January 2012
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October 2011
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Neil Gaiman: 8 Good Writing Practices →
ilovereadingandwriting:
Write.
Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for ...
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Romantic →
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From the oneword prompt “romantic.”
There was a bottle of wine and a candle on the table when I got home. Next to the candle was a matchbox and a note:
…
September 2011
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August 2011
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Writer's Block: Study break →
What are you studying or did you study in school? Is it related to what you want to do for your career?
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I studied Biomedical Engineering, which sounds more…
July 2011
2 posts
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of...”
– Rosemarie Urquico (via kblitz)
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Rosemarie no longer has an active blog, but she can be found on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=585211028 To see the post about how she was found, please go here. Thanks to Booksnbrew for searching!
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I’ve read _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows three times now, which surprised me when I put it on my booklist for the year. Yes indeedy, I did read it last year before the first part of the HP 7 movie came out, but search me if I remember doing so. (this is why I keep a booklist, see?)
Some people really dislike doing things over, like never seeing a movie twice. Others ask me how in...
May 2011
2 posts
Uncharted →
This song has been earworming around my head all day and now it has inspired a story snippet. Don’t know where it will go, and of course it’s fantasy. Just recording it…
Something to think about →
Everybody must know by now, that the name that has haunted America for a decade is gone and good riddance to him. I love that there were celebrations at Ground Zero and I hope that the survivors and…
April 2011
2 posts
9 times →
I’ve renewed the domain for etoiline.com 9 times as of yesterday. That’s scary close to 10, which means I’ll have been blogging intermittently for a decade next year. Wow. Guess I should update more…
Writer's Block: The name of the game →
What was your favorite game as a child, and why? With whom did you play it?
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I loved playing Red Rover when I was a…
February 2011
3 posts
Amazon fail
Got this recommendation email from Amazon today.
Customers who have purchased or rated Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours by Jim Butcher might like to know that Spatial Regulation in New York City: From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance (Routledge Advances in Geography) is now available.
So because I once bought Jim Butcher’s Spider-Man tie-in novel, I’d be interested in a textbook on...
January 2011
5 posts
What you should do →
Buy this here. First seen here.
A whisper of a dream →
Would you kill to save a life? Would you kill to prove you’re right? A glimmer of an idea teases my muse and I marvel at its source—a 30 Seconds to Mars song. I don’t know if there’s a…
“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
– D.H. Lawrence (via myconvolutedmind)
December 2010
3 posts
Writer's Block: It Was Only A Dream →
Have you ever had a dream so certain it happened? What was it?
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Usually when I wake up I know I was dreaming. But there are some…
Writer's Block: Do you want to know a secret? →
Which song by The Beatles is your favorite, and why?
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I’m torn between “Here Comes The Sun” and “Dear Prudence” because they’re both beautiful with pretty…
THE END in 2010 →
I managed to finagle a way to write THE END at the conclusion of NaNoWriMo 2010. It’s sort of kludgy and there are lots of things that don’t make a lot of sense and plenty of wrong…
November 2010
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“[F]ailure instructs the writer. Every novel, in the moments before we begin to...”
– Michael Chabon, via galley cat
October 2010
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Writer Fuel: Snickerdoodles
lettersandlight:
As much as I love a good, old-fashioned chocolate chipper, I gotta say, snickerdoodles are my favorite cookies. They are subtle, a bit plain-Jane, and I think often overlooked. But this underdog of a cookie is perfect for getting you through those marathon writing sessions. Probably because they are chock full of sugar and butter. Mmmmmmm. Delicious. They are super easy to...
September 2010
8 posts
Click here to manage your money for free with... →
I’ve used Mint.com for a couple of years now, and it’s so nice to see how my money grows. There are tools for saving, organizing your purchases, marking things as tax-deductible, loan management…and it’s free. Give it a try, and you and I could win an iPad!
How much does an Inception cost? →
inceptionmovie:
How much the job would cost and how much each member would get paid!
Because there isn’t enough to ponder about “Inception” already…
“Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to...”
– Elie Wiesel, from A Sacred Magic Can Elevate the Secular Storyteller (via wordpainting)
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things...”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind) (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover)
August 2010
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June 2010
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“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind) (via vild) (via cakesandsweets) (via keremmermutlu)
August 2009
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A new place →
It’s hard to believe that I own a house. I don’t really, not for another thirty years, but that I can claim I bought a house is a pretty strange prospect for me. I didn’t think I’d buy a house on…
July 2009
3 posts
Dragons and princesses →
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deeps something helpless that wants help from us. …
Happy Fourth! →
It’s raining out there, but I’m sure we can manage to celebrate somehow… (via cakewrecks.)
Keys! →
I guess I’m officially an adult: I closed on a house yesterday. I have my very own address. Excuse me while I squee. —ZOMG keys!— Ahem. It’s small but well proportioned and just the right size…
June 2009
4 posts
A Giant Fourth →
Overheard on the radio: A giant is taking questions like: Are you really a giant? Is your wife a giant too?. Then he gets this one: How does a giant celebrate the Fourth of July? He says, “I…
a softball haiku →
Since it is the day before a softball game and it’s raining, I present to you a softball haiku: softball—a dream that
never becomes realized
because it rains so Last night I had a dream where…
Good Fiction →
“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell,…
Good Fiction →
“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell,…
May 2009
3 posts
Unfettered →
“In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.” —Madeleine L’Engle
something learned →
More pithiness from Neil Gaiman. Gotta reread American Gods sometime. …I saved the document on the computer, and I realised I’d finished writing a book. I wondered what I’d learned, and…
Six →
Huzzah! Today is my six-year anniversary of starting work at WUMS. One more year and my kids can go to WU for free. My non-existent, not-even-a-twinkle-in-my-eye kids. One day, mom, one day you’ll…
April 2009
6 posts
The Importance of the novel →
And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places the flow of our sympathetic consciousness, and it can lead our sympathy away in recoil from…
Happy () Day →
AttS is SEVEN today! My parents celebrate their anniversary and my friend Kate and my coworker Gordon (sorry I can’t be there for drinks) can tally up another year on this day. Huzzah to all of…
I wish →
From zen_habits on Twitter, who said, Complete this sentence: I wish my life were more … Writerly. (Yeah, not a word. But I wish I acted more like an author. This is a wish I can and should…