October 2009
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My son danced that crazy-leg, foot-stomp baby dance for the first time this morning. The song that moved him? “Fight the Power” by Public Enemy.
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Greg Turner fact:
1. Greg Turner’s favorite constellation is Orion
Dear EMI
Because you won’t allow embedding from YouTube, I can’t share “She’s a Beauty” by The Tubes with my online friends. Perhaps they wouldn’t enjoy the song or the video, but now we’ll never know for certain. Kindly choke on dick.
Forever yours, Greg
i dont understand why you would 'like' my reblog...
(via sl1m)
I totally did this!
1. I’m an insensitive ass. I own that; it’s mine.
2. For whatever reason, the photo wouldn’t link through to the original from your post, so I went to lightboner, found the source and then got lazy, reblogged that one. But let it be known I saw the well-lit skateboarders on sl1m’s tumblr first.
All scenes must further character or plot →
“If I show you a bowl of dog shit and tell you it’s vanilla ice cream, and...”
– On why not all writers’ workshops are beneficial, from a bar conversation with Kevin Canty
Process plan
booneslanding:
I didn’t finish my first novel before I started revisions. I finished about a third of it, went back and edited heavily and then tried to complete the rest of it. In dong so I made two crucial mistakes. I revised too early, and, because I didn’t have that much to revise, I concentrated too hard on minutiae.
I didn’t want to fall into the same trap this time, so made some...
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“Spooky Action” by Dear and Glorious...
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“410” by Precious, a band from Orlando...
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Anthony Bourdain on Noggin, Nick Jr. →
On the other hand, I resent that the painfully animated WONDER PETS has an unholy grip on my daughter’s affections. And I count the days until she tires of these cloyingly cute little cut outs, seemingly reassembled and animated from scraps of magazine photographs. Is it possible to hate an animated character? Personally hate them? Because my loathing for guinea-pig Linnie and turtle Tuck...
Alternatively.
merlin:
You guys want an honest letter for a rejected submission?
You bet:
Hi,
We didn’t ask for this, and it’s not good. We don’t want to publish it. Stop sending things. Seriously.
Us.
Or, of course, you could do what Exquisite Corpse used to do: post a list of the names of every submitter who should a) try again later or b) never ever send anything again. Talk about honest.
No, it’s...
Remember when I asked about a tumblr dedicated to...
Well, it’s here: booneslanding.tumblr.com
I’ll probably update irregularly, but if you have any questions for me about the craft or process of writing, please ask and I’ll answer them as best I can.
youroldarchenemycatwoman:
snuh:
The Clash:...
“Nowadays when almost everyone is a genius, at least for a while, the temptation...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to Ernest Hemingway on a first draft of The Sun Also Rises
“also,
there’s an arts show/ music festival at spin cycle this weekend.
i will...”
– (via swisskorea)
queue it up
“100,000 Fireflies” by Magnetic Fields
“Kerosene” by Big Black
I started my morning commute with these songs in this order, and I was pleasantly surprised how well they transitioned one to the next.
So I'm revising this novel
And several people have emailed with interest in the process. I thought I might dedicate a new tumblr to documenting the next few months of revisions, proposals, solicitations, rejections (there will be some, I’m sure), failures and triumphs.
Would anyone else find value in something like that?
“How did hormone replacement therapy become so popular for American women going...”
– Big Pharma Writes Script For Menopause Research (via tryingtofollow)
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Various industries do this sort of thing all the time, especially in trade journals, where PR firms write many of the articles attributed to CEOs and other industry leaders. The good or...
