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Write a series of museum labels for everyday objects. Use art jargon to describe public places. Water fountains, bicycles, fire hydrants, etc. Take photographs of your new museum. Submit the writing and photographs here.
(via literaryartifacts)
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Longreads: Longreads Member Pick: House Heart, by Amelia Gray
This week’s Member Pick is “House Heart,” a short story by Amelia Gray, the author of the novel Threats and short story collections Museum of the Weird and AM/PM. “House Heart” was published in the December 2012 issue of Tin House—here’s more from Tin House assistant…
(via whysoright)
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The Mad Magpie: "Work" by Raymond Carver
For John Gardner, D. September 14, 1982
Love of work. The blood singing
in that. The fine high rise
of it into the work. A man says,
I’m working. Or, I worked today.
Or, I’m trying to make it work.
Him working seven days a week.
And being awakened in the morning
by his young wife, his…(Source: exrpan)
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Publishing has gone democratic, and masses of writers gamble on themselves, hoping they’ll hit a readership vein and mine financial profits, not to mention fame and glory. Some go it alone, others circle the wagons and form support groups, read each other’s blogs, offer tips. Some achieve at least one of the things they hoped for. Others don’t.
Like them, I heard the siren call. ‘Dyanne Asimow,’ it said. ‘Time to take the power into your own hands.’
Confessions of the self-published, via the Los Angeles Review of Books. (via millionsmillions) -
Here’s what Eugenides should have added by way of closing: the so-called writer has to wear all sorts of hats: writer, reader, editor, negotiator, businessman, self-promoter, etc. And only the first of these hats should never be worn outside one’s private necropolis. The next two have the odd responsibility of communing — patiently, cautiously, and courageously — with the dead self. The rest must find of way of coming to terms with life among the living.
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Read the full article “‘On the Road’ actors used audio recordings from Ransom Center’s collections to prepare for their roles” on the Ransom Center’s blog, Cultural Compass.
The Ransom Center holds a significant collection of material from writers in the Beat Generation.
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It’ll be a little while before I have a chance to transcribe my conversation about memoir writing with Whip Smart author Melissa Febos - we talked onstage the other night, at a fundraiser for The Rumpus/Stephen Elliott’s film, Happy Baby. (Contribute here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/706884381/happy-baby-the-movie)
In any case, I got so much out of talking with her. At the moment, I’m thinking about what she said re: first unabashedly writing it ALL, then eliminating unnecessarily hurtful material later on, while wearing “mom goggles” or “dad goggles” or “ex-boyfriend goggles” etc. The point being, you can’t know what’s unnecessary or potentially too hurtful until you’re done writing your first draft. It’s similar to what Nick Flynn told me at the last NY Rumpus event. Great memoirists think alike, I suppose. Thanks, Melissa.
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Our Friday night… writing & wine.
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Thor is helping me write a comic. I figure he knows more about comics than I do, and it’s always good to ask an expert for advice.
-TLOTH
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Grace Bello: Brain Pickings: Neil Gaiman's 8 Rules of Writing
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Write. - Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
- Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
- Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that…
(Source: brainpickings.org)
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