October 2011
1 post
4 tags
“What distracts a writer? Alcohol, women, money and ambitions. Also lack of...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via kastronaut)
September 2011
2 posts
4 tags
August 2011
1 post
3 tags
July 2011
4 posts
Yes, I'm on G+ now, too.
Google+: HI I FOUND ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND PEOPLE YOU KNOW ON GOOGLE+
Me: ...I don't know any of these people. I've never heard of these people.
Google+: THESE ARE YOUR FRIENDS
Me: No, I've never seen these people before in my life.
Google+: GOOGLE+ SAYS THESE ARE YOUR FRIENDS THESE ARE ALL YOUR GOOGLE+ FRIENDS NOW DO NOT FUCK WITH GOOGLE+ GOOGLE+ TALKS TO GOOGLE STREET VIEW SO GOOGLE+ KNOWS WHERE YOU LIVE DO NOT FUCK WITH GOOGLE+ THESE ARE YOUR FRIENDS NOW YOUR ONLY FRIENDS GOOGLE+ SAYS SO ALSO YOUR NEW GOOGLE+ NAME IS "BITCHTITS"
June 2011
2 posts
“…the novella is the perfect literary length. Bartleby the Scrivener. The...”
– Harlan Ellison
Just a random piece of inspiration I’m filing away for when I need to muster up the courage to delve back into the novella project.
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
3 posts
“I dunno—I think we’re stuck in this country in a plotline...”
– J. Robert Lennon, “The quest vs. the meander”
February 2011
3 posts
“In CASINO ROYALE, James Bond is the Bond girl. Look at the way they even show...”
– ubergrid:
“The lesson is simply this: you just have to recognise that, no matter how much...”
– Warren Ellis, “On Killing Stories”
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
1 post
October 2010
4 posts
“The fiction I’m most interested in has lines of reference to the real...”
– The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 76, Raymond Carver
“The short story, if you really are intense and you have an exciting idea, writes...”
– The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 203, Ray Bradbury
“That’s why I like short stories. You’re always trying to keep the person...”
– Amy Hempel, “The Art of Fiction No. 176,” The Paris Review.
“It turns out it’s not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work. I just hate...”
– Fran Lebowitz, “A Humorist at Work.” (Interview by James Linville and George Plimpton, The Paris Review)
September 2010
1 post
“This is why at this point in time I have really very little patience for people...”
– John Scalzi, “Writing: Find the Time or Don’t”
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
4 posts
“If you do creative work, there’s a sense that inspiration is this fairy...”
– Ira Glass, “On Air and On Error”
“I’m a fascist about my work habits and I expect you to be, too. Never have a...”
– John Waters, 10 Best Pieces of Advice for Functional Freaks
March 2010
1 post
“And I want other writers, especially ones just starting out, to realize that...”
– Alan Deniro
January 2010
1 post
Watch
“Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth. Jane Austen’s perceptions don’t date because they are correct, and they will remain that way until human beings improve themselves intrinsically, and this will not happen.”
-Fran Lebowitz, on Jane Austen
December 2009
1 post
November 2009
2 posts
“The writing community is full of lame-o people who want to be published in...”
– Dan Chaon on what writers can learn from young rock stars
A lot of things have happened Since the last...
October 2009
5 posts
September 2009
4 posts
Stuff You Can't Make Up
DonP: #foundwhilewalking A different cat sleeping on the abandoned bed/box spring thrown behind some bushes.
calistataylor: Thought I found a stray. Collar had hidden message. "I know how to get home. I am not lost." It was a siamese walking around town. bzr
DonP: I'm so stealing that for a future story, fyi ;).
calistataylor: Even funnier since we dragged the cat a block to the petstore not realizing the message was in the little brass bell. Not a happy cat.
calistataylor: We were hoping they'd either recognize the cat as being local or have a lost sign. I'm surprised I came through it w/o a scratch.
DonP: Wow. Throw in the looming specter of divorce, alcoholism, or disease, and you've got the plot of an Amy Hempel story! lol
“There’s a general rule we have on [LEVERAGE], in that the villain should...”
– John Rogers
August 2009
11 posts
“One of the great delights of reading science fiction and fantasy stories is the...”
– Eileen Gunn, “Where Everything Is a Bit Different.” Introduction to the story collection Filter House by Nisi Shawl.