The Political Graveyard →

Awesome site for researching politics & politicians. What did we ever do before Google/the Internet?

The Fiction Generator →

Trying to come up with a great idea for your next SF/fantasy story? Check out this handy chart. One caveat, though — all the protagonists are male, so some gender-switching might be in order.

"This is the golden age for aspiring writers. We have a worldwide communications and distribution network where you can publish anything you want and — if you can manage to get anybody’s attention — get near-instant feedback. Writers just 20 years ago would have killed for that kind of feedback loop. Killed! And you’re asking me what word processor I use?"

Mark Pilgrim, interviewed on The Setup. He continues:

Learn how to respond to constructive criticism and filter out the trolls, and you can write the next great American novel in edlin.

"I write in WordPress, Microsoft Word, Notepad, I don’t much care, and chasing tools is a waste of time. Shakespeare, Hemingway and Carver didn’t need much from their pre-electric and pre-web tools to write masterpieces and neither should you."

Scott Berkun, How to write 1000 words. (via The Brooks Review)

"I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the the back of a pig’s ear. It’s that simple."

James Rosenquist

Art is simple. So is writing.

(Source: sircle, via tobia)