5 Great Movies About Writing | BOOK RIOT “Filming a writer’s working life is admittedly a tall order. Some famous writers may have throbbingly dramatic personal lives (when are we going to get Norman Mailer stabbing his wife?), but the work itself, what makes them great, is hardly cinematic. Scribbling with a pen, tapping at [...]
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Is making books social a good thing or a bad thing? — Tech News and Analysis “Whenever social features come up, I hear friends say that they have no interest in making their books more social, and some even say they prefer reading on a Kindle or Nook because it just has text, and therefore [...]
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24% Of Kindle Readers Who Borrowed ‘The Hunger Games’ Bought ‘Catching Fire’ – GalleyCat “According to Amazon, being able to borrow eBooks leads to sales. The company reported today that in March, every time a customer borrowed an independently-published book from the Kindle Lending Library, the author earned $2.18.” Read it Later app caters to [...]
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Gems of One Syllable – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education “Some of the greatest moments in literature use words of one syllable to slow down and emphasize a poetic line, in deliberate contrast with its surroundings.” Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Writers Should Struggle Against Style | Jane Friedman Brad Beauregard: “Style is the house you accidentally build while you’re tearing walls down and throwing them in the burn pile. But most important, style is the thing writers struggle against, not toward. I say writers struggle against style, not because they always do, but because I [...]
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The Millions : Ask the Writing Teacher: The MFA Debate “Enough about how school poisons genius, about how the workshop makes robots of us all! Enough with the ignorant blanket statements! Some writers with MFAs are great, and some aren’t; the same can be said for writers without MFAs. It’s also odd, I think, to [...]
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The Millions : The ___’s Daughter ‘I was careful to collect only books that adhered to the “The ___’s Daughter” formula. So I didn’t include The Murderer’s Daughters, for example, or The Kitchen Daughter. Even leaving those variations out, though, and deleting any instances where the same book appeared more than once in the search [...]
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BOOK RIOT | Always books. Never boring. Always books? Never boring? That’s all I need to know! Are You a Difficult Writer? – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education “Difficult writers and difficult people tend to share some characteristics; you might already know whether you are one or not. If you feel that [...]
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Another Hook Short Story Contest Success “Leone Ciporin, a member of the WriterHouse Membership Committee, took third place in the 2012 Hook Short Story Contest judged by John Grisham.” Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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This American Slippery Slope « BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog “Numerous folks have pointed out how This American Life‘s retraction of Mike Daisey’s “reporting” on Apple resembles in some ways the recent rumbles and complaints toward John D’Agata’s fabrications and fact-shifting in About a Mountain and The Lifespan of a Fact.” Posted from Diigo. The rest of [...]
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How should Shakespeare really sound? – Telegraph “The eminent Shakespearean scholar John Barton has suggested that Shakespeare’s accent would have sounded to modern ears like a cross between a contemporary Irish, Yorkshire and West Country accent. Others say that the speech of Elizabethans was much quicker than it is in modern day Shakespeare productions. Well, [...]
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Giveaway: Fingerprints of You by Kristen-Paige Madonia & Chapter One! – The Story Siren “Have you heard about Kristen-Paige Madonia’s debut novel, Fingerprints of You? Well now you have! Not only can you win a copy for yourself, but you can also read CHAPTER ONE! And what about that beautiful cover!?! I’m so excited for [...]
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Jonathan Franzen versus Georges Perec | Melville House Books “Oh, Jonathan Franzen. Does your foot just really like being in your mouth?” Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Big Think, Short Fiction (#1 – Sci Fi): The Winners | Think Tank | Big Think ‘Big Think, Short Fiction #1 – Sci Fi was an Iron Chef – style competition in which writers had 72 hours (from February 17th to 20th, 2012) to submit a 1000 word short story in response to a surprise [...]
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Fleeing Complexity | New Writing | Granta Magazine The winner of a one-sentence story competition. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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