Happy Friday, kids. In honor of this upcoming weekend without blog posts, dayjobs or Google Reader reading, I have three ways to shake up our writing over the next two days. First of all, following Darby M. Dixon III's one-sentence post (that's his notebook photograph over there), let's all write in a notebooks instead of computer this weekend. All my important drafts begin on paper--I think faster, I write differently and I love fluttering through pages and pages of inky drafts. Thanks to Erika Dreifus ( who blogged this funny thing too ). Then, let's all jump back on the computer and excise (via find and replace wonderfulness) the seven deadly words of book reviewing from our work. For extra credit, surf the comments for a bazillion new words that drive readers crazy. Finally, let's all change how we eat lunch--and get off the computer all over again. Just read this burnout avoidance article by Susan Johnston (our b...
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When You Can’t Write About Anything Else, Write About MusicFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-27 08:23:33
I spend about an hour every day pacing around the streets of New York, playing my favorite songs over and over on my headphones. Life is not a musical, but I do absolutely everything possible to fool my writing brain into thinking that life is a musical. If I'm blocked, I listen to a song from high school or college, and I write about what I remember when I listen to that song. It's the best way to make myself write. Think you can't do it? Run, don't walk, to Largehearted ...
more The Great Big Freelancing SecretFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-27 07:23:35
So let's say, hypothetically, you followed journalist Christopher Hitchens' advice and quit your dayjob . Now what? Most freelancers don't like to talk about it, but you can write for money--for advertising, corporate copy or advertising-magazines that have informative articles mixed with sales copy like those airplane magazines. I just rediscovered an essay by critically-acclaimed science fiction writer John Scalzi (author of Agent to the Stars and lots and lots of ot...
more This Is Your Brain on CubiclesFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-26 07:23:23
What happens to a writer's brain in a cubicle? That's the question Joshua Ferris answers in his National Book Award nominated novel, Then We Came to the End . Over the course of that wonderful book, he plays with narration, dayjob fantasies and the lives of creative people working in cubicles in Chicago. If you haven't read the book, you need to do two different things. First, watch this video interview I did with National Book Award winner Sherman Ale...
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