May 2007
8 posts
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Novel Writing →
“Whether you choose 60 days, 30 days or 6 months as your goal, all that matters is that you commit to it and implement a schedule that will get you there. Choose a realistic time frame that you can stick to. A little bit every day is better than trying to do too much and then giving up.”
BuzzMachine: Amazing Facebook →
“It’s said that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for his service to become the social operating system of the web, the Google of people.”
Before the Rampage: What Can Be Done? →
“No matter how hard Michael tried to change the way his peers saw him, nothing worked until the day he started fantasizing out loud about taking over the school and shooting people. That did work. He began to get attention. And once he had announced his intention, he risked social failure if he declined to go through with it. School shooters are problem solvers. They are trying to turn the...
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Nine to five →
Fiction, and its relationship to the workaday world (and all the bland office spaces and corporatespeak thereby entailed).
Death by Veganism →
NYT op-ed about the baby starved to death by his vegan parents: written by a former vegan who stopped being a vegan when she became pregnant, because she realized it was unhealthy. Eek.
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The Mumpsimus: Details of Representation →
“Bad writing is imprecise writing, and for all the skill Ludwigsen demonstrates with pacing, with voice, with narrative, he fails to demonstrate the most important skill that his story needs: precision. Specificity. Detail.”
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The Greatest Mystery: Making a Best Seller →
NYT: Publishing books is like playing the slots.
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8020 Publishing Blog: The Future of Magazines Has... →
Interesting description of a way magazines can survive in the strange new era of the internet. Basically, it’s the model I’ve been thinking of: content lives online first, and the best eventually migrates to a high-quality printed version that people pay for. (8020 Publishing produces JPG, which takes user-submitted amateur photography from its website and turns them into beautiful...