November 2009
36 posts
“My favourite comment from that last link: “Twilight is why I’m glad my...”
– Top 20 Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From Twilight | Underwire | Wired.com
Top 20 Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From... →
The Five Most Common Facebook Fails - Urlesque →
Makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. Oh the humanity!
WatchElmo schools Ricky Gervais (SMH)
“For a writer, fluency is “the ultimate good omen”: if the words are...”
– From the Guardian review of Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith which sounds quite excellent.
WatchFun Theory on Vimeo (H/T Georgina)
“Love in the Time of Cholera:WHY IT’S A BAD TITLE
I admit that “Love...”
– Writing is Easy, by Steve Martin. Read for some great advice about writer’s block.
“There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
WatchFD officially loves Dr Spaceman.
Dinosaur Comics - November 6th, 2009 →
Along the same lines, Dinosaur Comics has a reader-submitted roundup of out-of-genre cover songs. Or, as he puts it, ‘hooray for music that sounds like other music’.
All Folked Up: The Punk Rock Collection, Vol. 1... →
on the hunting down of ideas - WWdN: In Exile →
Canabalt →
‘Press X or C to start your daring escape.’
“The American writer Maurice Sendak, already one of my heroes, has climbed even...”
– If children’s stories aren’t scary, they’re failing their audience | Sam Leith | Books | The Guardian
How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal →
re: Write Fight
Well, how I get things done anyway.
The Art of Prose Fiction
I think I need to read and reread this series from On Fiction (I, II, III) on the mechanics of style, and how to annotate the interior life of a character, then talk about it with someone.
Bits like how Flaubert aspired to a ‘style that would enter your mind like a rapier thrust, and on which finally your thoughts would slide as if over a smooth surface …’, and to seek the...
On Footnotes in Fiction →
I unbiasedly love footnotes: I think they further capture a something of the exploratory inquisitiveness that fiction is all about anyway.
October 2009
18 posts
