Junot Diaz on Writing
16 Feb 2012 5:19am GMT “Take your time, follow your freak and prefer from an audience the complexity of conversation over the simplicities of approval” — Junot Diaz
39 Best Blogs for Writers
15 Feb 2012 6:30pm GMT From Writer’s Market editor Robert Lee Brewer (if you don’t follow @robertleebrewer on Twitter, you should): “There are so many blogs out there by and for writers. The list below identifies blogs that I personally think are the best blogs for writers to read. If you don’t agree with any of the selections (or think [...]
Reincarnation
14 Feb 2012 2:46pm GMT “Headology–the tough-love art of helping people make themselves even more awesome than they already are,” the girl read from the heavy tome defenestrated from God’s ivory tower. “How would you like to be even more awesome than you already are, Mr. John?” She circled the man at the stake. “Do you believe in reincarnatin?” asked [...]
Happiness
14 Feb 2012 2:27pm GMT He was happy, it seemed, finally. High atop the eastern tor, standing at the center of a sunny patch of blue grass, feathers unfurled, horns erect, diamonds gleaming in the morning rays. Below, the fire was spent. Set under the stars, it raged against the black night. Now, only the smoldering remnants of a once [...]