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The Definitive Manifesto for Handling Haters: Anne Lamott on Priorities and How We Keep Ourselves Small by People-Pleasing Lamott's words, once again, shine with warm and luminous wisdom. Alluding to the chapter on perfectionism, she writes: There's a whole chapter on perfectionism in Bird by Bird, because it is the great enemy of the writer, and of life, our sweet messy beautiful screwed up human lives. Here's how to break through the perfectionism: make a LOT of mistakes. New Scientist « Get Magazine. Scientific American « Get Magazine.
Free News, Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, Reference Articles and Classic Books - Free Online Library. Steven Wright. Free Ebooks. Google Docs Resources. How to Build a Universe: Philip K. Dick on Reality, Media Manipulation, and Human Heroism. A Review of the Universe. REALITY HUNGER, REMIXED (E - reality) Life: What are the top 10 things that we should be informed about in life. Good Prose Month: Advice From a VP Executive Managing Editor and Copy Chief, From A to X | For Inspiration. Editor's Note: In conjunction with his publication of his new book, "Good Prose," Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Tracy Kidder and editor Richard Todd will host “Good Prose Month” on Biographile.com, with the goal of bringing together the strongest voices in nonfiction to share insight into the writing and editing process with the next generation of authors.
Every day during the month of January, visit Biographile.com for a new Good Prose tip, lesson, or story from bestselling authors, award-winning journalists, acclaimed editors, and favorite storytellers. The conversation will continue on Twitter with a weekly #GoodProse chat about the craft of writing, hosted by selected authors from a range of nonfiction genres. Benjamin Dreyer is the VP Executive Managing Editor & Copy Chief of Random House Publishing Group. Below is his list of the common stumbling blocks for authors, from A to X. Modify Your Dissent. MurphyBinkings comments on Greece in WW2. Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed. Well I’m in the working world again.
I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling. Because I had been living quite a different lifestyle while I was away, this sudden transition to 9-to-5 existence has exposed something about it that I overlooked before. Since the moment I was offered the job, I’ve been markedly more careless with my money. Not stupid, just a little quick to pull out my wallet. As a small example, I’m buying expensive coffees again, even though they aren’t nearly as good as New Zealand’s exceptional flat whites, and I don’t get to savor the experience of drinking them on a sunny café patio.
When I was away these purchases were less off-handed, and I enjoyed them more. I’m not talking about big, extravagant purchases. In hindsight I think I’ve always done this when I’ve been well-employed — spending happily during the “flush times.” A Culture of Unnecessaries. When You Get Another Day | lauren zuniga.
In Which We Get You Writing Something Dark And Very Disturbed. Why and How To Write Ever since I began my full-length memoir Jesus Was A Pale Imitation of Myself I have been deluged with responses from fans asking me how I start writing. That's a great question, but I usually don't give writing advice for free, just the actual writing. Still many authors have weighed in on this subject and we can learn much from their instruction. This is the first of a four part series. You can read the rest of the series here: Part One (Joyce Carol Oates, Gene Wolfe, Philip Levine, Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, Eudora Welty, Don DeLillo, Anton Chekhov, Mavis Gallant, Stanley Elkin) Part Two (James Baldwin, Henry Miller, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Margaret Atwood, Gertrude Stein, Vladimir Nabokov) Part Three (W. Part Four (Flannery O'Connor, Charles Baxter, Joan Didion, William Butler Yeats, Lyn Hejinian, Jean Cocteau, Francine du Plessix Gray, Roberto Bolano) Joyce Carol Oates Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.
Gene Wolfe Be direct.
ERUDITE CONCEPTS. If you're not familiar with the work of Boswell D. Rabbitsmith, he's the famous erudite scientist who once said: "I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates. " His mind sees things differently than most of us do, to our amazement and amusement.
Here are some of his gems: (He also makes his living as a comedian by the name of Steve Wright....) 1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. 2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back. 3 - Half the people you know are below average. 4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. 5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. 6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. 7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. 8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. 9 - All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand. 10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. 12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
The Subconscious Shelf. - StumbleUpon. Food For Thought. The days grow and the stars cross over And my wild bed turns slowly among the stars. Muriel Rukeyser, “Darkness Music” (via awritersruminations) I taste her and realize I have been starving. Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home (via psych-quotes) (via lorenzmdumuk) Sometimes a person’s hands are the only words he knows. Bronwen Wallace, from: “Woman at the Next” (via learningfromthehands) If you listen closely to this poem, you can hear the ocean that’s living inside of you. Y.Z, It’s okay if you don’t know where you’re going (via rustyvoices)
Memoirs. Starting on Monday, thousands of university students in Hong Kong have been gathering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Tamar Park (outside the government offices) to protest the National People’s Congress (NPC) of China’s decision to restrict the right to vote for Chief Executive, the city’s highest political leader in 2017.
Article 45 of the Basic Law (Hong Kong’s own mini-constitution implemented after the handover from Britain to China in 1997) states that the Chief Executive should be chosen by universal suffrage as an eventual goal. Time and time again the Communist Party of China have dodged/shut down any democratic progress. Last month the NPC announced that they would continue using the 1200-member committee, consisting of members loyal to the Communist Party, to vote for our CE. THIS IS ILLEGAL. You can watch Occupy Central live here: x (Apple Daily livestream)I know tumblr is a US-centric place but PLEASE PLEASE SPARE A SECOND TO REBLOG THIS POST.