Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized! Teenreads. Reading Teen. YA Booklover Blog. Into that world inverted... The Best Damn Creative Writing Blog. We help great writers get discovered and published. The start of a new year typically means half your energy is going towards getting over your post-holiday depression and the other half is going towards making the half-baked effort of accomplishing your resolutions.
We have a solution for both! In 2014, we challenge you to put down the clichè goal sheet. No weight loss or being more organized or socializing more with clowns you hardly want to see in the first place. (Am I right, people?) This year, instead of wallowing in your own world, dive into another. This new year, change your game. So, what’s your first book going to be? Feminine Names for Strong Women’s Novels. I read an article, to which I will not bother to link, which criticized HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins on the grounds that the title of the work was not named after the main character, as it would have been (or so the writer implied) had the work starred a manly masculine man dripping with machismo.
Such works (or so the writer implied) are always and inevitably named after the hero, for example, the ODYSSEY is named after Odysseus, or OEDIPUS REX is named after a dog named Rex. The reason why I will not bother linking to the essay is (1) it’s stupid and (2) I’m rude and (3) it’s just wrong. That it is stupid we will take for granted, or you can look through the internet at random to find someone somewhere talking about HUNGER GAMES.
If you find a stupid essay, that is the one I no doubt meant. If you find a good essay that I am criticizing unfairly, that is not the one. This is fun! Myintelligentlife.wordpress.com. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Asymco. Daniel W. Drezner. 50 Best iPhone Apps 2012. 99U - It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. Bonus Goliath Chapter and Art! A bonus chapter, you say?
What? Why? Here’s how this came about. While reading a multitude of fan reviews of Goliath, the last book in the Leviathan trilogy, I noted a common theme. Many of you felt as though there was just one more illustration you wanted to see. After all, we’ve all spent a quarter-million words and 160 illustrations with the crew of the Leviathan. Yes, The Manual of Aeronautics comes out next year (August 21), full of deck plans, cutaways, beasties, uniforms, etc. Of course, what image Keith should draw was a matter of debate. So I decided to hold a vote, here on this post called “One Last Piece of Art”, and there was much enthusiasm. I have read your comments and run them through a complex algorithm, and Keith came up with a wonderful piece of bonus art. So I decided to write a piece of fan fiction to go with it.
I am sorry to say, though, that this chapter and Keith’s piece are bumping Fan Art Friday till next week. Enjoy. “It was a matter of principle.” “Indeed.” The Billfold. The Fear of Opinions. Top Ten Tuesday: Most Unique Books I’ve Read #ttt Here are some books that left an impression on me, some for positive reasons and some not. 1.
Don’t Even Think About it by Sarah Mlynowski – I’ve never read a book with a hive of narrators before. It was an odd effect. 2. And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard – This was my first book in 2nd person. I didn’t love it. 3. View On WordPress Filed under top ten tuesday Great by Sara Benincasa @epicreads @SaraJBenincasa. Brain Pickings. PSYCHOFACTZ. Sanity turns to Vanity. This Is My Secret. The Monkey Cage. Her Bad Mother — Bad Is The New Good. Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more.