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Get ready folks, there’s two hours of Mad Men coming on tonight! Get those old fashioneds ready!
After three years and 400 pages, I have finally finished writing the first draft of a novel. Now I'm collecting all kinds of advice about writing and editing. Do you have some? I also like books, science fiction, and many other things.
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What I’m doing
I haven’t done much on this site in a while. In addition to moving to a new city (more on that someday) I’ve been trying to revise the manuscript to the novel I finished last summer. “Trying” is a pretty good description because since June or so I’ve only actually made it through two chapters of the text. BUT! I’ve added about a dozen new scenes, and rearranged the text, and generally thought out everything having to do with this story until I can hardly stand it anymore. I’d like to speed up the process, because it’s a little silly to say I’m working on a novel when I’m not, you know, working on a novel.
So there’s probably not going to be a whole ton of updates here until I get through some of the stuff on my revision to-do list. With any luck I will start clicking through those things a lot more quickly. Either way, I’m going to be mostly silent on here, though I’ll probably be updating Twitter every once in a while. Here’s wishing myself luck, and godspeed to finishing off the next draft. Thanks Tumblr. You’re the best.
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McSweeney’s mathematical translations of popular refrains.
(via It’s Okay to be Smart)
Filed under: formulas, fake it til you make it
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Angel Oak Johns Island (Taken with instagram)
See how amazing that looks in the picture? In person it’s even better :)
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"Thornton Wilder was a fellow at my college at Yale. Here was a world-celebrated writer for us to talk to, to have lunch with—imagine!—and he was easy to talk to, delightful. Later, while working in New York, I read the interview with him in The Paris Review. I can’t tell you what a difference it made for me. When asked why he wrote books and plays, he said, “I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading or to see a new play that would engross me.” If it didn’t exist, he wrote it so he could read it or see it."
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"Last year, I went into a second interview for an editor job I thought I had on lock. But when I met the publisher, he stopped midsentence to ask, “Hey, didn’t you used to work in the coffee place near the Lorimer stop? You did the best cappuccino!” Then he wondered why I had left the barista job off my résumé. “It’s nothing to be ashamed of,” he beamed. But he didn’t give me the job."
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“Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very;” your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
—Mark TwainWorld’s best writing advice.
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Moving to Charleston, S.C.
In two weeks, we’re going to load all our stuff up in a big yellow truck and drive nine hours to the coast. I am so excited for this next phase of our lives.
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
