July 2010
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For God's sake, follow your dreams →
Now, I understand, diving in full time isn’t always an option for everybody, but that shouldn’t deter us from at least starting to move in the right direction. Take baby steps I say, if you can’t afford drastic measures, but for God’s sake don’t kill your dreams.
I couldn’t agree more. This is why I write, edit and get involved in as many projects as...
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Pupils from Grasmere school, Cumbria perform A... →
- All 46 children at Grasmere school, Cumbria, take part in an outdoor production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
If this doesn’t warm your cockles and make you wish all Shakespeare productions included songs by the Beach Boys, you simply don’t have a heart.
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- I really wasn’t that concerned about morality in my fiction
Really Brett Easton Ellis? Really?
Also, never trust anyone who calls themselves a satirist.
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“It’s absolutely essential that a writer know himself, for until he knows his...”
– Harper Lee (via awritersruminations) (via leavemethismess)
Go on Harper Lee my son. Great quote. I get sick of all this muse nonsense. It’s about thinking clearly and writing even more so.
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WatchDo you need university qualifications to be a good writer? | Write for Your Life
It feels slightly icky to be posting a video of myself here, but it’s relevant so what the flaming hectors?
By the way, the answer is no. But they’re handy.
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Introducing the all-new Write for Your Life! →
Last week I launched a complete redesign of Write for Your Life, my proper blog for writers. It’s fairly beautiful, in an illustrated monster kind of a way.
Here I am telling the world.
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WatchThe History of Nikola Tesla - a Short Story (by Jeremiah Warren)
I don’t know much about Nikola Tesla, but I know I like well put together stories told simply and with style.
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“It doesn’t matter if you’re a writer or a baker. When the mood strikes you and...”
– Randy Murray (via patrickrhone)
Also applies to candlestick makers.
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“I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative...”
– — Sarah Harrison (via teachingliteracy) (via leavemethismess)
Well yeah, fine, I know you’re right. But reading all the time right now is nowhere near as important as having read previously, understanding the canon and, significantly, where your writing sits in it. The canon that is.
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“Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to...”
– Barbara Kingsolver (via wordpainting)
And of course there’s the old chestnut that says that when writing a short story, you should always cut the first and last paragraphs once you’ve finished. I don’t really buy into it, but then I have a terrible habit of not being able to leave...