December 2009
November 2009
“When writing memoir, many people believe that you have to write factually:...”
“(One) simple thing about writing: it is like shooting a basketball. You’ve...”
– Richard Hugo, from The Triggering Town
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For the town I never been
My hammer rings sparks. Steel slag bruises my eye. Sharp hot red-orange sluice traces gilded lines through factory dark. Outside mud-rock clogs streets, ruins gutters.
Blue asphalt cut from hillsides bites through new birch. Hard call girls call the cool night, coo frog-throated these tough hands. Bandaged canvas wrapped hard like cast iron—steel, the bite of worn wood on palm.
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nevver:
William Burroughs, Thanksgiving Prayer
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hanbanesty:
I am really enjoying seeing the progress/revisioning of the novel. Keep it up!!
NaNoWriMo: I may attempt it next year. (Or just consider a future month my November.) Best advice?
Thank you so much!
Advice: write every day. If a scene’s not working, move on. Finish a draft, then worry about revisions.
Also, take October and think about your characters.
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bibliotheque:
Mark Mothersbaugh - Ping...
caylamarie:
daydreamingnightmares:
Sweet Jane...
“Attack with your strengths rather than defend your weaknesses.”
– Chairman Gruber, offering advice that seems useful to pretty much any situation I can think of. (via merlin)
“Look, I don’t attack people on their weaknesses,” [Karl Rove] once told reporters in Texas during a campaign. “That usually doesn’t get the job done. Voters...
Tumblrs: Please credit your posts with a link to...
stevencloud:
Or I will be forced to unfollow you despite your curatorial skillz.
Seriously. It’s not that hard.
“Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via nicoleyyy) (via paperclash) (via somehowsomeway)
I think it’s so funny how many people ask, Where do your ideas come from? It’s like they don’t have ideas themselves. Maybe they don’t. I’d speculate, though, the difference between people who make and...
“There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we...”
– Ralph Emerson Waldo (via youroldarchenemycatwoman)
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gunstreetgirl:
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meaghano:
nickdouglas:
“Is there a bifurcation of self?- is there, can there be, a self that exists outside of the writing? Can you really put yourself, your truth, into something and then say it isn’t you? And why do we ask that of them?”
— Meaghan O’Connell
Yes. Because the present me is horribly different from the past me (which is why I’m glad I torched my old blogs and retain the barest...
“All This Useless Beauty” by Elvis...
“Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul....”
– Henry Rollins (via helloclarice)
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“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with...”
– Tom Waits on the state of the world
(via delayprocrastinate & yvynyl)
(via hanbanesty)
Thank you!
Thanks to everyone who chimed in on the synopsis. I swapped out “entropy” for “languish” and made some other slight modifications.
This is what it means to kill your darlings. I was so in love with “entropy” I couldn’t see that it didn’t really work.
btw: you all rock, seriously.
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Would you read this book?
a) A failed astronomy professor tries to flee a ruined life.
This one?
b) Boone Kokerson is a failed astronomy professor who’s let his life entropy to ruin: strained marriage, distant son, and a department chair hinting for his resignation. When everything finally falls apart, Boone tries to start fresh at a Key West restaurant left him by an estranged uncle. But his life continues its...
Watch“Ladyfingers” by Luscious Jackson
You know what would have been awesome? If I’d been able to embed the video from YouTube instead of this Grooveshark widget. The video’s really good!
In addition, I might also have embedded “Naked Eye,” “Under Your Skin,” and “Here.” Probably not “Citysong,” though.
Oh, EMI. Such an Internet...
“We curl up on the couch together, under a blanket, whisper I love you, I missed...”
– lorrie moore, “to fill” (via bienvenue)
this is one of my favorite LMisms.
(via meaghano)
“Bizarre Love Triangle” by New Order
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