It got cold. #writing
Neil Gaiman is a ninja.
EDIT: And he uses a Unicomp keyboard!
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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Good Reads: A Study In Emerald →
A PDF file of a short story that won the Hugo Award. If you know anything about Sherlock Holmes or H. P. Lovecraft, you may enjoy this. If you don’t, it’ll probably be incomprehensible twaddle.
Neil Gaiman has posted a fantastic short story to his website. The plot will be familiar to Sherlock Holmes fans, and the milieu familiar to fans of H.P. Lovecraft. You don’t want to miss it.
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"Stories are not merely structured dreams, but items from the land of imagination and desire, and no matter the horror, nihilism, or cynicism of the events and characters within them, those stories originate from the same place as hope. Could it be that the act of telling a story itself is an expression of hope, regardless of what the story contains? Could it be that the act of imagining is, no matter its darkness, no matter its despair, an act that springs from idealism, even joy? The assumption of the storyteller is that someone will hear the story, that someone will receive the tale. The assumption of imagination is that things can be otherwise."
Matthew Cheney is reading through the Sandman books, and here he meditates on Sandman #4, “A Hope in Hell.” I can’t wait until he makes it to Season of Mists and Brief Lives.
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"Honestly, I think the barriers are imaginary, the walls have already been breached and the key to literature in the early 21st century is one of confluence. There’s not much high and low culture any more: there’s just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it’s good art or bad art. But then, I come from comics, and miss the days when it was a gutter art-form in which nobody was expected to make art; and think that SF was much more vibrant and relevant before they taught it in universities."
Neil Gaiman in The New Yorker’s Ask the Author. As Robin Sloan says, the most interesting part is the “confluence” of art in the 21st century: the breaking down of barriers between high and low.
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Neil Gaiman’s bookshelves are full of all kinds of amazing things. Maybe one day I’ll have a library like that myself.
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