here:
A deadline met: such relief. You would think that after so many years I might have mastered the art – not of writing – but of putting myself in a position to write. Many writers are, like me, fascinated by process. From an early age I wanted to know whether authors worked by morning or night, whether they typed or wrote by hand and if so on...
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August 2009
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Weezer - Kids / Poker Face
perez hilton gaga archive →
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June 2009
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I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stuff:...
buyhercandy:
So, today I got my mark for that essay I wrote on hipsters a couple of weeks ago. 92! Since I’m so stoked with that, I thought I might upload what I wrote for everyone to read. It’s available here in .pdf format, if you fancy.
Of course, much of what I’ve written will be rather obvious to anyone even vaguely familiar with hipsters or with how subcultures work, but as it is an...
May 2009
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GIVE IT UP
give it up - get over it, get over it, get over it, get over it.
if only it was that easy.
why do we keep returning to painful memories, weird things? keep picking at the scabs of the past? do we think it will make us feel better? why can’t we just move on?
April 2009
3 posts
Just had...
a moderately excrutiating experience where work colleagues asked if I had a blog. I said yes. I gave them the address of another blog I keep - where the second item down was a fairly open account of how I had lost a friend, and dealing with the grief. I was mortified. I shouldn’t have given it. And why, yet, should it bother me that people I vaguely know read it, when it’s open to...
Nadja you're not
I read Breton’s Nadja this morning on the tube and considered the fleeting nature of ghosts in the city. The more I chase you, the more you back away. You hide behind billboards and lamp posts, behind buses. You are a flash of light from a motorcyclists helmet, you are the last tube home that I just missed. You are the pixels slowly burning themselves into my screen. I hear my phone ring....
Slice of Life: Offices
It’s an office. And it’s the thing you forget, wherever you are – it’s an office. Essentially, these places are all the same. If you’re a journalist, or work in communications, it’s the same thing, all the time: research something. Write it up in an appropriate fashion. My first ‘proper’ writing job was working in a business to business publishing house. I...