April 2012
29 posts
Xam i am: Spring sales on all things Salgood →
salgood.tumblr.com
Hey, so pardon the shilling but a couple of good deals on my newly launched Print on demand book and art print offerings are to be had.
On all Society6 prints and cards, everything they make except the canvases and framed prints, you can get free shipping till Sunday. So the sticker price is…
“As you know, the question we writers are asked most often, the favourite question, is; why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write! I write because I can’t do normal work like other people. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at all of you, angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. (…) I write because I love the smell of paper, pen, and ink. I write because I believe in literature, in the art of the novel, more than I believe in anything else. I write because it is a habit, a passion. I write because I am afraid of being forgotten. I write because I like the glory and interest that writing brings. I write to be alone. Perhaps I write because I hope to understand why I am so very, very angry at all of you, so very, very angry at everyone. I write because I like to be read. I write because once I have begun a novel, an essay, a page, I want to finish it. I write because everyone expects me to write. I write because I have a childish belief in the immortality of libraries, and in the way my books sit on the shelf. I write because it is exciting to turn all of life’s beauties and riches into words. I write not to tell a story, but to compose a story. I write because I wish to escape from the foreboding that there is a place I must go but – just as in a dream – I can’t quite get there. I write because I have never managed to be happy. I write to be happy.”
—Orhan Pamuk, “My Father’s Suitcase” (via ruys)
"Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn't exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one." →
theatlantic.com
Why you should abandon all hope of finishing your novel.
Six Writing Tips From John Steinbeck (article)
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet — it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you. →
reddit.com
-Joss Whedon’s opinion on fan fic. Read more questions and answers over at reddit.
I don’t go there often enough luckily io9 keeps me updated :) the above linky quote was highlighted there -amongst other snazzy tidbits- first.
