Brilliant.
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› Writers need to be more like high-priced escorts….
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› Youth! by Joyce Carol Oates | The New York Review of Books
Unthinking is the ability to apply years of learning at the crucial moment by removing your thinking self from the equation. Its power is not confined to sport: actors and musicians know about it too, and are apt to say that their best work happens in a kind of trance. Thinking too much can kill not just physical performance but mental inspiration. Bob Dylan, wistfully recalling his youthful ability to write songs without even trying, described the making of “Like a Rolling Stone” as a “piece of vomit, 20 pages long”. It hasn’t stopped the song being voted the best of all time.
http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/ian-leslie/non-cogito-ergo-sum
Letterpress broadside by Roger Snell to mark the passing of Philip Whalen.
Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possible.
- Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
Check out Philosophy Bro : “Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”: A Summary” http://www.philosophybro.com/2010/12/nietzsches-thus-spoke-zarathustra.html
Fucking brilliant.
IG: Writing is the hardest part of the job. Writing is just very difficult. I’m an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best. But writing, uh, slogging through the material and picking out the quotes and imposing structure-the points you are going to include in the story and the points you are going to have to toss away-
Ira Glass
Talking Type — About Type Navigator: The Independent Foundries Handbook (by Gestalten)
DO GREAT THINGS
“We have a greater capacity to change the world today than the kings and presidents of just 50 years ago…Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don’t have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you — unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike…In companies large and small, great minds are devoting their lives to endeavors that, even if wildly successful, fail to do great things…Don’t lose the fire you started with. If you’re going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself and the world around you to work on something that matters to you deeply. Something that’s beating out of your chest and compels you to throw yourself at it completely. No one knows whether you and your teammates will realize your audacious visions, but in order to do great things, we must attempt great things.” Do Great Things | TechCrunch via Shelley Armstrong
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