Heh heh heh.
(via buzzfeed)
My year so far
It can only get better, no?
(via bookriot)
A moment of reflection on Memorial Day.
“Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very;” your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
—Mark Twain
(via thetinhouse)
Book trailer for, “The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to their Younger Selves.” My tender heart can barely handle the awesome. This passage in particular resonates:
Michael Cunningham
“As you’re nearing thirty, you’ll say, screw it, maybe I’ll never be recognized, but I still want to write. It’s the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do. So I’m going to start writing about the people who matter most to me, the people I know best. I’m going to stop trying to court the New Yorker with tales of adultery and divorce in Connecticut. I’m going to write about gay people. I can live with the idea that no one will ever publish me. When I’m the oldest living bartender, I’ll try to keep those errant hairs plucked.
And that’s when your writing career will take off. Try to believe me.”
Joss Whedon smackdown. Yes, please!
Interviewer: So why do you write these strong female characters?
Joss Whedon: ...Why are you even asking me this?! This is like interview number 50 in a row. How is it possible that this is even a question? Honestly, seriously, why are you -- why did you write that down? Why do you -- Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe that what I am doing should not be remarked upon, let alone honored, and there are other people doing it. But, seriously, this question is ridiculous and you just gotta stop.
This also applies to “The Grapes of Wrath.” Shrugs.
Will this be the summer you finally read WAR AND PEACE?
My weekend at a literary conference
What: Muse and the Marketplace Literary Conference
When: last weekend
The first day of the conference: registration
During morning sessions
Right before Shop Talk lunch with two agents and two authors
During Shop Talk lunch
After I got a hug from Elinor Lipman
The rest of the afternoon
During Meet and Greet Cocktail Hour
At the end of the first day
At the start of the second day, before Manuscript Mart with agent
During Manuscript Mart with agent
After Manuscript Mart with agent, when I learned that my novel requires more revision …
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During lunch
That night
Monday, at home, all day
Tuesday
Today
The Tin House Podcast: Episode #9 »
In our ninth adventure, Aimee Bender and Steve Almond—both the offspring of therapists—discuss how and why less experienced writers manage to sabotage their own fiction. Among the topics covered are: simplicity phobias, the artistic unconscious, OMD (obsessive metaphor disorder), fear of emotional exposure, prose envy, and obfuscation in the service of the id. Yeah! All this, plus Aimee Bender reads Cormac McCarthy.
The Tin House House Podcast: Cheaper than a shrink & less likely to make you hate your mother.
They had me at “Aimee Bender reads Cormac McCarthy.”
