January 2012
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This blog will be closing its doors within the next few days. While I have attempted to leave the attention addiction before, this time I lost my primary reason to maintain the blog, one that really had nothing to do with writing.
However, along those lines, I really have come to learn (time and time again, despite hypocrisy) that writing here and putting your writing here is not exactly...
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“There was a moment of sorrow, disappointment, and deep love for his son, whom he...”
– Paul Harding, Tinkers
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Good Morning, Colin [or Breakfast of Failures]:... →
solipsism2:
Dr. Campbell didn’t even bother looking up from his clipboard.
“It’s a clear cut case,” he said, still staring down neglectfully at spreadsheets, “SAD. It’s not exactly uncommon.”
“SAD?” Sadie asked, instantly worried by the medical abbreviation.
“Seasonal Affective Disorder. It’s pretty common…
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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has...”
– Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps...”
– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
December 2011
208 posts
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Summer (Part 1)
Dr. Campbell didn’t even bother looking up from his clipboard.
“It’s a clear cut case,” he said, still staring down neglectfully at spreadsheets, “SAD. It’s not exactly uncommon.”
“SAD?” Sadie asked, instantly worried by the medical abbreviation.
“Seasonal Affective Disorder. It’s pretty common to see it in minor cases of female depression.” He said flatly, and cleared his throat, obviously not...
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Summer (Part 1)
Dr. Campbell didn’t even bother looking up from his clipboard.
“It’s a clear cut case,” he said, still staring down neglectfully at spreadsheets, “SAD. It’s not exactly uncommon.”
“SAD?” Sadie asked, instantly worried by the medical abbreviation.
“Seasonal Affective Disorder. It’s pretty common to see it in minor cases of female depression.” He said flatly, and cleared his throat, obviously not...
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“The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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Summer (Part 1)
Dr. Campbell didn’t even bother looking up from his clipboard.
“It’s a clear cut case,” he said, still staring down neglectfully at spreadsheets, “SAD. It’s not exactly uncommon.”
“SAD?” Sadie asked, instantly worried by the medical abbreviation.
“Seasonal Affective Disorder. It’s pretty common to see it in minor cases of female...
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“Anyway — because we are readers, we don’t have to wait for some...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
thaisepf asked: Your post "Lessons for Young Writers" has some really important tips for teen writers, though I believe you've missed one of the most important tips: Read good literature. Or commercial, in case you want to be a commercial writer, these are choices. And practice your writing, find your voice. Also, I know good authors that depict children pretty well, Peter Carey is one of them. Not...
hopehandwritten asked: As an angst amateur teen writer, I enjoyed that piece for young writers. I personally prefer poetry to all writing, but the future is uncertain. I think twilight to be in no way "serious literature." I'm appalled that my generation has been stereotyped with this sparkly vampire obsession. I read the books. They were thrust upon me to my dismay as a birthday gift from my best friend....
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Lessons for Young Writers, By Young Writers #1
Advice Classification: Short Story
Subject: Character
To criticize the world’s greatest writing cliche: Never write what you know. This is especially valid for the young writer, and doubly so when it comes to character choice.
Making your characters your own age is good for sophomoric situations, but it is really a bad thing to have any one fictional person too close to being you,...
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shit-and-sunshine asked: Referencing your piece on your (would-be) daughter-what are the books you would lock up in the cabinet? The ones you said would make you hate yourself, and think, and hate yourself.
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Three in the Hand
I live in a vacuum. Here, I am in the absence of any medium. Here, you find that everything is terse, with so little space between thought and conclusion. The mind, is like an echo chamber, and thoughts bounce off the walls like helium balloons. You can hear yourself. You develop a voice that speaks in growing tones, real tones, ones that are truly audible.
Nobody just enters into a vacuum...
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Sillage
He stood in the wake of past, a place that is more real than metaphorical. I slid into the waters nearby, the aquatic saffron brushing around the back of my knees and soaking my cargo pants. The water had a warm, diaphanous glow, and it flowed viscously, smothered in the nonchalance of all that time. I was, by my estimate, somewhere between twenty-five and thirty in this time, in the life we sat...
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“The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you...”
– Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
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“The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that...”
– Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
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“I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary,...”
– Elie Wiesel
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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must...”
– Elie Wiesel
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“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
– Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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“I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads,...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have...”
– Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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Sillage
He stood in the wake of past, a place that is more real than metaphorical. I slid into the waters nearby, the aquatic saffron brushing around the back of my knees and soaking my cargo pants. The water had a warm, diaphanous glow, and it flowed viscously, smothered in the nonchalance of all that time. I was, by my estimate, somewhere between twenty-five and thirty in this time, in the life we sat...
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Reading, learning words-it expands your mind. Literally, I mean. Your thoughts grow louder, more pertinent and immediate in their need to become real. They morph and twist, and the mind becomes an echo chamber of sorts. Thoughts amplify, coming back from a thousand angles, a thousand perspectives. Some diffident, some strong. We are products of life in the end, copper in the mold of those we have...
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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
– George Orwell, 1984
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“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.”
– George Orwell
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who...”
– Lemony Snicket
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“If you can approach the world’s complexities, both its glories and its...”
– Daniel C. Dennett
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“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back....”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp,...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can...”
– Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
– George Orwell, 1984
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“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
– Arthur Miller
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“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp,...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Choose an author as you choose a friend.”
– Christopher Wren (via solipsism2)
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“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born...”
– Pearl S. Buck
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“If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to...”
– Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are...”
– Yann Martel, Life of Pi