May 2012
Ten Ways Poetry Can Improve Your Prose
lettersandlight:
A few years ago, while plodding through a revision of my novel (revisions require the writer’s equivalent of heavy-duty hiking boots), I got bored by my writing. It was too literal, too realistic, too earnest, and too flat.
Most writers are all too familiar with this feeling after a red-eyed reading of a draft. I needed a way to literally jar my narrative sensibility. I...
April 2012
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise,...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden (via how-novelistic)
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise,...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden (via how-novelistic)
“I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t...”
– Ray Bradbury (via fivetwofivetwo)
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via bersabea)
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A Guide To Reading Discworld (Or, A Handy Map For...
icoulduseinsouciantmaybe:
ayries:
gyzym:
Right, so, here is the Wikipedia entry on the Discworld books. It is mildly terrifying; there are 39 of these novels, which is kind of a daunting prospect. Luckily, these books fall into a number of different…mini-series, if you will, and luckier still most of them can be read alone. The way I figure it, there are a couple of different paths that you...
