March 2012
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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...
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February 2012
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“Thornton Wilder was a fellow at my college at Yale. Here was a world-celebrated...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Biography No. 2, David McCullough
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“Last year, I went into a second interview for an editor job I thought I had on...”
– The Barista’s Curse (via frontofbook)
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It's beautiful outside today in Charleston, y'all.
intracoastal-wanderings:
Just sayin’.
And I saw a dolphin!
January 2012
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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.
December 2011
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“I believe God lives in everything. Not just churches and cathedrals. Not just in...”
– Silas House (via twobluebirds)
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“Movies are living thing. They evolve. They’re never finished, just abandoned.”
– David Fincher, talking about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Not just movies — novels, too. (via)
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“Like all who possess libraries, Aurelian felt a nagging sense of guilt at not...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, “The Theologians”
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November 2011
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“I think there are three steps to writing a script. First, you have to have a...”
– Paul Schrader
Via Austin Kleon, who adds:
I love that substitution for theme: something that’s bothering you
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“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play...”
– Annie Dillard (via thebronzemedal)
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Patrick Lane, Flabbergasted →
danchaon:
He was still living in the old house where he grew up, which he realized was probably a big part of the problem. His parents had been dead for two years, and his older sister Jodee was now living in Chicago with her boyfriend, Jake the Medical Resident.
After their parents’ funeral, Brandon and Jodee had both agreed that the best thing to do was to sell the house...
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October 2011
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“Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
– Annie Proulx (via theparisreview)
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Celebrating St. Crispin’s Day →
Guy Patrick Cunningham celebrates St. Crispin’s Day (Oct. 25), Shakespeare’s Henry V, and — by extension — Shakespeare himself:
In a sense, the best counterpoint to Henry is Shakespeare himself, who has managed to take a shallow, dishonest man and turn him into the subject of a profound, candid work of art.
The whole play (Gutenberg, Wikisource, Amazon) is definitely...
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College is not a financial investment →
Education debt restricts the future decisions of college graduates. It rules out any “different metric” and any other idea or ideal of “success.” It rules out any career path that doesn’t promise an income high enough and stable enough to cover the payments on those loans.
If you graduate with $50,000 or $100,000 in debt, you cannot “imaginatively launch new organizations, programs, and...
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