Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light. This is kind of flying all over the internet right now, but I couldn’t resist sharing.
Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls. The jaw-dropping light painting above, made with an array of colored airplanes is currently on view at the Fly to Baku exhibition at De Pury Gallery in London through January 29th. (via art wednesday, fasels suppe) 6 Ways You're Botching Your Dialogue. [Image's facepalm shot courtesy of Striatic.]
You want to write better dialogue. You've learned a few tricks of the trade. Great work so far, but are you unwittingly sabotaging your work, leaving only stilted, one-dimensional dialogue for your readers? Here are six painfully common ways writers botch their dialogue. 1. As writers develop, they learn to write dialogue that shows off each character's personality. A good example of this is the film Easy A. 2. Beyond helping your dialogue feel more organic, side-tracks can develop your characters and build a believable world.
Yesterday morning I was chatting with my dad. It took me all of one sentence to lose my train of thought and forget items two, three, and four. Remember, dialogue isn't only being used to communicate what the characters want to communicate: it also shows each character's emotional state, creates a sense of realism, subtly hints at how characters perceive themselves and each other, and so on. 3. 4. Draft. Famous Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers. By Maria Popova By popular demand, I’ve put together a periodically updated reading list of all the famous advice on writing presented here over the years, featuring words of wisdom from such masters of the craft as Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Henry Miller, Stephen King, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Susan Orlean, Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, and more. Please enjoy. Jennifer Egan on Writing, the Trap of Approval, and the Most Important Discipline for Aspiring Writers “You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly… Accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.”
The Effortless Effort of Creativity: Jane Hirshfield on Storytelling, the Art of Concentration, and Difficulty as a Consecrating Force of Creative Attention “In the wholeheartedness of concentration, world and self begin to cohere. The Submarine. April 2005 "Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times.
Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002. Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. I know because I spent years hunting such "press hits. " Our PR firm was one of the best in the business. Symbiosis PR is not dishonest. If anyone is dishonest, it's the reporters. A good flatterer doesn't lie, but tells his victim selective truths (what a nice color your eyes are). For example, our PR firm often pitched stories about how the Web let small merchants compete with big ones. Different publications vary greatly in their reliance on PR firms. At the other extreme are publications like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The weak point of the top reporters is not laziness, but vanity. Our greatest PR coup was a two-part one.
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